@drcosgrovewrites
Dr Raymond Cosgrove, 83. Former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Aberystwyth. Currently explaining why persistent claims that I am a bad husband, mediocre academic, and racist are entirely unfounded. https://substack.com/@cosgrovewrites
Whenever I see the GP I always make sure to address them as “Mr” rather than “Dr”. It’s a small but important way of showing them where they stand in the academic pecking order.
Those of us who did bother to get a PhD should not see our titles devalued in this way.
The arrival of my second child was not a revolutionary occurrence. This partly explains why I have ninety-five photos of Damian below the age of two, but only three of Abigail.
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The arrival of my second child was not a revolutionary occurrence. This partly explains why I have ninety-five photos of Damian below the age of two, but only three of Abigail.
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Top tips for organising a funeral:
- Bargain with the undertakers. Heavy discounts on caskets, flowers etc. are available for the persistent.
- Invest in a warm buffet. A cold buffet will give impression that the deceased was tight-fisted.
-Be aware of the possibility of funeral gate-crashers.
It was rotten luck that my son, Damian, was born shortly after the release of the film The Omen.
“Here, you can see your son being born – have a look,” he said. Reader, I did so, and in all honesty, neither my sexual relations with Pauline, nor my attitude towards public transport ever fully recovered.
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I witnessed the arrival of my son via the wing-mirror of a bus.
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He said "you couldn’t make an omelette without breaking eggs”. I pressed him to point out which of us in the room were eggs and which were not in this scenario. He replied by saying, rather pointedly, that “Egg-heads would certainly count as eggs.”
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Being born on April Fool's Day led to many unwanted pranks. As a teenager, I was gifted a large envelope stuffed full of banknotes; unfortunately, they were Hungarian pengö, which following a period of hyper-inflation, had become completely worthless.
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Sharing a urinal with Melvyn Bragg was a complex experience.
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Being 2m tall is a mild disability with few perks. cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/on-being-t...
"Here I was sitting in the corridor of a shabby townhouse in a mediocre Welsh city, masturbating disconsolately, while a rotund Iranian looked on."
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"Here I was sitting in the corridor of a shabby townhouse in a mediocre Welsh city, masturbating disconsolately, while a rotund Iranian looked on."
substack.com/@cosgrovewri...
Being 2m tall is a mild disability with few perks. cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/on-being-t...
"I learned that Alan had been married and divorced three times, Demi-John’s wife had left him due to his alcoholism and Larkey’s wife had disappeared mysteriously just before he was imprisoned for murder."
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My parents were very fond of each other, even if this was often expressed across large geographical distances or long periods of tense silence.
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He said "you couldn’t make an omelette without breaking eggs”. I pressed him to point out which of us in the room were eggs and which were not in this scenario. He replied by saying, rather pointedly, that “Egg-heads would certainly count as eggs.”
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/life-on-th...
Sharing a urinal with Melvyn Bragg was a complex experience.
substack.com/@cosgrovewri...
Being born on April Fool's Day led to many unwanted pranks. As a teenager, I was gifted a large envelope stuffed full of banknotes; unfortunately, they were Hungarian pengö, which following a period of hyper-inflation, had become completely worthless.
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/unpromisin...
My memoirs offer episodes and commentary other, more egotistical or deluded writers, might have omitted. I do not shy away from topics such as sex, drugs or being of above average height.
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