drcosgrovewrites.bsky.social
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Dr Raymond Cosgrove, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (EMERITUS) at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, BA (Oxon), PhD (Wales).
Read my memoirs - which are not at all self-justifying nonsense here: https://substack.com/@cosgrovewrites
Read my memoirs - which are not at all self-justifying nonsense here: https://substack.com/@cosgrovewrites
Being 2m tall is a mild disability with few perks. cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/on-being-t...
On being tall
Wherein I explain how being 6' 6'' has impacted my life (mostly badly)
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January 31, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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."
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/the-wilder...
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/the-wilder...
The Wilderness Years (part 1)
Wherein I recount my Christmas Day spent at the local homeless shelter
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January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
"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."
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/the-wilder...
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/the-wilder...
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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My parents
Wherein I describe the loving relationship between my impractical father, Edmund, and my German mother, Eva.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
My parents were very fond of each other, even if this was often expressed across large geographical distances or long periods of tense silence.
substack.com/@cosgrovewri...
substack.com/@cosgrovewri...
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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cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/life-on-th...
Life on the front line of academia
Wherein I dispel myths about the supposedly cozy life of a university lecturer
cosgrovewrites.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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...
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/life-on-th...
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...
cosgrovewrites.substack.com/p/unpromisin...
Unpromising beginnings
Wherein I wonder if my birthdate was some sort of bad joke
cosgrovewrites.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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...
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.
open.substack.com/pub/cosgrove...
open.substack.com/pub/cosgrove...
If my memoirs are published and no one reads them do they still have an impact?
Wherein I explain why my memoirs are very interesting and important via a famous philosophical question.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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.
open.substack.com/pub/cosgrove...
open.substack.com/pub/cosgrove...