About Maddie

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Maddie Grigg is the pen name of magazine columnist and former journalist Margery Hookings, a wild child born in 1960s Somerset, with feet in the present but eyes to the future.

She loves landscape, nature, travel, comedy, kindness and The Open University and hates injustice, bigots, cotton wool and offal.

You can follow Maddie/Margery on Twitter @maddiegrigg,  Facebook and Instagram.

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