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= The Chimping Dandy (blog) = The Chimping Dandy is a UK based humour blog that debuted in November 2012. It provides commentaries detailing the authors skewed visions of everyday life and comical episodes from his past. New posts are usually released at lunchtimes (GMT) and are usually written over the course of an hour.

Subtitle: Amusing outpourings, off-colour rantings, ill conceived monologues and in-depth postmortems of things that are still alive.

Creator
The author of the blog is Rob Grimes, a native of Derby, in the UK - Although, as part of the blog's mythos, Grimes claims that the blog is actually written and curated by 'Seedy' the evil, time stopping Pangolin that features on all of the blog's advertising and other media. The name Seedy is taken from an acronym of the blog's title. Seedy is usually portrayed as having the letters 'C' and 'D' set in diamonds on his left thumb and was originally sketched as a doodle in a lined notepad (All existing pictures of Seedy are taken from this original, with one important exception).

Content
The blog covers various seemingly random subjects, ranging from reminiscences of unusual experiences that Grimes has taken part in, through short fictional stories, to opinion pieces designed often to present serious topics from a slanted point of view that aims to inject humour and lampoon the subject matter.

Books
Three books have been produced in both paperback and Kindle format that collect the most popular posts from the site. These were published via Amazon's Createspace Self-publishing service to multiple, favourable reviews from the public.

Crossovers
Posts from The Chimping Dandy have been featured on other popular blogs, such as Post-40 Bloggers (A platform for more mature Internet users to display their varied viewpoints) and Squid Inc (A site that specialises in representing new and unpublished authors and advertising their work)

Grimes has been interviewed by his local newspaper, The Derby Telegraph, about the blog and the associated books, detailing his rise from commenting on Facebook, via blogging, to being a self-published author, and the main stimulus behind it.

The Future
A selection of the fiction stories that were originally written for the blog have been collected together, developed and expanded into a three-volume science fiction saga which is currently in progress. The first volume: Child of Air, is complete and awaiting publication. The second: Child of Space, is at the manuscript stage (as of January 2016), with volume three: Child of Earth, to follow in 2017.