As I blogged earlier, the last couple of weeks have been taken up with listening to Bill Bryson's "Notes from a Small Island" on CD (which reminds me that I need to take it back to the library)
Bill has a new book out which is on a Joe Moran-esque 'social history' theme.
The book is called "AT HOME" and is a social history of the objects that are found in our houses. Have just got it for half price - nice :)
Bill was in the news the other day as he was talking at the Hay festival, and talked about British culture.
Bill is a fellow resident of a small village in Norfolk (although I don't live in a former rectory)
(Also Springwatch started yesterday, and that's just down the road from us. It's all happening in Norfolk...)
I mentioned already the wealth of YouTube clips from Bryson's earlier series "Notes from a Small Island"
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An interesting text to have studied.
Just think of all those lost works in the lofts of the world.
I wonder what Bryson would have made of Sheffield...
He now lives about 20 minutes away from me in the same rural isolation