Bill Bryson moved back to the UK
 

Hi
On my recent trip I took along for light reading the Bryson book "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" which chronicled the first few years of his return to living in the USA after living in the UK for twenty years. (He is a native of Iowa.)

I've just learned that about a year ago (?) he moved back to the UK, after 7-8 years in the USA. I guess this is old news, just wondering if anyone else here is a Bryson fan and knows the details. This is purely idle curiosity.

Yes, I have read & enjoyed several of his books. I think I even read one twice; they don't exactly stick with you. Well, nothing exactly sticks with me these days.

Unsure of the details, but he's turning into something of a miserable git.

He summarised his first 12 months back here in a one-pager in The Spectator (the British liberal-Thatcherism -cum-snobbery weekly). The kind of endless whinge I thought we'd seen the last of when we tried (and thought we'd succeded) to get all the whingers to migrate to Australia.

The impression I got was that Mrs B wanted decent weather.

uh excuse me but I find the phrase
" liberal-Thatcherism " to be an oxymoron

Thanks to Flanner's reference, I just read the The Spectator article and don't see the "miserable git" and "endless whinge" that Flanner does. It's the same old Bryson, just not quite as funny, gently mocking English eccentricities and American responses to them.

hi ron
I tried doing a Spectator search for the article, wasn't successful.
Could you provide the URL?
thanks

elaine, go to www.spectator.co.uk, enter Bryson in the search box and they take you to the clickable March 6 article title. You have to register to actually access the article.