#bill bryson

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Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot.

-- Bill Bryson

(Schaffhausen, Switzerland)

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Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods

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Have you read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)?

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Voting ended onJun 21

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“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.” ― Bill Bryson

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A quote

In case you still wonder why we don't have more sightings, pics and juicy stories about SC:

'Years ago I lived next door to Ringo Starr and for about six months didn’t know it. This was during a comparatively short period in my life when my wife and I lived in a row of old labourers’ cottages in Sunningdale, in Berkshire, and when I say ‘next door’ I mean that our back fence backed on to Ringo’s estate. Ringo’s house was hundreds of yards away up a grassy slope and hidden from view by trees, but it was still in the strict sense next door. I learned that Ringo was the owner of the estate from our neighbor Dougie, who lived, in the more traditional sense, next door.

‘I’m surprised you haven’t seen him around,’ Dougie said. ‘He’s often in the Nag’s Head. Nice chap.’

I went home and said to my wife: ‘Guess who lives in the big house on the hill?’

‘Ringo Starr,’ she said.

‘You knew?’

‘Of course. We see him all the time around here. I stood behind him in the ironmonger’s the other day. He was buying a hammer. Nice man. He said hi.’

‘Ringo Starr said hi to you? A Beatle said hi to you?’

‘He’s not really a Beatle any more.’

I ignored this, of course.

‘The Beatle Ringo Starr bought a hammer in our local hardware store and said hi to you and you didn’t think to tell me.’

‘It was just a hammer,’ she said.

This is the problem with the British. They all have stories like this.'

(Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling, 2015)

And in case you still wonder, that is not a novel. That is a travelogue. Charming book and an easy read, by the way. Warmly recommended.

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Part two of yesterday's book haul, this time from Goodwill! Big Bad Wool alone would have made the day a success ❤️

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