tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.comments2021-12-01T11:46:32.902+00:00The Bill Bryson BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-59163034693182368052011-01-11T17:12:05.261+00:002011-01-11T17:12:05.261+00:00Would you happen to know how I could get ahold of ...Would you happen to know how I could get ahold of Bill so that I could email him about his book<br /><br />~Steph<br />soklad@hotmail.com<br />http://fortheluvofsanity.blogspot.comPain SUXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04601811697473491555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-35361162229013696582010-12-05T23:09:25.891+00:002010-12-05T23:09:25.891+00:00I loved this book too. Incredibly interesting and ...I loved this book too. Incredibly interesting and full of fascinating stories. A couple of thoughts regarding unanswered questions in the book: could the mystery third canister/castor on the dining table have contained sugar? Later in the book, you mention that the British adored sugar and used it on practically everything including savory items. Possibly the reason that castor sugar was so named. Secondly, regarding the question of why the early English didn't use the already built Roman houses and preferred to build their own more primitive homes, could it have been the fear of infection from a contagious disease such as smallpox that still resided in the buildings? Perhaps that's why the Romans deserted England so quickly and left behind much of their life. Could the new settlers have known of the danger? Just some ideas...The Traveling Bastards Travel and Food Bloghttp://www.travelingbastards.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-48079414956977307422010-11-20T04:18:46.867+00:002010-11-20T04:18:46.867+00:00A glaring error is the comment that Pepys diaries ...A glaring error is the comment that Pepys diaries were held at the Bodlean Library, Oxford, whereas they are housed at the famous Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where Pepys was a student.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-59911065040040260882010-11-04T19:10:34.871+00:002010-11-04T19:10:34.871+00:00This is really a nice post. Obviously, you are put...This is really a nice post. Obviously, you are putting a lot of hard work on your blog. I'm sure I'd come back here more often.Online Book Summaryhttp://onlinebooksummary.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-33970491300705622332010-10-29T17:49:43.473+01:002010-10-29T17:49:43.473+01:00Dear Mr Bryson Sir, It is not to late to start fro...Dear Mr Bryson Sir, It is not to late to start from the beginning. You can begin your career and develop a new family all over again, especially with the bruises and knocks you have picked up producing all those books and posing as an academic. You are now shaped for action. Your best years are probably lie ahead. Your great supporter here at the southern tip of Africa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-27889488496338931782010-10-20T13:02:36.790+01:002010-10-20T13:02:36.790+01:00The most interesting about travel is that the plac...The most interesting about travel is that the places / hotels / restaurants that everyone agrees are fantastic, are often not so fantastic.But your writing makes us to travel to different places. Very cool blog, very organized.Hotels near Union squarehttp://www.hojosfo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-90026300841455221852010-10-20T05:23:36.313+01:002010-10-20T05:23:36.313+01:00Traveling gives us lots of enjoyments and we can g...Traveling gives us lots of enjoyments and we can get relaxation from our busy schedule. You have written all the things very nicely and I must say that you love traveling.Orient Express Tripshttp://www.orientexpresstrips.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-90602984540457247372010-10-05T13:32:24.604+01:002010-10-05T13:32:24.604+01:00Bill h2o is a 'molecule' of 2 hydrogen ato...Bill h2o is a 'molecule' of 2 hydrogen atoms and a 1 oxygen atom. Check your book on atoms and electrons. I'm not a scientist but thats been known for yonks. If i've missinterpreted your definition please email me. fmnield@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-77883341644532164512010-09-17T08:06:37.424+01:002010-09-17T08:06:37.424+01:00Just got back from a trek out to Boise myself, and...Just got back from a trek out to Boise myself, and yeah, it's all label's Thou Traffic Keep Left there. Considering the onramps have no accel lanes and that the ramps are relatively short on both sides of the exits, it<br />makes sense to me.Station taxihttp://www.stationcars.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-38766093915574339442010-07-22T06:34:33.426+01:002010-07-22T06:34:33.426+01:00I loved this book, we have a signed copy which the...I loved this book, we have a signed copy which the whole family has read. My review of it is up <a href="http://bristolbookworm.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/at-home-bill-bryson/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />- Bristol BookwormAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882583794751779486.post-62656547848254865602010-06-19T19:31:22.071+01:002010-06-19T19:31:22.071+01:00Dreadfully written book full of lazy mistakes. He...Dreadfully written book full of lazy mistakes. Here is just a small selection of those I found:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />87 “…when she [Mrs Beeton] died of puerpal fever”<br />Mrs. Beeton died of tertiary syphilis, having been infected with this on her wedding night by her husband Sam, who was a notorious libertine. <br /><br />P109 “5 Great Cheyne Row”<br />No such address exists or has ever existed. The Carlyles lived at 5 Cheyne Row. There is an Upper Cheyne Row but no Great Cheyne Row.<br /><br />P 112 – 113<br />On 112, Pepys’ diary is said to cover 9 ½ years, and on 113, only 8 ½ years <br /><br />P 116 “At the bottom of the servant heap were laundrymaids”<br />Laundering may have been thankless but it wasn’t unskilled. Because of the processes described on this page and the following, laundrymaids generally had to undertake specific training and were usually highly qualified in their field. The lowest female servant in the 18th and 19th centuries was the scullerymaid, or in more modest households, the maid-of-all-work. <br /><br />P168 “..where he built a 154-foot tower”. <br />Beckford’s Tower is 120 feet tall cf: http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/index.php?id=39<br /><br />P 178 “Traditional cruet stands came with …three matching casters”<br />There is no tradition for the number of casters and bottles in a cruet set. <br /><br />P 191 “five domesticated creatures”<br />The deer was widely domesticated in Mesoamerica, bringing the above total to six<br /><br />P275 “he [Bridgeman] designed and laid out Stowe..” <br />The gardens at Stowe pre-date Bridgeman by a good 15 years, although no trace of anything pre-Bridgeman survives. <br /><br />P 277 “bedding plants”<br />The concept of mass planting of brightly coloured annual plants shortly before they flower was completely unknown in 18th century England, as were the plants themselves. Even the term itself is a Victorian neologism <br /><br />P282 “Both were the sons of tenant farmers”<br />There is no evidence to suggest that either the fathers of Lancelot Brown or Joseph Paxton were tenant farmers. Brown’s antecedents are completely unknown, there in no mention of Paxton Senior’s name in either the rent books for the Woburn Estate or in the land tax records of the area. It is therefore considerably unlikely that Paxton Senior was a farmer of any kind, more likely a common labourer. <br /><br />“..and so he acquired his famous nickname”.<br />Unfortunately an urban myth. In the estate records for Stowe, Lord Cobham refers to Brown several times as “the very capable Mr. Brown”. In any case, “capability” merely means the quality of being capable, and landscapes are not individually capable. <br /><br />P285 “Just as Capability Brown was rejecting flowers…”<br />It is commonly supposed that England during the 18th century was devoid of flowers. Mark Laird’s “The Flowering of the Landscape Garden” proves conclusively that this was not so. Brown himself designed flower gardens, notably at Brocklesby Hall in Lincolnshire, plans of which are reproduced in Laird. <br /><br />289 “description of a steam lawnmower”<br />The machine actually described is a “steam plough” which I suppose one might call a tractor. <br /><br />294 “municipal park – Birkenhead”<br />Birkenhead Park didn’t open until 1847, four years after Loudon’s death. <br /><br />P389 “…the neighbourhood around Broad Street”<br />There is no Broad Street in Soho. The correct address is Broadwick Street.Russell Boweshttp://www.capabilitybowes.comnoreply@blogger.com