In 1990 spurred on by the success of his writing & his marriage to the writer Aileen Armitage Deric Longden made a momentous move to a foreign country. Huddersfield in Yorkshire with its distinctive manners & customs & its wealth of remarkable characters would surely provide him with all the material he needed for his planned book one of the great classics of travel literature. But two years later when he sat down to write the major events of everyday life kept intruding: the demands of a houseful of cats the problem of getting the cooker repaired the memories evoked by sorting through old clothes in the wardrobe.. . Still I'm a Stranger Here Myself" is a travel book of a kind where the most hilarious adventures can happen between the kitchen & the bathroom & where a morning's shopping can provide enough anecdotes to last a lifetime. Once again Deric Longden demonstrates his genius for taking the most ordinary materials of life & transforming them with his own special brand of gentle inspired humour."