Moab Is My Washpot that Fry was reunited with "Osborne" after the publication of the book: How did he take it? "Very well. He is very happily married with children. A wonderful chap and hugely successful as it happens," Fry chuckles, incredulous. "I think his wife knows because she is extremely friendly to me in a way that suggests to me she knows all about it and is very happy with it. I see him a couple of times a year, I suppose." Moab Is My Washpot Moab Is My Washpot (published 1997) is Stephen Fry's autobiography, covering the first 20 years of his
Moab Is My Washpot Jo Wood (his best friend at Uppingham), and Oliver Derwent (a prefect who "seduces" Fry). The title, never explained in the text of the book, is a verse found in and . Through wearing sandals, people's feet would become filthy in the dusty desert environment and upon entering a home feet would be washed with water by pouring water over them into a washpot. Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and so became likened to a wash pot or basin. This title was selected because Fry saw the book as "scrubbing at the grime of