Shelley's House

These lovely new houses are striking in several respects. One is that they sit on a cliff that overlooks the river. Another is that they ...

We walk along here quite often – at least once or twice a week – much as we do past the Castle and the Priory. It’s almost a reflex action i...

I had a couple of items to pick up in North Shields and I invited Bill for the walk. We took the straight way there, but the scenic way home...

When I was a child in Oklahoma City I loved secret hideaway places, many of them probably quite unsafe: up in the huge elm trees in our back...

I haven’t written specifically about anything frugal lately, though I would hope that all the reading and walking that goes on here exemplif...

I noticed a funny smell in the East Wing the other day.  I checked the iron, but it was cool.  Then I noticed that the screen on the PC no l...

I’ve fallen off my posting schedule again, I know.  First of all my computer decided it didn’t want to know about the Internet any more; Bil...