Shelley's House

Romance is the theme for this month…probably something to do with weddings. Other than the very occasional Royal Wedding, I have to say that...

It's been a while since I studied my list of 100 influential women and so I want to pick that up again.  In the next batch of five, as t...

Bill’s cousin has an amazing house.  I'm told it was once a colliery house, built for a coal miner’s family.  Now, I've seen collier...

Then there is the River Ouse (Yorkshire). Apparently there is more than one Ouse; not surprising as it means 'water'. ...

The big thing about York is its walls and bars;  bar walls - that is, to say that the entrances through the walls are called bars , ie Mickl...

This is my birthday party in 1960. The stringy-haired blonde kid is me. The grown up lady is my Aunt Rita. She would have been just shy o...

So what else is there to see and do in York? Well, there is Betty's . Bill ordered the ‘house tea’(I learned something new there) and...