Shelley's House

I've completed two projects in recent weeks. The 'discipline' of putting them on this blog has helped quite a bit. It makes me h...

Chanel Picture I thought bib necklaces were a recent innovation, but turns out they were big in the 1950s because of Dior's New Look w...

One of the most astonishing things (I'm trying to quit my 'amazing' habit - sick of the word!) we saw in Scarborough was the Sun...

You know what? I've never yet made any of Joanne's pies; it's entirely possible I never will. But I still think of her often, ...

As part of our wanderings around Scarborough we explored a bit of The Grand Hotel. There was some story about Bill's ex having stayed th...

Susan told us that jewellery design got a bit quirky after WWII.  For one thing, during the 1950s, jewellers began rolling gold into thin la...

We took the bus into Scarborough to go exploring. I had a list of streets with charity shops, but was open to whether or not that happened. ...