Shelley's House

Well, I don't actually have a jewellery box. That is to say I have several, but nothing that comes close to holding all my swag. Like my...

I still, after 20+ years, get confused about what to call things. I alternate between calling my 'handbag' (what seems a rather old-...

I made my first ever homemade rose hip syrup last autumn. It was dead easy. But first a bit of background. The Robert Redford film, Jere...

If you've never read The Time Paradox , by Philip Zimbardo and Jim Boyd, I can recommend it. Perhaps I should warn British readers i...

So, it's a different picture this year as I decided to boycott Amazon for  a) selling Trump family products  b) having a reputation...

I have a whole raft* of ideas for traditions, old and new, in 2018. The first is to honour my Southern roots in the US by eating black-...