ancestral roofs

This is silly, but when we took Power and Sail Squadron courses a decade ago, one subject that was drilled into our land-lubber heads was ...

Not long ago, a regular Ancestral Roofs visitor dropped a line, asking permission to use a photo. She painted a lovely picture of her brea...

Victorian visiting etiquette. I've learned a bit about the formalities, and about many other aspects of Victorian life, during my vol...

Lincoln Cathedral is visible from everywhere Pretty much daily, I make up my mind to cancel my Facebook account, to stop the daily flood...

The architecture classic  The Old Stones of Kingston (Margaret Angus, U of T Press, 1966) contains a fascinating account of three commercial...

Ah, you remember. Limericks. Bits of doggerel, appealing for their particular rhyming pattern and rhythm. Anyone could write them. Bit of...

Remember that line from the story of Aladdin? A nefarious sorcerer tricks Aladdin's wife into exchanging their battered old magic lamp f...