Welcome to Doug Shaw’s family website, by whatever route you arrived. Someone wrote recently that a family website, like a personal memoir, was an exercise in vanity.  There may be more than a little truth in that but having read the entries in my great grandmother’s penny notebook dated 1891 I had a wonderful sense of re-living history and wished that she had written more. So this site attempts to redress our ancestor's shortfall by providing a miscellany of fact and speculation covering a range of subjects and interests with which we have been involved over the years.  If you don’t wish to proceed further then Cheers anyway !

Penny is ten years and six months old,  an inveterate charmer and is thoroughly spoiled.  She has also had a forum on the internet for a number of years now and gets quite a lot of email.  She is in love with Rosie the cat next door.  Rosie has been brought up with dogs and so has absolutely no fear when the two confront one another in the garden.  Penny, for her part, is thoroughly bemused by this behaviour and so resorts to the age-old doggy maxim "When in doubt, lick it."  On the right is Rosie, lurking in the wisteria in the hope of meeting up with Penny or of befriending the birds who