Nelly's Garden

  I went to a wake last night for a family friend, the last of her generation. It was well attended, as she was a much loved woman from a we...

One very good reason why I have been neglecting this blog is because I've been getting out and about. Today Miss Martha and I hopped on ...

 Springhill, March 2026 Dear Reader, I am very sorry - very, very sorry that I have been neglecting you. The truth is Nelly's Garden is ...

  Enter Bert who comes out with this statement, I have to say, you shock me. Me, sewing my knitted blanket, What point are you making? I...

 I couldn’t remember whether Ash Wednesday is a Holy Day of Obligation or not. That’s how lapsed a Catholic I’ve become. I only realised it ...

 I don’t recall the day I took my last alcoholic drink but I do know it was towards the end of January last year and that drink would have b...

Twenty-one years ago, I was working in Mill House, Harryville, which at that time was a hostel for women temporarily without homes. We were ...