Nelly's Garden

It’s been a while. I took a trip. For eight days I was in Wales with my sister. She drove from London while I flew to Cardiff. I’ve been bac...

    When we first introduced nepeta, or catmint, to our garden, the intention was to bring pleasure to our cats Fred and Holly, and it certa...

  One from June 2016. I was right about Brexit and wrong about Trump. He has turned out even more of a disaster than I feared. Sorry Reader....

Appreciating nature.  Sure, there’s not much else to do when you’re standing in the mud beside a stream, making sure the cows don’t escape a...

  I dreamed I stole a little pig that wore clothes. Not on his nether regions of course as that would be impractical, just a little jacket a...

It's my father's 21st anniversary today and it occurred to me that when he died I was almost exactly the same age as my oldest daugh...

I really should have posted this a few weeks ago because the apple blossom has fallen from the trees and, if successfully pollinated, the fr...