Nelly's Garden

This post refers to events that happened in the late 1960s so almost ancient history. Father Davey, the Parish Priest of Antrim during my ch...

  First thing in the morning I let Cleo out for morning pees and poos. Delighted to say that it is more than 50 hours since she has performe...

  There was more birthday cake yesterday when the girls were here for supper. Rhubarb and Almond cake, a new one for me. I thought it was a ...

Northern Ireland is currently experiencing Summer Time and I have been making hay while the sun shines, or sort of... I have been weeding, s...

For the third year running I attended Garden Show Ireland in Antrim's delightful Castle Grounds. The first year I went on my own. But fo...

Katy and family left to return to Norfolk this morning and I would be bereft if it were not for knowing that they had a wonderful wee holida...

Today I met up  with Grannymar for a coffee and a stroll around the Castle Grounds in Antrim. It's been six years since we had a real l...

Zoe, the girls and Granny went to Garden Show Ireland at the Castle Grounds in Antrim. I went last year on my own and enjoyed it very much. ...

A very fine day befitting a bank holiday. I did a tiny bit of gardening and took a 17 minute walk and was exhausted. Guess this virus is sti...

I have had a busy few days. On Friday I went to Garden Show Ireland at the Castle Grounds in Antrim where I heard a very interesting talk b...

So that is St Patrick's Day and Mother's Day over for another year. We had a few friends around last night and the talk came round...

Day 2 in the Matty house . You'd be sitting there and suddenly a Marie Curie nurse would come bouncing in and say, I'm here from hal...

After I’d spent three miserable years at St Louis ’ Convent my parents relented and allowed me to leave after the third year. It’s very like...

You know by the time I’ve driven Matty on this errand and that errand I could have taken her to Dublin and back. Today I would have liked to...

Naturally enough Hannah is not that keen on living in the wilds of Cullybackey under the intolerant and harsh regime that is Nellybert's...