Nelly's Garden

Our last remaining kunekune pig died a few days ago, at the age of fifteen. Nellybert are no longer pigkeepers. We won’t be getting any more...

This has been a very sad day for all of us at Springhill. One of our Kune Kune pigs, Lily, had to be euthanised tonight. These past few mont...

I confess - I'm not that great a chicken-keeper. I do the best I can, keeping them fed, watered and clean.  They've got a big range ...

Granny! I've been reading your blog and you're wrong about Rusty and Lily's age. You said they were coming 12 this year and the...

Roy is on a course of antibiotics and does not like them. However, he is prepared to take them if I encase them in a thick layer of soft che...

Friday was our annual day trip to Portrush and although it was tiring I think we all enjoyed the outing. It's a family tradition. The gr...

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...

Rusty and Lily. Not on the menu...yet Tonight’s menu featured Pea and Ham Soup made from a recipe of my own devising, using split gre...

Another super day, literally not a cloud in the sky. I made great progress with my new perennial garden, with only a dozen or so more to pl...

My Flickr photograph with the second most views is this one of Rusty and Lily when they were very small indeed. They are nowhere near as...

Rusty got sick last weekend and at first we thought it was a return of the pneumonia that he suffered from when he was a little pig. We got ...

It was only the other day that I was hand-feeding that brute the choicest, sweetest dates that our local greengrocery could provide. You...

Sadly there is no video footage, nor are there any photographs. I know the first thing I'd have done was run back to the house for a cam...