Nelly's Garden

Saturday night Bert told me he’d got a great circular walk planned for the next day. Where? Other side of Clough. How long?...

Today started well. I woke up at quarter past seven and immediately thought, bloody hell - got to get up in twenty minutes for work. My deli...

I've just checked my most recent Google referrals to Nelly's Garden. They are - 1. Eccentric Crones: How appropriate 2. Extrapolate:...

These pictures taken during the Sarkozy state visit to Britain made me smile. Old Philip, in his 87th year, is still as much of an oul rake ...

We have four roosters. Their names are Little Plum, Mervyn, The One That Everybody Hates and The Other One. For a while we could hardly tell...

Chickens - 6, Weight lost since 02/07/07 - 44 lbs I'm sure that most of you read blogs via Google reader or somesuch application and, co...

But she didn't get it yesterday morning. And there were none left in Antrim Tesco when we were doing the Thursday night shop. Was it the...

Matty aged ten , originally uploaded by NellyMoser . If only I knew one. This is me ma aged ten or so. You wouldn't want to ha...

You Are 36% Lady And 64% Pure Savage You tend to make up your rules of etiquette, throwing all conventions aside. And while you try to be a ...

Hi fans. Paddy here. I disremember the actual day I was pupped but, like Queenie, I have an official birthday and it is this very day - St P...

On Friday evening I received a surprise visit (and a bunch of flowers) from a young woman I'd last seen in a courthouse nearly fifteen y...

He's changing. He's not as ruggedly masculine as he used to be. I hope it's not an ageing thing for he's not even 50 yet! Fi...

No. Not that TV series most of us have grown very tired of... The lost item in question is actually my mobile phone. The mobile phone Katy b...

This morning I said to Hannah, Let’s eat from the freezer tonight. That means we eat something already cooked that has been put by...

Slough of Despond - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity Just right now ...

...and, as always, two kinds of cake. The cassoulet recipe was adapted (roughly) from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's meat book. It was ...

Well maybe not exactly the last minute but at around ten to midnight last night I asked Bert to marry me and he said yes. I wonder how he...

I got into housework last night. It all started when a bottle of washing up liquid spilled over my Lidls shopping and I had to wash my groce...

That would be Rosie. Me? I'm the Hag of the Mournes. Bert, Rosie and I had a great time staying at Hanna's Close . We stayed in the ...

It's been a hectic few days what with the Scrabulous tourney, work and life in general. Tonight I'm trying to finish off a few games...