Nelly's Garden

Swisser reckons I need a retreat - somewhere where me and my pigs and my dogs can go to hang out. A hut in the woods maybe, with a wood-burn...

I love this photograph. It was loaned to me by brother Joe who got the loan of it from cousin Joe and I am going to make a few copies of it ...

Matty's 84th birthday today. The picture shows her standing beside her new back door. It was taken at the beginning of the month. She is...

I was really looking forward to my wee lunchtime walk today because I've not been getting so many of them recently as I usually spend th...

Picture it. Yours truly is standing, waiting to be served, behind a tidy wee woman in the local shop (for local people.) This wee tidy...

I used to think it was cool when we took the dogs for a walk down the back lane and through the wood, that Holly de Cat would come too. Now ...

Happy to be in love , originally uploaded by KatyKatkins . Was my Katy not beautiful on her wedding day?

Bert said to me about ten days ago, Blackbirds and squirrels are getting into the strawberries. What! Didn't I tell you to put net...

Lidl's has the best cottage cheese in the world and I love cottage cheese. I'd run out and it was time to get some more. All I need...

Apparently kune kune pigs are easy to train if you start them young enough. I can see that I am going to have to take a very strict line wit...

You know the sort of things you say to your significant other that are meant to be between just the two of you? Like, "Oh for fuck'...

beekeeping , originally uploaded by NellyMoser . Bert and I just cannot wait to get out there and do a hive inspection. It's a be...

I really do believe that those carers are out to get me. All I asked of them was that they wouldn't leave wet pads in Pearlie's room...

Matty has been getting on pretty fine recently. Going out for drives, bossing everyone around (nicely), flower arranging, supervising the ho...

When Pearlie returned from her last respite break in The Wee Free Orange Home for Retired Gentlefolk she found, to her horror and mine, that...

I'd be in bed asleep right now. My rest was disturbed last night at around two am by Holly de Cat defending her territory from a strange...

Sometimes things just get on top of me. Work can be difficult sometimes, as it seems to me that my role includes soaking up all the responsi...

Bert was out at Matty's today fixing a leaky radiator. It's been quite a few weeks since he'd seen her so I wondered if he would...

When I first heard that Matty had cancer I was devastated. She was more pragmatic. I have to die of something you know. The firs...