Nelly's Garden

Happy Birthday Vancouver Brother. He's barely a day older looking than in the picture but, he tells me, his reading choices have move...

Today is my mother's birthday. She would have been 86 years old.

The Jersey Giant hen that survived the fox attack last Sunday is, by far, the largest of all our chickens. That poor thing has had such a t...

Foxy invaded the hen run this evening. Bert heard the commotion and got a glimpse of him running off. At first we thought he'd made off ...

Young Ben thinks Pearlie is perfectly charming and she thinks the same about him. I think my mother-in-law is a witch and not in a good wa...

I received this in greeting card form many moons ago. This, I believe, entitles me to rob it off the internet. If you do not find it amu...

 I went to a funeral today. It was the second in just over three weeks. Both funerals were for middle-aged men who had been ill for a lo...

I dreamed a strange one in those half-awake hours in the light of early morning. I was a soldier coming and going from a war. We were a sm...

After a long and sustained campaign the unfortunate dog Lennox, allegedly a pit bull type, was humanely put to sleep this morning. In ...

strawberry patch , originally uploaded by NellyMoser . This time last year there were strawberries.

Last weekend I went to Leitrim and Sligo with London Sister and I forgot my camera. I remembered to bring the charger but that wasn't ...

I happened to mention to Bert that I was feeling tired. He said, If you're tired all the time how do you know you are tired? What...

There was a documentary on tonight about the murder of Shirley Finlay in Ballymena in 2006. It was strange and chilling to see the events r...

Well. Charlie died. He was killed on the road near to the entrance of our lane. Last night, just before midnight I let all three of ou...

Pineapples for pigs Twice a week Rusty and Lily get a delivery of fruit and vegetables  from a local greengrocery. The food is slight...

Daddy died, seven years ago, a few weeks before Father's Day. I remember feeling furious when I saw all the Father's Day advertis...

Pearlie is unhappy with newly prescribed analgesic patches. Said they were itchy. I said, "Do you prefer agony or itchiness?" She ...

I am wearing a tree. Despite its horizontal stripes it still has the happy effect of slimming my silhouette. Unfortunately it can be rath...

Even though he is castrated Rusty has a set of tusks on him that are as sharp as knives. Picture courtesy of El Capitan Charlie the ...

Rare photograph of the Kerry Sister holding a cat. These days her head explodes if she comes within a yard of one. Happy birthday. Sis....