Nelly's Garden

It is four weeks today since Rusty gave me a knee injury. I thought I'd gotten away with it but it was not to be. I now have a 'hi...

Bert and I have just come back from a short break in Donegal. We weren't on our own. We had four dogs, the Banjos and Swisser as well....

I am trying something new in my ongoing personal quest to reprogramme my brain.  It is this - when thoughts, such as these, pop into my mind...

You Are 40% Left Brained, 60% Right Brained The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reas...

So I accquired one of these new-fangled smart phones. A young friend was upgrading and I remarked if he was thinking of selling his old one ...

There is so much comment spam coming to this blog that I am considering moderating comments. It is not a step that I want to take but I'...

It was last September when Rusty first knocked me off my feet and he has went and gone and did it again. I was carrying a gigantic bucket o...

This Saturday past was my mother's second anniversary. I chose to fill it with friends. The day went past. I spoke to a number of my s...

While Nelly blogs, Bert makes the supper. Tonight we are having poached egg on toast with a side dish of grilled tomatoes and sa...

Fanad , originally uploaded by NellyMoser . If you should happen to be looking for me this weekend I'll probably be on a dander to ...

Last week was for pondering and gardening. Writing? Not so much. A week ago Mrs Thatcher popped her clogs which made for a lot of disc...

It is probably ten years or more since I lumped Margaret Thatcher, the Queen, Matty, Pearlie and Ian Paisley together as a cohort. I banded ...

Bert is opening and banging shut all the cupboard doors looking for 'something nice'. He lives in hope that fairies come to our hous...

A thing I have noticed as I have grown older is that the friends Nellybert have now are good people, people to cherish, people to care about...

Bert had been cleaning and levelling the sand beds in the polytunnel. He stood back to admire his work. Look at that! Smooth or ...

When Pearlie first came to live with us she wanted a whistle. She knew there was one somewhere in her hoard but, despite her niece's...

Bert has been away for a couple of nights. He's been to a concert in Dublin and is due back today. I have been doing his morning and eve...

Bert and I went to visit Peter a couple of days ago. Peter is a guy who, after he retired, took a plot of land at our last place (Clint'...

I have made Matty a home made Mother's Day card this year. I have made it out of pictures of her with some of the people that she lov...

I went to the Fanad peninsula in Donegal over the weekend with Miss Martha, Miss Evie, their parents and Judy. We stayed in a caravan ju...