Nelly's Garden

 It's been an ordinary day. I woke up far too early, got up, went back to bed with coffee, then fell asleep again and had a crazy dream ...

I tried something new today. Spaghetti Bolognese. Spaghetti Bolognese! The dish that even students can make and that everyone else has been...

My two younger sisters and my niece are up visiting from Kerry and Leitrim respectively and yesterday we went to the Seamus Heaney Home P...

My mother was a bit of a hypochondriac, overly concerned with her health and I have always tried not to be but, as a body grows older it get...

I had an argument with Clint this afternoon and I didn't even know it was an argument until he stormed off in a state of high dudgeon. M...

Clear blue sky in the Botanic Gardens.  Miniature daffodils in Botanic Gardens, The McClay Library in background. Glorious...

There is a particular kind of child that I am very fond of and that is a child who has a morbid interest in dead and disgusting things....

The girls are here for a sleepover and earlier today Bert took them grocery shopping. We needed some special ingredients for a sweet making ...

First of all, I don't know for sure who the photographer was. The subjects are my mother, my brother and my brother's daughter ...

I had an email today from someone near Portglenone who wanted to know if I could recommend (or give) classes on wine-making. Naturally, I wa...

We had some really good news about Roy today. It's two weeks since he was had the balls lopped off and not only has that healed very wel...

Although the house in Drumkeeran was the place I thought of as ‘home’ I only lived there for a very short time. In 1978, when I was ex...

Roy had his operation today. Not on the growth as the vet is going to leave that alone for the moment. Instead, the old lad had his testicle...

It is a month now since I was in Norfolk and anxious that I would not carry the dreaded manflu to Katy and family. The very first night that...

Roy had his return visit to the vet's surgery today. The growth on his anus has not altered despite him having been on antibiotics for n...

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...

Not much blogging last week reason being that this damn Bert Flu really kicks in at night and that's when I usually sort Nelly's Gar...

The main thing I did on my holidays was fall madly in love with my fourth grandchild, Emily. She fell asleep on me a lot and there is a part...

At last, the morning of the big push to Norfolk. Achievements so far, Bought Guardian and paracetamol for the grievously sick husband. ...

Today was supposed to be a day of preparing for the Norfolk trip but instead it turned into a day of two breakfasts, a trip to Ballymena wit...