Nelly's Garden

Trip to Waterfoot contd . The Terrace, Waterfoot was built in the late 1860s. Nine cottages constructed with local limestone they were ...

Would you just look at that! The finest of fine late Autumn days. There was some talk today about Clint bringing the digger over to lev...

I'm well on my way to making digital copies of all my photographs. Doing so brings back lots of memories but sometimes I can't remem...

Around this time last year, I was worrying about the rise of racist attitudes that were becoming more prevalent, even among people that I kn...

Wansn't the best of weather but today I hung out with eleven people and nine dogs. We began at the People's Park in Ballymena, ...

It's two months today until one of my favourite days of the year, St Stephen's Day - the day Stupid Christmas is over. I can't w...

Garlic is all planted and chilli jam finished. That's good. Found a delightful half china tea set in a Ballymena charity shop for £5. ...

It was my intention to write a longer blog post this evening but life, in the form of entertaining visitors, got in the way. Other things ...

Cannonstown, late 50s, Two cousins born on the same day. Antrim, 2012, feeding the ducks. Two cousins together for the last time. ...

While Bert was strangely unperturbed about being one-third Scandinavian (he doesn't like Ikea but loves a pickled herring) he was utterl...

Bert's DNA results arrived and gave me quite a shock. He was unperturbed, said it was, A lot of oul nonsense. But I've been rac...

One useful thing about being a long-term blogger and user of social media is that there is a record of all the important life events. Like, ...

Bert and I went out for breakfast this morning to a 'caff' in an industrial estate. Whilst waiting for the food I perused the local ...

Despite this strange lethargy I am currently experiencing I must,  I really must write my daily blog. The day began with a walk, ...

Next year's plot for growing garlic was chosen a few months ago and has been languishing under cardboard ever since. The cardboard came...

October flowering California poppy,  Eschscholzia californica   One pinch of seeds, one seed tray, perhaps two dozen plantlets, dotted...

  Chilean guava plant or Ugni molinae  Favourite fruit of Queen Victoria We have two small Chilean guava bushes, a gift from Les,...

Crabbit - Ireland and Scotland, from 'crabbed' meaning bad-tempered. Some time ago there was a regular column in The Guardian call...

Dr Leitrim Sister has left the building but, while she was here, we spent quality time together and ate a lot of cake. She is with our you...

Storm Callum came in the night, knocked over my hen feed bin, scattered the recycling bins (I had failed to return them to their proper plac...