Nelly's Garden

So. Matty's eighth anniversary came and went and I was really miserable. It wasn't just the anniversary, it was remembering that...

At this time of the year dandelions are in their full flush of flowering. This is the time to make dandelion wine if one is so incli...

It is a really lovely morning and I'm pottering around waiting for the first of the happy campers to emerge from the wood. All the do...

It's fifty years today since Bernadette Devlin was elected to parliament as the member for Mid Ulster. She was 21 years old. I was a...

Yet another freezing day. Apparently, this blustery chill wind is coming from Scandinavia. It is to ease tomorrow. My Irish grandchildren ar...

Well, here I am exhausted again, the result of two days and nights of socialising with the Banjo clan who mostly all talk at once and then a...

The weekend plan worked out well except Saturday turned out to be a very fine day so tiling was abandoned in favour of gardening. We st...

These days, weekends don't mean that much. Every day, excepting Monday and Thursday, is the weekend for me. Nevertheless, I have pla...

This blog post is a steal from Ganching for I really do need some inspiration to keep this blog on the road. You do know that this Brexit s...

The dog wakes me up almost every day. Which dog? Sometimes it is Judy who pads into my bedroom and bumps me with her cold nose. Sometimes it...

I spent a couple of hours weeding and tidying in the polytunnel and found this bee lying on its back, too tired and spent to fly away. I ...

Spring's here. Which is, I suppose, a good thing. The clocks will soon go forward, the evenings will be longer and there are seeds ...

Sometimes life seems far too sad and serious to just, y’know, blog… There was New Zealand. Thoughts and prayers obviously. Except I th...

My second conversation with a strange one took place outside the restrooms in Marks and Spencer. We'd been to the rally, taken the girls...

On Saturday I went to Belfast with Zoe, Martha and Evie to take part in an International Women's Day rally. Three generations of one fam...

For several months now I've been reading 10-12 books simultaneously. I was inspired to do this by Will Self, who in answer to the questi...

I struggle these days with Nelly's Garden. Two recent posts have discouraged me. The most recent was A Bit Of A Siege in which I describ...

It was Bert who I first heard using the expression 'a siege' to describe a situation that was somewhat fraught. It must be a Norther...

I said to Bert the other day, We'll need to get those worktops off the floor before Frank comes. You know he'll piss himself sill...

At The Minute I got back from three nights in Amsterdam on Wednesday and, honestly, it's taken this long to regain my equilibrium. The...