Nelly's Garden

Bringing in the hay always used to be a fun time. Old style balers, old style oblong bales, stacked in nines and as many hands as possib...

A shortie with photies. Nellybert took the dogs for a walk on the beach at the gloriously, beautiful Whitepark Bay and Bert used his backpa...

Early summer is usually a very positive time for me what with longer days, warmer weather,  growing things and observing wildlife. It's ...

Wednesday: On this day I was supposed to keep Hannah company as she travelled a job interview in a far away town. This was cancelled due...

Today was interesting, at least what passes for interesting in the Nellybert household, for I had Things To Do. The first thing was the purc...

It's almost fit to be seen. Just need the pictures up, the cat's footprints on the sills sandpapered and retouched and an oven ...

Bert and Ben spent most of the weekend building a garden shed for Jazzer. They make a good team. Meanwhile, Marty finished painting the kitc...

I spoke to my GP this morning. She is a brisk lady and I like her yet if I meet her outside the doctor/patient sphere I generally pretend no...

The trip to deepest, darkest Norfolk went well. My daughter's house is currently a building site as they are having an extension buil...

All being well, this time tomorrow I will be in deepest, darkest Norfolk where I am intending to spend a few days with Katy and family. I...

Big birthday for Bert today. As is traditional, the birthday cake was served on the Monday closest to the special day, so yesterday. Zoe ...

No blogs posts for two days in a month when I'd promised myself a daily post. So what did I do instead? A lot of coughing, especially ...

The laburnum is looking very fine at this time of year. It is also the noisiest tree in the garden for hundreds of bumble bees are gathe...

Bert had his biopsy today. We were to leave the house at half-past two for his appointment at half-past four. This was to give us time to v...

Quite a few years ago at one of Hannah's parties (held in Nellybert's home, which is why I was there), a bloke called Danny started ...

Just a marigold, splashed with rain. Sometimes the simplest flowers are the most beautiful. I never left the house or yard today. Just ...

Woke up early. Went into Ballymena to feed a cat. Bought The Guardian and RJ Kerr soda farls. Met some twins coming out of the woods a...

We have guests at Camp David. We joined them for story-time. Ziggy stole their cheese. He was forgiven.

For me, every other Thursday is swimming day. Martha is doing a life-saving course and her Dad and I take it in turns to accompany her. I pi...

It's been a funny sort of day. Judy wakened me at quarter to six and because it was bright and sunny I got up immediately to let her and...