Nelly's Garden

For the second year running, a Portglenone couple, Damian and Karen McAllister, have sown out a field near their home in sunflowers...

I am trying to remember what troubled me about world affairs before Brexit. The Cuban missile crisis was a bummer. I was in primary school...

This has been a family-orientated week. On Monday, I prepared for the visit of the Norfolk Crowd by making an enormous cauldron of Bolog...

First of all, I must check tonight's weather forecast - because I am back in possession of Rachael's moth trap. She and her family a...

As an experiment, I am writing this on my phone. I get bloggers block when I sit at my desk, and find myself checking views on Flickr and th...

On this day last week, I was primed for slime. Martha wanted to know if I had PVA glue. I had, somewhere. And food colouring, and shavi...

I'm always being told at family gatherings (usually funerals) that I am the very image of my mother. My standard reply is that I am ...

This photograph has received over 9000 views on Flickr. My PB. Monday Early supper for The Haribos as Zoe, Dave and I were going to...

Or... O Miss Anxiety, or Animosity Sex. That's three birthday anagrams for Vancouver Brother. Eamon Ganching blogged Birthday S...

Garden tiger, 23/7/19 On Monday afternoon I tripped and fell. There were a lot of people around but it was Hannah who came to my aid. T...

This pertains to a conversation I had earlier today about gratitude, giving thanks and fostering positivity. I'm grateful for this co...

My friend Rachael, she who encouraged and helped us to start making a proper natural meadow , came over this afternoon. She had a look at th...

...is the title of one of the books I am currently reading. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Moderately interesting. No pictures. Picked up in a ...

Today was lovely and I spent a good deal of it working in the garden. This, despite a night of interrupted sleep. Miss Gracie, who has be...

Sitting this morning in a chapel only a few miles from where I live yet I've never been in it before. I got there early. They were bring...

I knew this woman once who worked in a woman’s hostel. Occasionally asylum seekers, those with children, came to stay in the hostel. Ther...

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...