Nelly's Garden

I've just been out to close in the hens and their shed appears to be on fire! Thankfully it wasn't. I spoke to Hannah. Do you realis...

 Happy Birthday, Zoë.  Conversation with Martha at the supper table. Granny, remember how your cakes used to be like biscuits? I do. I remem...

I have just got out of bed and am still feeling tired Such a busy, busy week but not so busy to justify having to go to bed at 5 o'clock...

Between one thing and another Bert has had a tough week. There has been a lot going on with Pearlie (she broke her wrist) and we’ve been try...

 Day 35 after the first fall, 15 days since the second. I've learned that this tumbling to the ground lark is not an uncommon experience...

 A post from ten years ago. Sunshiney Day, Making Hay At last, we've had some more fine weather. And there have been lots of outdoor act...

1. Got rather cock-a-hoop about how well I was getting over The Fall. And they do say that pride goes before a fall.  2. Entertained Bert...

The very popular Pippin continues to make her presence felt at Nellybert's. Everyone likes her. Martha and Evie are delighted with her a...

It's our mother's birthday today. Were she alive she'd be ninety-six .  I have a folder on my hard drive named 'Martha' ...

First of all - I am writing this on a laptop, new to me today. It is going to take a while for me to get used to it.  it's day 7 after t...

 I had/have so many things I wanted/want to blog about. My beloved only grandson's 7th birthday, the funeral of an old friend, the new k...

I confess - I'm not that great a chicken-keeper. I do the best I can, keeping them fed, watered and clean.  They've got a big range ...

  The (not so) little monsters are in Connemara camping and I hope they get fine weather. Just before they left, we went on the traditional ...

I brought Peter to the front of the house to show him some dark purple opium poppies; there was a dead juvenile chaffinch on the ground. The...

  The big sumach that I see from my window must be around fifteen years old now. It didn't turn out to be the sumach I wanted, the Stag...

There are some dates that stick in one's mind and today is one - Prince William's 40th birthday for I was in London the day he was b...

  Lulu - 7 night stay, full board. Fee - one bottle of Dingle gin. Nellybert has been doing Doggy Day Care for the last few days. Lulu (abov...

 Sometimes, when I cannot think of a single thing to blog about, I go to the archives. This one is for Ben - the time he broke my greenhouse...

 A few days after the Assembly elections, Banjo Man looked out our window and remarked,  Have you noticed how green everything is since Sinn...