Nelly's Garden

  So it turns out that my heavy cold and Bert’s raging man flu are actually Covid19. I’ve been phoning around the folks that were at our B...

This Christmas, apart from the usual things, I have spoken to at least fifteen different BT Call Centre Operatives. I have had one (useless)...

  First, to establish, that is not Bert - it was his late Uncle Paddy who kept sheep. Bert hasn't bothered with sheep, except for a time...

  Despite Hannah's dire warning, we ventured out today. Bert drove and all went well until, outside our favourite breakfast cafe, the va...

Hannah was up early this morning and warned me that I was not, under any circumstances, to set one foot outdoors as the yard was like a bott...

Jazzer and I went for lunch today in a little restaurant beside The Junction, just outside Antrim town. Jazzer lives in Antrim and I was bor...

 Lough Gill from Slish Wood in Sligo On Friday morning I caught the train to Belfast and boarded the bus to Enniskillen. Mooched around Enni...

Bert and I have been watching The English on Swisser's recommendation and have enjoyed it. It is beguiling, intriguing, beautiful to loo...

  My horticultural daughter during her early years.   Sometimes online shopping doesn't work out. My gardener daughter asked me to buy h...

These are my own summer wallflowers, and I filtered the feck out of them. I think they look very Kaffe Fassett.    Pippin continues her po...

The day started off horribly wet and cold. Pigs had a duvet day. It was Pippin's first full day of freedom since her horrible accident a...

  Here's me and who is like me? Off to Cookstown today for what we hoped would be Pippin's final post-op visit. And it was! Bogdan p...

 I got Wordle in two goes today, with a little help from my friends, specifically Catherine from NZ. They are so ahead of us in time. When t...

  Hedges, too Presbyterian, silage bales, too shiny, late Autumn light, glorious Nellybert got invited to lunch this afternoon, delicious fo...

I met an old friend today. I thought we'd spend a few hours together but she wanted to make a day of it and I'm glad she did because...

  It has been unseasonably mild these past few days. A warm south-westerly has been blowing and some summer-blooming annuals and biennials a...

I am definitely going to start using this blog as a diary. I might not always feel inclined to write reams on daily/weekly events and as I g...

  Ever since Pippin's disastrous accident on the 18th of October, and her surgery on the 20th she has been under the vet's order to ...

Miss Evie's birthday is today. I baked her a cake on Monday, Family Meal Day, and took photographs. But they were not very good. As I ge...

 I don't buy newspapers except on Saturday when I treat myself to the Guardian. Bert and I have our routines, we compete on the Quizword...