Nelly's Garden

A post from 13 years ago. IDLE THOUGHTS The alarm goes off at 7am and I hit the snooze button. 7:05am RINGGG! I'm wondering what to do a...

  Above, are my latest purchases from our local Oxfam shop. To be added to the To Read pile. The Richard Flanagan is for Bert. Its subject m...

We decided to change/upgrade our broadband provider. I'd been considering it for quite a while so when the pleasant young chap from Fibr...

I went to Belfast yesterday, St George's Market, then past the Courts where  TV camera crews were setting up. Something to do with an at...

I don’t live in a bubble. No sirree! For it seems now I am surrounded by people who do their own research on YouTube and are coming up with ...

 Monday - shopping with Vee. We also went to the Secret Garden at the Ecos Centre where we found a shared interest in birds of all sizes.* T...

  Dunminning Cottage, 22nd most viewed. 785 views This picture was taken ten years ago. The cottage has been re-thatched since then, and acc...

I finished six books in May. Hagseed by Margaret Atwood, a most enjoyable romp. Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink – I’d been readi...

 On Monday I picked Vee up and we went grocery shopping. I had my list and whizzed around Tesco in no time, then raced out to the car and re...

St MacNissius Church, Tannaghmore Earlier tonight, my daughter Zoe and I attended a memorial Mass in Tannaghmore for my father's brother...

  I have been looking through my external hard drive for inspiration for a blog post. This picture comes from a file I've named House ...

This post refers to events that happened in the late 1960s so almost ancient history. Father Davey, the Parish Priest of Antrim during my ch...

 I woke up on Saturday morning, early as usual, let the dogs out, made coffee, then went to my desk and completed Wordle in four tries. As a...

  Don't even ask me where I picked this one up, for I don't recall. This week it went into the reading basket, as I always want at l...

  It's been five years since I began reading multiple books simultaneously and, since then, I have read approximately 224 books. There m...

 We went to live in Ballykeel 2 sometime in the mid-eighties. It was predominantly a Protestant estate with few Catholic families living the...

I am finding it hard to settle to fresh blogging. So back to the trusty stopgap - a recycled post. This one is almost 20 years old. Some thi...

I finished two books this morning. The first was In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming which I immediately wanted to reread. That is a ...

  Who is that fellow sitting (some time ago) with all those young women? These days he is a retired solicitor, and two of the women are his ...

This past couple of years have seen us get two kittens and a pup. This has been cheering and has brought a bit of youthful high spirits to t...