Nelly's Garden

I will soon be giving an account of my September reading and it will not take long. There will also be a format change. As I have written be...

  Fun With Cardboard I have had the pleasure this weekend of the company of all my children and grandchildren. Yes folks - my darling Katkin...

  When a young woman hits her mid-teens (getting so old) she may not be just as excited about birthday cake as she once was. But that's ...

Well, I was wrong. According to those Amazon people in the USA I did accidentally set up a Prime account in America. Set it up, never used ...

A confession. It took three attempts and many years for me to get to grips with online banking. During that time I was without paper stateme...

It's sad if the birthday girl has to make her own cake, so I asked Bert to do it. All I had to do was choose the recipe, buy the ingredi...

As a birthday present to myself I finally got around to sorting out online banking - hopefully third time lucky. I was ever so thrilled abou...

  While my actual reading slowed down in August, my book purchasing surged. I may have bought three times more books than those I finished r...

This blog, Nelly’s Garden is twenty years old today. Back when I started I believed I was the Oldest Blogger in the village and maybe I was...

  Hunting The Rhubarb Yesterday was Kerry Sister's mumbly-mumbleth birthday. As her birthday was almost totally forgotten last year we d...

 How do I know that my two oldest grandchildren are growing up fast? 1. They have to bend down to give me a goodbye hug. 2. The younger one ...

On the 16th August, Bert and I will have been legally married for 16 years.  I wrote this post the week before our big day. The fellows on t...

I have been getting out and about recently and have used my rail card three times in nine days.  My first outing was to Portrush with Bert, ...

  Five books were completed in July. Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey This was incredibly good,  and I'd recommend it. I passed it t...

 So this is what I was up to 13 years ago today! I've returned several times since then. But really, I should go every year as long as I...

Our family, the one Seamus and Matty started, is big on girls, and short on boys. The parents had five daughters, two sons, six granddaughte...

There are many things I could write about this evening. There always is, despite me being in the twilight of my years. And being in the twil...

Bert and I watched a silly and enjoyable show on Amazon Prime, My Lady Jane. It's set in Tudor England and is an alternative historical ...

  Another six books have been completed since I last posted. Two by Tana French, The Secret Place and The Likeness. They were enjoyable alth...

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...