Nelly's Garden

Springhill, Cullybackey 31 st January, 2025 My Dearest Cousin, Hoping this letter finds you and yours in good spirits. I am so...

  Burning Books One of my delights is reading to Martha and Evie; that pleasure is greatly increased when I enjoy the story myself. We are a...

The title is from something I came across on social media. The person who wrote it was tired of listening to misinformed baloney that some f...

  First of all - a Victoria Sponge update. A recent reader will remember that Bert was making one for the visit of Martha, Evie, their folks...

Over the past few months Bert has taken to making cakes and usually, they are very good. He started with baked cheesecakes and these were ex...

  Bert: Where's that Holy Joe calendar that was on the freezer? (A local congregation blesses us annually with a calendar featuring scen...

So how was our Christmas? It was quiet, but it wasn't always so. Here are a couple of festive blog posts from the Nelly's Garden...

My oldest daughter called round the other day and I was telling her, what with one thing and another, I wasn't feeling the festive seaso...

Teller of tall tales. The General. The Wee Manny. A Rascal. A Traveller. An Adventurer.  It has taken me all this time to begin this post an...

Thirteen days ago I went with my friend to the local hospital to visit with her husband. Seven days ago he was discharged to spend his final...

 No Excitement Someone asked me today if anything exciting going on in my life. I replied that there was not and that I was glad of it. ...

  Home Alone (November 2011) I'm home alone. Pearlie has gone to one of her regular respite placements so that means two whole weeks wit...

 Well! That was very disappointing.  My first instinct was to become despondent, but I didn't want to feel disheartened, so instead I de...

 After the shameful amount of books read in September I am pleased to disclose that October was a big improvement. I started slim, as in vol...

  These past few days, I have had the pleasure of Ganching and Kerry Sister's company. They took a house close to where we are, and we w...

Pearlie's Favourite Niece visited us today and I found myself remembering how  it was when Nellybert and Pearlie shared a roof. What a d...

This has been a very sad day for all of us at Springhill. One of our Kune Kune pigs, Lily, had to be euthanised tonight. These past few mont...