10 Green Questions With Comedian Paddy Courtney
I met with Paddy Courtney in Portmarnock recently. Anything for the great outdoors is always my attitude and when I realised I could ask Paddy my 10 new green questions and also have a giggle at the same time I was all for it. The other reality is that I really like what 7up are [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 2 comments }Mr Michael Nugent, Senior. Gentleman. Gardener.
In an odd variance of twists and meets… Friday past saw me park my jeep outside my good friends Michaels parents house. I know Michael [jnr] since I was about 19/ 20. Too many is the night I spent in the family home, traditionally on St Stephens Day at a minimum enjoying their company. Michael [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 3 comments }The Red Dead Tree…
You may remember some time ago i had a tree that died and that I then decided to paint red. I called it the red dead tree. Well… on Thursday it left [pictured left] my home. It was admired from afar by good friend Linda who despite dropping hints overa long period of time chose [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 4 comments }10 [New] Green Questions….
It was by freak accident that the 10 green questions started. And they seem to have proved very popular. 10 comedians [?] later I’m now looking for 10 new green[ish] questions. It’s a bit of fun. It may even make you giggle a bit. God knows some people could do with a bit of that [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 6 comments }10 Green Questions With Comedian Eric Lalor
Well thanks God for laughter. I’d be on my knees [or sold them] right now if I really listened to everything I hear. Regarding Eric Lalor, I could not have met a finer gentleman nor a funnier man. Meet one of Dublins hardest working comics and his thoughts on gardening amongst many other topics…. pure [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Eating Chicken Makes You Gay And Bald
I almost missed this one….. but just getting around to my emails now. Bolivian President Evo Morales has claimed that Europeans are bald due to the food they eat while “indigenous peoples are not bald, because they eat other things”. Going further. He also claimed hormones in chicken (never used in the EU) cause homosexuality [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Life Is Great
Last night at 8.55pm baby Ella Donegan was born 7lbs 1 oz. Mom and baby are both doing well. To the people I work with, was supposed to meet, call etc… for your understanding and patience *and to all of you for [all of the so many of...] your best wishes it really is so [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 10 comments }10 Green Questions with… Comedian Morgan Jones
It’s been a long while since I did 10 Green Questions and I was honoured when Morgan Jones gave me a call mid week to meet up…. I needed something to make me smile and I could not have asked for more…. More details over on culch.ie
{ all posts, smile...? } { 4 comments }Dublins 98fm Dave – Spanish Garden Tours
Normally when friends and neighbours etc come back from their holidays… guaranteed there’s a few pictures/ holiday snaps of unusual plants or something for me to look at…. In this case I got a video. I had originally titled this post An Irish Garden in Spain but when I saw Dopey the Dwarf at the [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Thank You Amy
A package arrived to my house on Friday. Remember why nobody got Christmas cards this year… Back to it… this was to say thank you A little card was attached. It meant so much. To that I would like to thank you. The back of the mug reads as such… How nice is that !
{ all posts, smile...? } { 3 comments }101 Amazing Peter Donegan Facts
I had written some time ago a list of ten things you did not know about me. But recently I was reading the weblog of Eolai Gan Fheile and found he had done 101 which I found so much more interesting…. I realised I should do something a little more indepth. I have 4 sisters [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 8 comments }Quiz Mistress Powers and The Irish gardeners
Last week I gave you the Irish Times, Jane Powers super dooper Christmas quiz. If you didn’t see it….? Just click this Irish Times Jane Powers Quiz link. Because this Saturday it will return again. Reckon you can pit your wits against the finest in the land… Go buy a copy of The Irish Times [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Nollaig 09
Unknowns to most, possibly, in Ireland we buy approximately 500,000 trees every year and it takes roughly 7 years to grow one tree. At an average retail price of €30 – 40 thats not bad value Without getting into the horticultural technical stuff… [just for todays anyway] I like to go and help pick mine [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Quizical Christmas Times For An Irish Gardener
It’s a funny situation when as a ‘gardener’ [?] for a living – the Summer Christmas holidays come around…. It’s the one day of the year when I try and rest my brain, horticulturally I buy the Irish Times. It sits there…. I pick it up… I put it back down and like a child [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 0 comments }Working Outdoors….
I saw this image over on Gordons website and just couldn’t help myself…. the title of Gordons post…. love it click the title, just below this line and leave a comment over on Gordons site. The best 5 comments win a prize…. go on working outdoors is not all its cracked up to be…
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