Irish Independent March 3rd 2010

Wednesday 3rd March was a nice day. I’d had a really great chat with Susan Daly over the phone last week and awoke to a clatter of texts and messages all singing Carly Simon on the answering machine Great to have humorous friends…
I must say it is a great article. Extremely well written [...]

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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 and [...]

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Gardening Nude – a book review

This is a really unusual story…. in a sense. I’d had this idea for a book. A garden book….. I still do, anyhow… the book idea aside, it was to be something a little, not Royal Horticultural Society, all pot pourri kind of smoking jacket – esque etc… you get my drift. 
Via my good mate [...]

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Ever Wondered What It Takes To Grow A Plant…?

October Bank Holiday Weekend, I went to Kilkenny. I had so much to do….
On my agenda was to meet my good friend & plant inventor Pat Fitzgerald.
I had interviewed Pat for the blog before. I had also worked with Pat on so many of my projects and gardens… but I’d never seen his nursery. The place, his [...]

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irish conker championship 2009

I said I’d go to Freshford to compete in The Irish Conker Championships …and I did. How did I get on…? Absolutely 110% had an amazing time…. I loved every second of it…
How did I get on in the competition….? Honestly? K.O. ‘d in the first round
I hadn’t trained….
Is it serious [...]

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