Grow Your Own Garden Class
course title: grow your own garden class where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 21st August 2010 time: 9.30am – 3.30pm cost: €75 – including morning tea, lunch and all materials numbers limit: minimum of 8 and 12 people max Who is it for: If you don’t wish to farm your entire garden [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }A Sound Weekend
More a weekend of sound…. see what you think ? Friday evening – pitch and putt club annual outing Ended up in playing guitar in the resulting trad session Saturday, I met Ger who was checking the mosture in barley After I dropped into Philip who makes elder flower champagne Sunday morning, listening to the [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 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 }Grow Your Own Course
course title: grow your own kitchen garden where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 22nd May 2010 time: 10am – 2pm cost: €60 numbers limit: 8/9 people max Details: After my talk with the GIY group and then after the last course was covered recently in the Irish Independent by Susan Daly….I don’t [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 0 comments }November In The Garden
It is that time of year… some say it’s bloody depressing. But I like it. I don’t know why particularly… maybe it’s that I get home [a little] earlier… maybe it’s that I get to burn the timber that I have mamaged to amalgamate over the last eight months or so… I don’t know. To [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 5 comments }reheated coffee causes cancer….?!!
Firstly this is relevant to the business. We all have an office. We all need good coffee. Second Mrs D does help out where she can and this was one where she was trying to. On Sunday I went to get a new coffee maker in another electrical store, because, a few days before… Thursday [...]
{ all posts, office } { 6 comments }get a hard hat…. go on!
Friday8th May 2009, this gig is on. It will be going on all day in The Pavillions Shopping Centre in Swords – i’ll be there from 2-6pm. It’s called hard hat day. I was in South Africa with the Niall Mellon Trust the last two years and [God bless, this year too... with your help] [...]
{ all posts, thinking of others } { 2 comments }what to do with that old dead tree…
I had seen this somewhere before… anyhow. If you are bored & need a little…. there ye are luv, sure that looks grand now… wha’ ? ….a little perking up, so to speak then this is for you. If the tree is dead, painting it a *wild* colour does 3 things…. it saves you the [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { 7 comments }1001 gardens you must see before you die
The only thing I didn’t like about this book is the title. A little depressing to be honest. Why it needed Titschmarsh to do the preface i’ll never know [no offence ]. Why they didn’t just change the title to 1001 garden to make you smile and just leave it at that… ? That said [...]
{ all posts, recommended reading } { 2 comments }top posts for december
the top posts for November were getting back to a more horticultural nature and December a little moreso again – but – I still don’t understand why a post on taxi ranks has rated in the top 10 since it was written….? Maybe someone can tell me? That said, I still have to publish the [...]
{ all posts, office } { 0 comments }2008, a good year…?
Another year over and what can I say?!! In short 2008 was the greatest roller coaster of a year since I first set up Donegan Landscaping over 8 years ago now. We had some really great,challenging and exciting projects to work on and that of course is down to really amazing Clients. I thank you [...]
{ all posts, office } { 4 comments }even more waste at fingal county council
To encourage home composting Fingal County Council sell home compost bins at a reduced rate and deliver them free of charge to residents living in Fingal. So why then two weeks ago did I get a brown bin delivered… One may say that’s good, right? not really. Another boo boo by Fingal County Council then [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 2 comments }top posts for november
the results for octobers top 10 posts as read by you were a little more appropriate to the season – ish… And it seems apart from the odd curveball, trends are becoming as trendy as they should be. And so from 1-10 here are the top 10 posts that you liked to read the most [...]
{ all posts, office } { 0 comments }top posts for october
the results for septembers top 10 were surprising… October however, brought trends back to that of what one would consider a little more appropriate to the season – ish… And so from 1-10 here are the top 10 posts that you liked to read the most, enjoy! and thank you for visiting and reading. Of [...]
{ all posts, office } { 0 comments }the farmers market at swords…
i had never been but on saturday i took a stroll into Swords – just at the bottom of main street adjacent the swords castle – is where it’s all happening [10am - 4pm]. It’s not huge but it’s enough to have a relaxing, friendly day out side in the cool November air. I liked [...]
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