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2009 A Good Year ….?

I did do a review of the year 2008. But it’s onwards and upward and whilst we head into 2010… here’s a look back on the last 12 months of 2009.

*If I missed or forgot something or someone – just hollar and I will ammend as soon as possible 😉

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January saw this garden weblog nominated for the Irish Blog Awards
February launched the new Donegan Landscaping website whilst I also picked up a Quality award for 2008.
In March the PR industry kicked off the 2nd garden guest sessions whilst I continued to work on radio talking about yet more gardening…
In April the ultimate chickens arrived whilst I got nominated for a Net Visionary Award
May saw me make the Net Visionary Awards shortlist and as I continued to do my garden give away – The Richard Corrigan debacle kicked off – he was joined in that department by The Green Party
In June I visited Osnabruck Botanical Gardens as they celebrated their 25th birthday and I also had the honour to speak at the Greenhouse social media seminar in Limerick

July was probably the funniest month in the history of the blog with the ‘How Green Is…?’ series – pure genius
August saw the garden group get grooving whilst the red satellite joined bagatelle and the Lord Mayor of Dublin in my Smithfield show garden
September saw The Gardeners Weekend kick off
October saw me head to Kilkenny to compete in The Irish Conker Championships whilst I built a garden for Repak Recycle Week

November saw me head to South Africa with The Niall Mellon Township to build gardens once again.

December was kicked off with the Carbon Neutral Revolution and Trim 2025

Whilst I flicked through my diary and realised just how much I actually had done… it should be noted that none of this would make any sense without someone to share the stories, the laughter and equally the tears with. I am forever greatful to the so many great friends and people I have met along this years road. Thank you. 🙂

Did I enjoy it? Every second. Don’t get me wrong… no road is an easy an easy one especially when I work in an industry that is so weather dependant and I am self employed. That is not a complaint…. more an additional reason to appreciate the people who stand tall by my side when time are tougher and there too when we laugh our socks off.

Go raibh míle maith agaibh. Nollaig Shona duit. Slán agus beannacht.

Thank you again, for everything.

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the farmers markets…?

my reasons for starting Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd are probably quite different to those of most in business [?] to be very honest. But as I have said recently it always comes back to the fact that I love what I do.

With that in mind, I was thinking that maybe the Donegan Landscaping team might do the Farmers Market. Not so much to earn enough money to retire [humour…?!!], but moreso to go back to the reason why I started. I’ve no plans in place, nothing ready, not even a venue – I simply mentioned it to the team at our weekly meeting. The guys seemed quite enthusiastic about the whole thing! Which is really good 🙂

So I said I’d put it to the people and see what the thinking was. The poll is below and if you’d like to [go a stage further] leave a comment, one can do so below.
Many thanks in advance, Peter.