I was talking to my friend the archaeologist, we call him Matt the Digger, because that’s what archaeologists do. They dig holes and find all sorts of treasure and things from the past. Some job, eh! Well he was telling me he was working on the new bridges at Claregalway and they came across a… Read more »
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March is the month when things really start to get busy, so I’ll try to be brief this month. I’m told I tend to go on a bit! New Book Launched I’m happy to announce the launch of my new book, The Complete Vegetable Grower. It’s a bit of a departure for me, for a… Read more »
The News Hurrah, Spring is here! We have some fab February highlights… The Limerick Bereavement Project is now using Gordon Goes to Greenieland as part of their bereavement services! It is a fantastic group that help children come to terms with parental separation and bereavement. It was not expected that Gordon Goes to Greenieland would… Read more »
Grow your own Vitamin C in Ireland? Grow spuds! Find out how at The 12th Annual Potato Day at The Organic Centre Sunday 13th March 2011 from 11am -5pm with a special feature on “SAVE the BEES” Potatoes are not only a nutritional powerhouse they are also delicious and versatile to use in dishes. Not… Read more »
Three new courses from The Garden School this Spring in Galway with Irish Garden writer Ciaran Burke, including weekend courses and night classes Grow Your Own Food Sunday classes, 6 weeks. This course is a unit from the RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Horticulture course and on completion participants can get an… Read more »
Well the good news about February is that winter is nearly over and March isn’t far away. However, after the December snow, it’s a braver person than me who’ll bet on us not having another cold snap. January was quite pleasant here but most days the thermometer rarely moved much above freezing. It doesn’t help… Read more »
We’ve certainly had a hard start to winter and I suspect there’s more snow to come but the good news is that a hard winter often means a good summer will follow. However, my attempts at guessing the weather have been consistently wrong in the past so no predictions or refunds if I’m wrong. One… Read more »
It doesn’t take much for me to start questioning my abilities as a GIYer at this time of the year. I wander around my veggie patch, poking at kale plants with a stick and feeling mightily peeved that there’s nothing much worth eating. And wondering, is there more I could have done? The frustrating thing… Read more »
Waiting lists will never end under FF & Harney—3,598 wait over three months in Galway Hospitals. Galway West Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has described the latest figures on hospital waiting lists in Galway published this week as proof, yet again, that the Health Minister and the Fianna Fáil Government have no ambition to end waiting lists. Senator… Read more »
It has been a tough start to December with arctic conditions prevailing and the veggie patch (and everything else) blanketed in up to a foot of the white stuff. Still, the shortest day of the year is on the 21st of this month so if you’re a glass half-full kind of person you can take some… Read more »
How to care for your Fresh Christmas tree this Festive Season—Horkans Lifestyle & Garden Centre, Lydacan, Claregalway. Quality Irish farmed Christmas trees are the best in the world. The Irish climate is perfect for growing beautifully shaped non shedding Christmas trees so much so that the exporting of quality Irish growing Christmas trees is huge… Read more »
Seeing that pile of rubble beside the bridge in Claregalway last Sunday reminded me of a time in the mid-seventies, when a small group of men from the parish got together and built a wall. On its own, the wall would not have had any significance. It was hardly twelve feet high and no more than… Read more »
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Beautiful photo taken this evening by Marie Dempsey at 7pm while saying the Rosary at the Grotto in Claregalway Church.
