Look around you, what do you see? If you are at home, what do the favourite rooms in your house look like? The colour of the walls, curtains, carpet, pictures and ornaments? What clothes does your wardrobe contain? Are they comfortable, stylish, colourful, warm, fashionable? All of these things are different for all of us [...]
Entries from January 31st, 2009
Gardening | Garden Design | The Unique You!
January 31st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: benefit · garden design · gardening · Inspiration
Gardening | Garden Design | No better time to build a home!
January 28th, 2009 2 Comments
Kevin McLoud of TV’s Grand Designs article on ‘No better time to build a home’ in The Telegaph has an excellent theme and has some sound advice. But maybe you don’t want to be quite that adventurous just yet! Perhaps first of all you would be more comfortable making the most of what you have [...]
Tags: benefit · development · garden design · gardening · Inspiration · opportunity · Success
Inspiration | Where do you get yours from?
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
There are a number of people who inspire me. Usually for different reasons – but I’m going to start by mentioning someone that I met late last year. The gentleman in question is Geoff Holt. Geoff famously circumnavigated Great Britain in 2007 and I was privileged enough to get to see him talk about his [...]
Tags: goal · Inspiration · opportunity · Success · target
Gardening | Garden Design | Who will use your garden?
January 20th, 2009 No Comments
Garden Design tips. Who is going to use your garden? What are their needs – are they young or old? How will you cater for their needs? When you are planning your garden give some thought for the needs of the people who will use it. Different age groups have different needs. Adults requirements are [...]
Tags: garden design · gardening · goal · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | What good is it?
January 19th, 2009 No Comments
How is the fact that I have won a Gold Medal for a show garden important for you? It’s all very well and good me winning a Gold Medal – an achievement I am extremely proud of – but what good is that to you if you are considering commissioning a garden designer? On the [...]
Tags: garden design · gardening · Success
Twitter | business | early thoughts
January 18th, 2009 2 Comments
I have recently been introduced to this exciting online networking application. My initial thoughts were that it was of little importance as a business tool. Many of the postings seemed to be about walking the dog or what people were having for tea – not too inspiring! The reason for this is that Twitter is [...]
Tags: business · development · opportunity · Success · Twitter
Success | definition
January 17th, 2009 No Comments
I have been asked a couple of times recently what the word success meant to me. My initial response was that success was a state reached where I didn’t have to worry about anything anymore. Then I did some thinking – my initial response was actually closer to a definition of failure. Success for me [...]
Gardening | Garden Design | Planning
January 17th, 2009 No Comments
Plan what you want to achieve from your garden, set out your ideas on paper before you start work to save time and money. How many of us visit the garden centre, see a plant we like, buy it, take it home then start thinking – now where shall we put this! Come on own [...]
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Hello world!
January 16th, 2009 No Comments
Welcome to my blog. This site will offer my thoughts on Garden Design, Gardening, Sailing, my life and influences, things that catch my eye, goals in my life, things that make me smile and laugh, tips that will help others in some way, networking and other business ideas. Above all, it will, at all times [...]
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