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Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:33 am**

Hi from Ian in Ireland

I am a regular subscriber to forum sites! I enjoy the banter very much.

This week I have more time on my hands, partly due to the Christmas holiday but more because I have been laid off at work. I was working as a freelance writer for a local newspaper in Inishowen, County Donegal. The company that took the paper over have decided that cutbacks are necessary so instead of an invite to the Christmas party they have let me go!!

I did a gardening article called Up the Garden Path, an environmental article called Clean and Green and a motoring article where I was lucky enough to go around the peninsula and interview people about their cars.

I was doing the gardening article for about seven years.

I am looking forward to new challenges. In the mean time I will carry on adding to my blog site and Forum page to keep the creative juices going... as well as joining in the chats on this site (children behaving themselves permitting!!!)

Thanks

Ian

Inishindie

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:36 am**

What a rotten week for them to consolidate, you must be feeling very unseasonal. There's a lot of magazines take freelance contributions but actually getting a regular column does make a difference.

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:42 am**

I think you will find that here at FG its not the constant fighting or the rampant hostility or even the death threats you're bound to encounter that makes this such a wonderful forum.

Rather its the fond memories we create in the process.

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:56 am**

On a footnote the only thing we cultivate here is slight brain decay and mental retardation.

If you can get behind that then I think were all set here.

Welcome.

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:58 am**

Hi! :-6

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:02 am**

Hi Ian! What a nice intro! We have several people here into gardening; you're bound to find them.

I look forward to getting to know you! Welcome to FG!

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:37 am**

hi Ian:D

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:12 pm**

Welcome Ian and I like your intro and I hope we here more of you :-6

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:15 pm**

Hello and Welcome to the Garden!:-6:-6

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:02 pm**

Hi, welcome to FG Ian

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:37 pm**

Good lord kinks go and put some respectable clothes on, the poor lad's only just arrived and he's blushing already.

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:30 pm**

Ian welcome to Forum Garden, there are so many different forums on here that you are bound to find some that will interest you !

I wish you the best of luck in the New Year. What a thoughtless action , you would have thought they could have waited till after the festive season !

Anyway if you want banter, it's all in the Garden. Enjoy discovering.

Five Finger Strand Inishowen

:-6:D

Posted: **Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:28 am**

Welcome to FG Ian:-6

Sorry to hear about your job, bet your kids will be happy to see more of you any road, from your intro, looks like you write well and wont be out of work long matey...Their loss ~ our gain

Have fun:-6

Posted: **Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:59 am**

Welcome Ian, so you are from the land of the redundant Celtic Tiger, so am I. Notified of my redundancy a couple of months ago.

With all of the lay offs happening here the forum will soon be over run with unemployed Irish.

Posted: **Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:57 am**

spot;745619 wrote: Good lord kinks go and put some respectable clothes on, the poor lad's only just arrived and he's blushing already.

Just trying to make him feel comfortable :wah: