The Chelsea Show GArden from earlier this year is featured again in this month's Garden Deisgn Journal. Its not a large article and whilst it claimed to "get under the skin of Chelsea designers" it really failed to deliver. So if you were looking for some insight as to how the concrete features and design eveolved, then you wont find it here. Shame really as if the author had given me a call I would have been more than happy to supply information. However it has given me the motivation to write on technical matters and I am pleased to say that my first articles will be for the Garden Design Journal. They wont be published until spring next year and of corse rely on me actually writing them; but I am commited.

Something else that was new this last week was that I took up my role on the Society of Garden Designers Adjudication Committee. I recall the effort and heartache of preparing for my own membership and then day of the adjudication in front of a panel of three was awful. I sympathised with those we saw. It was fascinating to see other people's progress and approach and whilst I joined the panel to try to bring some presence for membership in the Society back to the North West Region of the UK, I realise that I will learn a lot and it can only make my own work better.