Today it seems as good a time as any to start a-blogging. So after a restorative weekend making Apple crumble and inventing a rather good chutney (courgette and sour apple with lime and ginger, if you are interested), here goes. It has been a week since the Garden Media Guild Awards 09, and I am still blinking in the bright morning light. Congratulations to all the winners and runners up. Honourable mentions to: - Alys Fowler for bringing her bike – impressive greenness! - James Alexander Sinclair and Chris Collins for services to baby patting - Ambra Edwards for winning Journalist Of The Year for the second time - James Wong for general air of surprise and talking about sailing in Singapore - Andy McIndoe for kissing the Queen … or something - Peter Beales for a short, sweet and to the point Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech - And me for making the final of the Columnist of the Year category, ‘Ray! Missed soundtrack opportunity: ‘Bad Medicine’ by Bon Jovi for Grow Your Own...