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Don't forget to stop by here over the next days. We will be giving away two tickets to Bloom in the Park. This week we will change our Applegreen website survey, the first person to fill out the new survey wins the tickets.

Our new survey could appear at any moment so check back regularly. We will leave the tickets at the ticket collection booth in the Phoenix Park at the entrance to Bloom where they can be collected by the winner.

The Applegreen/Lavazza garden will be well worth a visit and designer Brian O'Hara will be in attendance each day to fill you in on all the details. Stay in touch!

I kept my counsel as far as the Eurovision was concerned, never voiced my opinion to anyone but I can't contain myself in my container any longer. To say it was one of the most embarrassing Eurovision moments I have ever witnessed would be somewhat understating it. Thinking we were being wildly anarchic and radical we sent a stuffed turkey with a voice like a blender, to sing a song with no melody, which took the piss out of the event.

Truth was, Dustin's performance slipped by without a notice. Totally overshadowed by devils, gods, ballet, surreal elvis impersonators and a host of other theatrical presentations, in short there was nothing to remember about the turkey, certainly no song, no melody. The sarcastic, supposedly funny tone was totally lost on our European neighbors as it was on most people outside the Pale in Ireland. Dustin is funny to some Dubliners, his 'humour' however does not travel and his appearance this year will not bring one tourist to Ireland.

You may be one of those people who thinks the Eurovision is stupid, irrelevant, uncool and a general waste of time. and God knows you might be right. The fact remains however It was watched by an estimated 100 million viewers around Europe and the rest of the world and one can't help thinking that this was an opportunity lost.

Yep...it's that time of year again. Shortly before Bloomsday comes Bloom in the Park, a celebration of all things green and flowery, water features, garden furniture, garden wear, plants, trees, you name it, if it can be planted, pruned, trimmed or mowed Bloom in the Park will have it.

I am going to go out on a limb (sorry!) and predict much better weather than last year. If you remember last year was a massive success, packed each day, but the weather was so bad, that at times it steamed and smelled like a rain forest must. Torrential rain turned the event into one big water feature but somehow the mood remained buoyant (sorry again!) and everyone seemed to be having a whale of a time.

Once again Applegreen and Lavazza team up with Artist and Garden Designer Brian O'Hara.
Last year the partnership scooped a silver medal and Best Minimalist Garden at the show Full details with a profile of the designer and this year's design can be checked out at the Bloom in the Park website.

The complaints dept. will be giving away tickets for Bloom over the next weeks so stay
in touch.

Came across this little peach when a friend added it to their myspace profile. It had already been viewed over 5 million times by people all over the world. Since I first saw it I have been revisiting the complete Beatles collection to try and figure out what is it about their melodies that make them so enduring and powerful that many years later, they still pop up all over our lives.

I asked the boss if we could play only Beatles melodies in the Applegreen stores. He suggested I ask you, said he wasn't into music very much and sometimes even found it irritating in shops and public places, said he preferred to choose the music he listened to himself and didn't like having music forced on him. So here I am asking you. Help me out here, what kind of music do you like to hear in shops?