END OF AN ERA
11/29/2004 The manufacture of compost at the McGeary Compost site on the Armagh road is reportedly to end before Christmas this year.
SIXTH MEXICAN MUSHROOM CONFERENCE
11/27/2004 The 6th Mexican Mushroom Conference "Fungi expo 2004" was held at the Melia Hotel in the beautiful Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, on the Pacific Coast.
BRITISH GLOOM
11/27/2004 Stalker wasn't surprised to be reading of gloomy outlooks on the problem page in The Mushroom Journal October 2004.
CANALS APLENTY
11/27/2004 Where would you go to celebrate a wedding anniversary and to be near canals?
NEW BLOOD
11/27/2004 Stalker's spies have informed him of some new blood joining the Monaghan sales and marketing team.
IM PEOPLE
11/27/2004 Jim Mallon's daughter Sorcha McComb who works at IM Transport was seen out in Soho recently.
CITY SHOPPING BREAK
11/27/2004 Seems like Harte Peat operative John Ward was seduced by all those sleek TV adverts to go shopping in Lisburn.
CHRISTMAS CHEER
11/27/2004 With the festive season just a few weeks away, attention is focussing on the hungry xmas tum and what will be put in it this year. The latest Christmas dinner fad is set to be the "gooducken".
BEST IN THE WORLD
11/27/2004 Stalker was tickled to see the headlines in the national and international press on the subject of the Economist Intelligence Unit's index of 111 states, which combines data on incomes, health, unemployment, climate, political stability, job security, gender equality as well as what the magazine calls " freedom, family and community life."
WEBCAST
11/27/2004 There was a live webcast on Thursday, November 4, 2004 by MycoBiotech Inc. Stalker received the alert but managed to miss the actual event, as per usual.
ORGANIC HELP FOR MUSHROOM GROWERS
11/27/2004 Stalker chanced upon this snippet from earlier in the year on the BBC website. Peter Watson keeps popping up in different media slots, plugging away at bringing mushroom growing skills to the people – fair play to him.