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A new state-of-the-art headquarters in Dublin’s Citywest has been unveiled by Gowan Auto, following the consolidation of nine major motor brands and the completion of a phased relocation of 129 staff.  Gowan Auto is the exclusive importer and distributor of Alfa Romeo, Citroën, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Honda, Jeep, Opel, and Peugeot in the Republic of Ireland. The company has united its suite of car brands, teams and expertise and presented its expansive office space, to include a 110,000 sq ft parts warehouse, a contemporary training academy, and an extensive marketing showroom. Gowan Auto, a member of the family-owned holding company, the Gowan Group, has made a significant commercial investment in the new Citywest premises, to future-proof the business and to meet its dealer partners’ sales, parts, technical and aftersales needs, more readily.  The complex is equipped with 26 electric vehicle chargers, 123 car parking spaces, seven meeting rooms, and two t...

Sourcebooks Casablanca, 368p, ISBN:1402238797 To say that the beautiful and tempestuous Lady Serena is highly upset to find that her recently deceased (and highly eccentric) father, the Earl of Spenborough, left the care of her fortune and control over her marriage to her jilted fiancé Ivo Barrasford, the Marquis of Rotherham, is to understate the case. Too much time has elapsed since Serena broke her engagement to her childhood companion, Rotherham, (and that too after the invitations had been sent – such a scandal!) for them to feel anything but discomfort at this bit of posthumous matchmaking on the part of the Earl. Or so they both declare. Used to commanding a large household and having acted as her father’s hostess from a young age, energetic and politically-savvy Serena soon finds herself in doldrums when her life is suddenly reduced to a small Dower house with none but her father’s young widow, Fanny, for company and a social sphere consisting of occasional vis...

How do you start a ‘Mother of Thousands’ baby? LOOKING FOR MOTHER OF MILLIONS AND THOUSANDS PUPS? THEN CLICK HERE TO FIND THE SPECIES AVAILABLE AT THE ‘SEEDS OF EADEN’ SEED SHOP  The ‘Mother of Thousands’ ornamental plant, as well as  the ‘Mother of Millions’, are amongst several species within the Bryophyllum (previously known as Kalanchoe) genus known for their ability to produce baby plants known as ‘Pups’ along the edge of their leaves. Although not unique, it is because of the Bryophyllum’s unusual ornamental quality that many gardeners are tempted to try and propagate these pups in order to produce new plants. So how do you start a ‘Mother of Thousands’ baby? Mother of Thousands pups growing on soil surfaceYou will be pleased to know that it is surprising simple, in fact just allowing a pup to land on some damp compost is enough for one to take root and establish itself as a mature specimen, however this...