Garden Retail awards last night rewarded the best garden centres in Britain. Thanks to our sponsors HTA, Quinton Edwards, Garden Expo, Glee, Greenfield Software, Gardeners' World Live, National Garden Gift Vouchers, Pet Care Trust, William Sinclair, Town & Country and Vital Earth.

1. Introduced Garden Expo's Jonny Kirk to Glee's Dan Thurlow. They got on like a house on fire.

2. Sat on the glamour table with Millbrook's Sue Allen and Tammy Woodhouse, Pet Care Trust's Janet Nunn, Garden Centre Association's Gillie Westwood and The Sun's Val Bradley. Look in The Sun for piece on Saturday and listen to Radio Kent. Most of them sneaked upstairs for a special gig we put on featuring Jonathan Ross, Liam Gallagher, Russell Brand and Bryan Ferry. This is true (ish).

3. Squire's Dennis Espley asked me to get awards announcer Lynn Bowles off Radio 2's Terry Wogan show to stand up so everyone could see what she looked like. I said I would if he didn't make me dance with anyone like he usually does.

4. Doesn't awards presenter Alan Dedicoat (voice of the balls) look like Garden Centre Association's chairman Martin Stewart?

5. Dedicoat said don't choose the number seven for your lottery numbers or multiples there of because everyone else does.

6. Best dancers-Andy McIndoe and Carol Paris. Jonathan Ross was doing a music awards upstairs at Grosvenor House on Park Lane. Disloyally, the Millbrook contingent went to have a look. They were quite rightly thrown out.

7. Best tartan- Ken Cox's frockcoat. Second Dobbies' James Barnes (trews). Third: Capital Gardens' Colin Campbell-Preston (also trews)

8. Tillington's garden centre magazine contract is up for renewal today. The Beautiful Gardens mag goes out to 4 million homes and is Britain's biggest garden mag. The mag has 10 times the circulation of any other. Seven Publishing and Haymarket are pitching. I put a word in with Tillington people such as Dennis Espley (Squires), Caroline Owen (Scotsdale), Peter Self (Whitehall), Paul Wright (Frosts) etc. Not that I have any influence.

9. Most talked about-Nicholas Marshall from Garden Centre Group (formerly Wyevale). Also who is going to succeed Inga Grimsey at RHS (she left last week ahead of schedule citing a bad foot). HTA's David Gwyther and Hillier's Andy McIndoe told me they are out of the running. An expose will be in Private Eye next week (I know I say this every week).

10. Last to leave...me.