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What with holidays, snow, podcasts and magazine deadlines for Insider I didn't quite manage to round up 2009.

Rather than go through the big stories and events I want to do it a bit more personally and look back at the large profile interviews I did during the year.

Each chunk below has a link to the interview if you want to read a bit more.

The first one I did in 2009 was appropriately enough, given the current weather, in a snow covered Falkirk industrial estate with Jamie Rae of Redeem. He was extremely honest and open which for an interviewer is great.

Then I was off up to the Raploch to speak with Campbell Christie about the regeneration in Stirling, football and politics.

A slightly shorter journey saw me going downstairs from my office to spend an hour with Margaret Laidlaw from Tenon to discuss accountancy, entrepreneurs and the recession.

I was at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 90th anniversary President's Lunch this week.

Held in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre it was a mix of business people and members of the trade body.

Star draw was undoubtedly CIMA president Aubrey Joachim who flew in for a whistle stop engagement in Scotland.

After the event he took the time to sit down with me for a short interview.

I have mentioned I was a judge for the Entrepreneurial Exchange awards on my twitter and also in the paper's leader column but thought it was worthy of a bit more explanation.

For the sake of full disclosure Business7 is the media partner for the event.

To set the scene I dumped my car at Linlithgow Train Station on Wednesday and made my way through to Glasgow for an 8.30am kick off.

Deloitte's office on George Square was to be home for the day.