Mild speculation and questionable returns

There is a tree that I drive past on my way to work. I call it my tree, but that’s a stretch and calling it a tree isn’t much better. A green blob would be a more accurate description – a blob maybe 4m tall, khaki in colour with a crusty beige brown trunk. Hardly a...

The art of management

I have just taken on a new job, and the new job has ‘manager’ in the title. I have become the Tree Services Manager for a local utility company. It’s a great position, in a great company and I’m enjoying the role, but what I find interesting is the concept of...

Missing in the virtual world

I’m writing this while in an airport in Sweden, not that I’m bragging – much. I am here because the world of conferences has resumed. For the 20 years or so before Covid, I had been attending and presenting at conferences, it was just something that I did and I never...

Ancient wisdom in modern times

Looking out now the dust seems to be settling. I’m not brave enough to say that we have entered a post-COVID19 era – we are only one cough away from another dust storm. Who knows what that storm will bring and when it will end, but for now we are breathing a...

An unsavoury tort

Tort is the area of law involving obligations by one person or entity to another. The tort of negligence is where one party owes a duty of care to another. A tort arises when the party owing the duty of care breaches that obligation and damage are experienced by a...