by Mark Roberts | Mar 12, 2023 | Nature, Trees
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...
by Mark Roberts | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Roberts | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Roberts | Jul 17, 2022 | Trees
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...