by Mark Roberts | Mar 20, 2023 | Trees
I’m not sure who first said, ‘the only constant, is change’, but whoever said it may have based the idea on plants. Plants, long-lived plants at least (trees) exist in a constant state of change. They can’t migrate or move, they sit where they have always sat, rooted...
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...
