The customer is always right?

I was inspired to write an article on what the customer wanted. Basically, I just wanted to vent. My current annoyance is the response, ‘it’s what the client wanted’. This is possibly one of the most pathetic excuses in the arborist phrasebook. Weak and feeble are...

A question of time

I have a friend who is a philosopher. A real philosopher, not some try hard YouTuber or dribbling drunk. She is a professor at the local university, her area of expertise is metaphysics and her subject is time. She is very good at her job and leaving her work at the...

Specialist help

The expression, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, relates to people who become falsely overconfident about their expertise in a certain subject if they possess a small amount of knowledge about it. As conversations go, this sort of thing is annoying if you are...

Synergies of Woe

I secured a speaking spot at the World Urban Parks Asia-Pacific Congress last year before COVID took it away from all of us.  As conferences go, the name was a bit of a mouthful.  The timing was ideal as it started a day after the Asia-Pacific Tree Climbing...

The substance of being hollow

As you read this you are probably sitting in a room that is hollow; a building with walls and empty internal spaces, rooms. You could be in your work vehicle; a hollow structure with outside walls and an inside space, the cab. You may well be drinking from a cup, can...