by Mark Roberts | Jan 3, 2020 | Trees, Uncategorized
The Skype meeting was tedious and I found myself checking FaceBook. Checking FaceBook out of the corner of my eye; one can never look away from the camera during an online meeting. A discrete click, a sly scroll and ‘Pruning is cultural not scientific’, that’s worth a...
by Mark Roberts | Oct 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
– the control of exotic vegetation on Auckland’s volcanic cones The volcanic cones of Auckland were taken from the Māori about 150 years ago; the cones were and are considered ancestral mountains, they are Tūpuna Maunga. During those 150 years, Māori had...
by Mark Roberts | Aug 18, 2019 | Trees
Snake Oil is an old-school term for a cure-all potion, that in reality does nothing. If you are lucky the potion won’t make things worse but the chances of it making things better are slim – ‘that which doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’, or in the case of Snake...
by Mark Roberts | Jun 2, 2019 | Trees, Uncategorized
Of the over 20 or so definitions of risk that exist by far the simplest is; the possibility of losing something of value. In terms of managing risk for health and safety, risk is defined as the likely consequence of a hazard, combined with the likelihood or...
by Mark Roberts | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have just spent the past two and a half days in the High Court; not as a cleaner or a criminal, but as an expert witness. I have provided evidence in Court before, but not the High Court; this was just a job that just happened to be in the High Court – not a bother....
