Pain killers and energy drinks – the stuff of legends and broken dreams
How to transition from an industrial athlete to an office worker; what can you do once you have skated on water to stop you from sinking like a stone?
The customer is always right?
The customer has to be always right because that is what business people and pushy customers say. But the reality is that customers are often wrong, and sometimes not just a little bit wrong, but absolutely wrong.
A question of time
What I took from the evening, apart from a weariness of clocks, is that time is an abstract concept. What is or is not permanent depends on your point of view and when it comes to trees, time is age and location dependent.
Specialist help
If you don’t know what you don’t know, and you have confidence in your own judgment and ability how do you know when specialist help is required? How do you know if the job or task beyond your abilities?
Synergies of Woe
Synergies of woe, not being an emo band or a book being touted on a day-time television chat show, but the realisation that each sector of the green industry had the same issue and the same set of villains.
The substance of being hollow
Not only are we surrounded by hollow things that don’t fall down, but many of the hollow things that don’t fall down have holes in them too. Who would have thought?
Botanical tattoos
While talking I had noticed the various inked sleeves and tattooed artworks of those before me, there was not a blank canvas to be seen and most of the work had a botanical theme
Pruning – one size does not fit all
When it comes to plants every man with a dog and retired lady who makes tea has a ‘how to’ on pruning; some of these are good, some of these are not that bad but most are just wrong!
No secret to planting
I had been planting trees and shrubs for over 20 years and I didn’t realise that poor planting was such a problem - but clearly, it was then and it seems that it still is.