As an arborist, I have never grasped the concept of trees as a problem. A tree is a tree, in the same way that a spade is a spade, a brick is a brick, and the colour red is… red. These things are just things and while there is variation (considerable variation) the thing itself ...
I was becoming a mad tradesman. As the madness started to take hold part of me tried to stop it, but part of me couldn’t help itself. There were now two of me in the tree having an argument that nobody else could hear… A clear sign of madness.
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 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.
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.
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, 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.
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?
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
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!
