by Mark Roberts | Mar 31, 2018 | Trees
I have been commissioned by my local City Council to create some Urban Monoliths. I’m not sure the title is correct; a monolith is a large single upright block of stone serving as a pillar or monument. My monoliths will be wooden, they will be discretely hidden away...
by Mark Roberts | Feb 11, 2018 | Trees
I came home the other day and two nice men were working on my neighbour’s hedge. I don’t know for sure that were nice men, I did not talk to them – that would have been weird. I assumed that they were nice because they had set up the work site with cones and...
by Mark Roberts | Jan 31, 2018 | Trees
The line between social media and social networking can be a fine one. Once you press enter, and your comments appear in a group chat the roller-coaster begins and where or when it stops nobody knows. On one occasion, I innocently entered a slow-burning chat that...
by Mark Roberts | Jan 24, 2018 | Trees
A while back I gave a presentation on risk; ‘Risky Business – the business of risk.’ I was able to present it a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was intentionally emotive ‘Disaster is lurking and we will save you’. I filled it with selected statistics for...
by Mark Roberts | Dec 29, 2017 | Trees
Today I visited my favourite stub. Yes, A stub, not a pruning cut but a stub. I also got to try out my new rope wrench; its purple, so it doesn’t go as fast as the red ones and it’s not as cool as the black ones – the wrench worked well, the climber…...
