by Mark Roberts | May 4, 2022 | Trees
Back in the day, in fact, even before the day, we all knew that old tradesmen were mad. It was just an accepted fact, fire is hot, ice is cold, Auckland has traffic problems, and old tradesmen are mad. And yes they were all men, tradeswoman didn’t go mad, because...
by Mark Roberts | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
I first came across the term industrial athlete about twenty years ago. I’m not sure who invented it or how long it was in use before I saw it, but suddenly it was everywhere. Industrial athletes started popping out of the woodwork, they were everywhere too. There...
by Mark Roberts | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Roberts | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 18, 2021 | How to, Trees
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...
