Mike Clough's Articles

The INNSA Code of Practice for Japanese Knotweed

The Environment Agency Code of Practice – Managing Japanese Knotweed on Development Sites has been the go-to document for over…

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Green Stuff

In the area where I live we are charged for the removal of garden waste bins. This is a relatively…

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Where’s the quality…?

Where do you go to find quality service nowadays? I find myself harping on about this all the time but…

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Under pressure…

I was reading in the paper at the weekend how James Dyson (the inventor guy/multi-millionaire) only gets about six e…

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Breaking news

Nuclear weapons – ‘of no use …in war on Japanese knotweed’ In case any of you were wondering – given…

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Desperate to be liked…

Social media…what a load of old bo***cks. We never had social media when I first set up in business and…

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It takes all-sorts…

A business is like a cake – you take lots of weird ingredients which on their own might seem a…

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Getting stuff done….

Is it just me or does anybody else notice a definite leaning towards things never actually getting ‘done’ – job…

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Positive thinking….

I was at a seminar a couple of weeks ago titled ‘Be happy – the art of being brilliant …’…

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BLOOD PRESSURE….

Last week I was due to go into the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle for major knee surgery – we are…

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Lessons learned…

As I get older I find myself wondering why we never learn from history? (…my wife will laugh at this…

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Cars …

I have been driving (pun intended) myself mad of late with my obsessive pursuit of the ‘perfect car’. Many of…

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