Mike Clough's Articles

Where are the Wild Bits…?

I was out fishing on my local river the other night, this is for private river members only – no…

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The Japanese Knotweed Business…

I am old, I am not wise….but I am old. Being old gives you many things including aching knees, a…

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Marketing….

I do like a bit of marketing. People often say to me ‘your marketing company are a bit off the…

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Getting paid for doing nothing….

I’m getting a little sick of hearing stories about people getting paid huge sums of money …. for doing nothing.…

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Money – The Rhizome of all Evil

As you get older you begin to realise that money causes significant problems, whether it be lack of it …or…

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Twenty Years into the Past

Having recently travelled ten years into the future with my blog – this week we travel twenty years into the…

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Ten Years into the Future….

So let’s time travel ahead by ten years or so …(cue weird dream sequence music) …..what’s going to be going…

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Japanese knotweed invasion – Could it ever happen again…?

When we look back on some of the mistakes with plants that our forebears have made, it’s easy to think…

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It’s just plain rude…

I don’t have many dealings with the ‘general public’ anymore due to my elevated status as business owner and ‘chief…

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Another seminar bites the dust….

Another year passes and another seminar has been and gone ….and what have we learnt??? Well this year the main…

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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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