Mike Clough's Articles

What a shallow world we live in…

It never ceases to amaze me how shallow people are, they take a quick at what you’re wearing and make…

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Hybrids aren’t just funny looking cars…

Have you seen the film ‘Blade’ with Wesley Snipes? Wesley has all the strengths of a vampire whilst keeping the…

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Integrity

There is a line from one of my favourite films which goes … ‘just walk away,  turn around…just walk away’…

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Why is it growing there…?

In its native Japan, Fallopia japonica is a component of communities inhabiting extreme lava and ash sheets at high altitudes.…

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What have I learnt?

My dog passed away recently and I miss her like mad – yet she was incredibly low maintenance – water/food/walk…

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What does it look like?

There are inevitably major differences in the habit and appearance of plants in their native and non-native situations, and Japanese…

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What’s important to you?

It’s a fairly simple question but the answers will vary dramatically from person to person. Family, friends, holidays, pets, comfort,…

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It’s the end of the world…

So today the server went down and yes, it did feel like the end of the world. For a business…

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The railway Knotweed children

Several years ago I found a strange looking plant on a site in Bolton near to the railway line, it…

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It’s the end of the world…

So today the server went down and yes, it did feel like the end of the world. For a business…

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I see dead things…

Ok …I might not actually see ‘dead things’ like the character in M Night Shayamalan’s film ‘Sixth Sense’ …but I…

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Notorious…

Japanese Knotweed is notorious for many things but perhaps its greatest claim to fame is its skill at colonizing new…

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