Seminar 2017
WEDNESDAY 17TH MAY 2017, 10:00AM UNTIL 3:30PM THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (MOSI), MANCHESTER JKSL are pleased to invite you to our annual seminar, ‘Apocalypse Now’. This year’s theme covers threats posed to the environment and welcomes a broad range of speakers from television, literature and leading government bodies including: • Michaela Strachan (TV […]
The best things in life …
Do you ever wonder to yourself …what’s it all about? Life, love, work… everything …what really is it that we are all trying to achieve? Of late I have become aware of a trend whereby young (I say ‘young’ meaning ‘younger than me’) men with families just pack in their jobs and become house fathers. […]
They think it’s all over ….
As I travel around the country I see different levels of knowledge about invasive species and the impacts that they have. These differing levels range from the ones in a complete panic to those that are complacent. The ones in a panic have generally heard all the horror stories of damage to buildings and loss […]
Are invasive species actually useful?
I’ve been having a bit of a mid-life crisis recently where I begin to question everything that I do? I’ve been dealing with invasive species for the last twenty years or so and have been pretty clear in my mind what it is that I’ve been doing. We have ‘native’ plants and we have ‘non-native’ […]
DJ Risk and MC Hazard
Hazard and risk are not (surprisingly) a drum & bass duet, as the title suggests. The terms, “hazard” and “risk” are ones we all come across on a regular basis, but many people find the two difficult to define or differentiate. In health and safety, “hazard” and “risk” have established meanings (although these meanings are […]
Feeling Guilty?
When I qualified as a landscape architect, one of the first jobs that I had was tidying up small areas of waste ground in Oldham. These areas were pretty straight forward in that anything you did would be an improvement – full of old prams, shopping trolleys and any other discarded rubbish that couldn’t find […]
Manchester United
Sat watching the football on a Saturday afternoon imagining myself as one of the two managers – running my business whilst organising things from the sidelines. But am I the quiet calm manager… or the screaming madman gesticulating wildly as the team ignores my demands?? It’s amazing seeing the different managerial styles – both successful […]
What Actually are Invasive Species?
I was recently involved in an exchange on twitter where my understanding of the term “invasive species” was questioned, so I thought I would look into other points of view and share a little information. In many places (particularly South Africa and Australia), “invasive species” is a term used exclusively to identify non-native species which […]
It’s taking over…
I’ve got to a stage in my life where I’m becoming a real adult, you know what I mean… not the ‘I’m 18 mum, I can do what I want’ type of adult but the ‘I have a car and a house and bills to pay’ kind of adult. I started working at JKSL in […]
The Whole Picture
Have you noticed how watching a movie on a DVD just isn’t the same as watching the film at the pictures? The film is the same, the content is the same but you end up coming away feeling a bit ….muuuuh….and just not enjoying it. Go out to the movies, have a box of popcorn, […]
