This blog I have not updated in some years. However, it isn’t being neglected. I simply don’t have much to say at the moment that hasn’t already been said, or I’m otherwise learning other aspects of life from everything that I do. I hope that people still find use in the material here and I hope that in the future this also applies; I hope to publish some more material, after some years.
I am, for those that are wondering, still working in the arboricultural sphere. In particular, I am working in the planning and development sphere. This sphere is sometimes a rather rabid beast and there’s a lot to digest. It’s interesting, as I’ve found I’ve learned more about matters not directly associated with arboriculture, though in learning about other matters I have improved vastly in more holistic terms and that has helped me do better in the arboricultural sphere.
That, I think, is the point of this quick post: don’t go through your arboricultural career with puritanical blinkers on, for I think that it’ll be the undoing of things. It may well be the undoing of you, too – sooner or later, anyway.
In saying that, I mean it when I say that the planning and development sphere is rabid. It will devour everything, if it’s not kept in line. Some things are worth devouring and other things are not; and people will disagree until the world ends on what those things are.
Have fun!
Arboriculture 
Great to see you back and active here again! It seems that some of your former output [which is indeed still very relevant and frequently referred to, even with the continuing mystery to some of your identity!…] was sort of on the back of an academic course. Is that the case again? Otherwise, what has prompted the revival? I look forward with eager anticipation to your always interesting insights.
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Hi Anthony. Yes, a lot of prior technical stuff was academic-related, though the religion-related posts to do with trees and subsequent ones on trees in planning were out of my own interests. As for why I posted this now, I was watching a particular podcast and something that was said made me want to check in here with a quick update and comment. That’ll probably be it for now as I am very busy with life generally at the moment 🙂
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Anthony
Your blog is/was always interesting reading and I hope that you can continue to nourish our arbofilic minds. I have been working as an arboricultural “expert” here in the Mediterrenean basin for well over 30 years so your blog provides good well balanced technical/academic ideas for people like myself are not in the loop of the Day to Day évolution of are in the UK.
keep it going when you can
Jonathan
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