Many thanks for your enquiry regarding Japanese Knotweed.

I have attached a link to an Environment Agency leaflet which gives lots
of information about JK and also how to treat it. Do you know the Scout
people – are you able to pass this onto them?

http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/GEHO0410BSBR-e-e.pdf

If at all possible it is better to get contractors to treat it however
it can be done yourself, the chemical which you use has clear
instructions on how to apply it.

If you need anything else please do not hesitate to contact me

Best wishes

The Ecology Hunter
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
London Borough of Knotweed upon Thames

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/wildlife_in_richmond

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/sectors/31364.aspx

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part ship/part biome/ecosystem
the lyrics to
m0ther natures on the run song
as the cosmic backdrop
inspiration

on the beach is the album that turns me on
sky about to rain
sublime

Escaping pig escorted safely home by PC

Residents of Royston had a shock on the morning of Wednesday 11 November (2009) when they looked out their window and saw an adult pig eating their rubbish!

The hungry porker must have had enough of the horses company and decided to wander out of her field between Church Hill and Cronkhill Lane, Royston by escaping through a collapsed fence.

Officers from Royston Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) were called and PC Kathryn Airstone managed to lure the pig safely back home with the aid of a bag of potatoes, donated by a local resident.

Royston SNT PC Katherine Airstone said,

“The poor animal had obviously been feeling a bit daring that day and she took her chance when she saw the open fence.

“Luckily we were able to tempt her with food before she walked out in front of a car which could have been really dangerous for her and the motorists.

“You could say we saved her bacon!”

http://www.themissinglist.co.uk/police-appeal/escaping-pig-escorted-safely-home-by-pc-cronkhill-lane-royston-barnsley

Lawrence, “Aristocracy of the Sun”

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This intensive way of reading, in contact with what’s outside the book,
as a flow of meeting other flows, one machine among others, as a series
of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing
to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to
interact with other things, absolutely anything…is reading with love

Gilles Deleuze

Brief synopsis for Scuttler text and ICA performance

As a bit of back drop weve written a script. we were at the national
theatre studio working on a short Tennessee williams play about dh
lawrenece for 3 weeks.
which is ongoing but out of this reserach/work/ expanded thought we
wrote a script and a character emerged based around the Roland Kirk
track ‘Inflated tear’
its about Kirk’s hospital experience i think, and going blind at the
end. You hear a voice shouting help him which is quite heavy which we
lifted as initial dialogue. our time working/ cleaning in nursing, old
people homes amidst a silent mining village or town, mental health
overlapping the workplace/ family makeup set aside a scorched
saddleworth moor thats being devoured and missed. returning home
quietly, but too mishaped to understand the void between you and them:
the scuttler cum ‘knocker-up’ he or she who would walk the early streets
banging on bedroom windows with a long broom/ a miners alarm clock,
often women our scuttler wanders the streets day and night in search/
for what? her brothers soul? lost to the moors once.
home help/ assisted suicide, the Williams play is an hour long death
scene, as are Lawrences letters, elegant, bleak and sacred,

THE SCUTTLER at the ICA

the play/script will form the basis /force/curatorial move/hook to hang
the night on we have invited a variety of artists/actors/performers and
mucians to activate the script in an expanded/experiemental/improvised
durational theatre work we will be there from midday/working /rehersal
but open to the public there will be no formal culmination as such but
we will have things emerging thru the day as we are getting to know
each other most wont have met until the day then by 7ish well start
something more formal in the main gallery and theatre space with films
in the cafe bar area. using the area and energies to dissipate through
the ICA corridors/ theatre/galleries/ bar which will close at 11pm in
which we will all move to the cafe bar til 1am