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Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps: is he for real? Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Last week, I betrayed the homosexual parenting community. At Elton Johns insistence I tried to boycott Dolce & Gabbana, which was a great sacrifice for me, as other designer underwear makes my testicles look old.

As I have been appearing at a theatre in Dundee it has been difficult to find any Dolce & Gabbana outlets to boycott. Instead, I located a second-hand copy of Joe Dolces Shaddap You Face single in Grouchos records on the Nethergate, and pointedly refused to buy it.

But it has been a troubling week. News events, coupled with the liminal experience of spending time in Dundee, have conspired to make me doubt my own existence. And that of others. And that of all matter. It is the fault of the government.

Earlier this week the Conservative party chair Grant Shapps was revealed to have operated, even while an MP, a variety of ethically translucent internet business funnels under the alias of Michael Green, pseudonymous author of a book called How to Get Stinking Rich. Grant Shapps even wore a badge saying he was Michael Green at a 2004 conference, though apparently this was a joke, but one so subtle that many people took it at face value. Now he knows how I feel writing these columns.

Green, a non-existent man, marketed software that steers Google search engines towards particular information, manipulating our perception of reality. Fittingly, most traces of this Michael Greens HowToCorp company have since been erased from cyberspace, perhaps by his own software, jammed in reverse gear with an imaginary spanner.

How disorientating. Some 25 years ago now, in 1990, a young Grant Shapps hired me as the sole employee of his profitable live bait vending business, House of Maggots, which I didnt over firmly deny in the Observer last March. Grant Shapps and I spent many a moonlit night at popular Suffolk angling spots filling roadside fridges with comatose larvae, discarding maggots that failed to thrive, talking about our dreams. But who was the Grant Shapps that I imagined I knew all those years ago?

In August 1989 Grant Shapps had a car crash near WaKeeney, Kansas, on Interstate 70, his companion probably falling asleep at the wheel. Speaking to the Welwyn Hatfield Times in 2011, at the opening of a refurbished McDonalds in the region, Grant Shapps confessed: I was in a coma for the best part of a week and when I came round I recuperated in a Ronald McDonald home. Ive always been grateful to Ronald McDonald. Could this bizarre incident be significant?

The spring of 1989 saw a surge of UFO sightings in Kansas, clustered principally around the town of Russell, 60 miles west on Interstate 70 of Grant Shappss subsequent accident. The UFO-spotting season closed spectacularly in November 1989 at Goodland, 111 miles east, on the same road, when two women were abducted by aliens, and left unable to account for three hours of their evening. And in between those two spates of alien activity, geographically and temporally, lies Grant Shappss own crash and coma. Could this be the point at which the reality-moulding entity known as Michael Green somehow took possession of the future Conservative party chair? Did Grant Shappss Kansas blackout provide a gateway for the little Green man?

Given this Michael Greens self-professed ability to use software to rewrite our perception of our own history, and our own reality, I wondered if there ever was a Grant Shapps, as we understand him, at all? Grant Shappss Wikipedia entry is known to have been regularly and favourably massaged by unseen hands. But are these hands alien hands? Are they green? Could this Michael Green have inserted a rebooted Grant Shapps character, who never really existed, into our reality by a similarly deft manipulation of online records?

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History

When restoration work began at what is now Pleasant Valley Conservancy, the area was heavily infested with undesirable woody vegetation, both brush and trees. The original savanna oaks and hickories were still there, with their open-grown character visible, but surrounded and crowded with "bad" woody plants. The invaders were all fire-sensitive and had encroached during the 50 or so years since the last burns.

Early attempts to knock back the invasive woody plants by fire were unsuccessful, as there was insufficient fuel on the ground. In retrospect, fire should not have been used at that stage anyway, since all it would do was top-kill the woody plants, but not eradicate them. They would resprout from dormant buds and a bigger mess would be created. We were thus "lucky" that fire did not work.

Herbicides for weed control

Herbicides play a central role in restoration ecology, but they must be used carefully and with full knowledge of their potential activities. Each herbicide sold comes with a label that provides essential information about the chemical, its activity, and precautions that must be taken when using it. It is mandatory that before using any herbicide its label must be read and understood.

Uses of herbicides for specific weeds and woody plants are given below and on other pages of this web site. This link provides a summary of the main herbicides used at Pleasant Valley Conservancy.

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