As usual it seems, Chancellor Darling's last Pre-Budget Report for this Parliament (possibly ever), was a mixed bag full of , well, not very much. I suppose you could call it another curate's egg, although not a particularly nice egg.

I've heard it said that you know you're a proper grown-up when, at the first flurry of snow your reaction is not 'Yay, snow, hooray' but 'oh damn, how am I going to get to work tomorrow' or 'why do other countries manage to cope with the snow properly'.

So we got the boiler scrappage scheme in England. And judging by the rumours circulating around Twitter and the industry, we might be getting something similar for Wales and Scotland. Hurrah. Check out the Reheat Britain website for all the latest details.

I didn't get to go to the RICS election hustings event that Building magazine and Property Week ran last night but I rather wish I had. However, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, I've been made aware of some of the promises/ideas/pledges that were heard by the audience.

How come, it takes three successive quarters of contraction before we're officially allowed to say it's a recession, yet a measly 0.1% growth in one quarter is enough for the government to claim all its panic-efforts have worked and that the UK is out of the woods?

Last week, Huws Gray left the NBG buying group on the grounds that the company's expansion plans simply won't allow it to comfortably remain a partner in the group. The news took many people by surprise as Huws Gray's John Jones and Terry Owen have always been some of the most enthusiastic of the group's…

Those Meet the Merchant/Supplier speed dating events are a really good idea, aren't they?

Paul Morrell, the UK construction 'tsar' says that the construction industry doesn't have the same government respect as the car industry.

I'm going back onto my soapbox about the boiler scrappage scheme again. Bear with me, but there's been quite a lot of misinformation about it and I want to let off some steam.

The city is a fickle creature isn't it.