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Much like the fabled curate's egg, the Government's Housing Strategy released on Monday is good in parts. But only parts.

So today Thames Water Anglian Water and Southern Water have announced that they "believe it to be appropriate to end the current hosepipe ban sooner than anticipated".

Since I wrote this on Saturday, DECC ran a live webchat with Greg Barker MP this morning (Monday). They had 2000 people taking part and 650 questions submitted.

So, Ecobuild. What did we all think then?

It's been said that no-one does pageantry and pomp and circumstance quite like us Brits and I think that's spot-on.

I'm going slightly off tangent today, for which I make no apology, as it's a day to celebrate one of the things that makes us as a nation who we are.

We all knew that the Government's cack-handed reorganisation of the way energy companies fund energy efficiency improvements to meet their carbon emissions targets would end horribly.

I'm going to throw a few numbers around, if I may and this may turn into something of a lecture. For which I make no apology whatsoever.

Once upon a time, the Budget was full of surprises. Once upon a time, a Chancellor stood up in the House to reveal the plans that he - 'twas always thus - and his civil servants in the Treasury had been working on late into the night, after night and we didn't know what was…

The question many of us are asking is, can there be any more of the wet stuff left in the sky? Surely, we say to each other, there can be no more rain since I has all fallen into our rivers, canals and field, soaking the ground and making 'squelch' the sound for January.