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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'.

Right that's that done for another four or five years. My civic duty in exercising my democratic right to help decide the future of this country. I've done my bit for the election 2010.

So the Government has launched a review of housing market statistics because it is concerned that the myriad methods used for calculating house prices may be causing confusion.

Looking out of my kitchen window as I write this at a rainstorm of Noah-esque proportions, I think one might be forgiven for wondering if there is such a thing as a water shortage in this country.

Here and now I would like to categorically reassure the readers of this blog, of buildersmerchantsjournal.net and of BMJ that I have never published any stories that were acquired through the hacking of a mobile-phone.

When the Coalition Government took over nearly two years ago its economic plans went something like this: "Let's cut everything we possibly can, blame it all on those Labour chaps spending too much, and then ease off when things get better in a couple of years. That way we'll be seen as the good guys."

Great. We've spent a morning at the NMBS conference learning all about the opportunities offered by the Green Deal only to learn that the proverbial rug is about to be pulled out from under the industry's feet. Again.

Regular readers of this column may be shocked to find what purports to be support of the Government in parts of this piece. Rest assured, gentle reader, and please read on with as big a pinch of, if not quite sarcasm, then certainly irony, as you deem appropriate.

Some of you will be there already. Some of you are making your way there today. Others, like me, will be juggling work, childcare commitments and flight times and getting there at the last minute tomorrow.

The Beatles, ABBA, Take That and now UNIBUS or NMBER: as of next February there will be a new Supergroup to deal with.