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So we've got some Quantitative Easing. You know, where the Government pumps some more money into the economy in order to get it moving again. Hurrah. Except all this extra money has been used to buy gilts.

Way back in June at the NMBS Conference, Roger Black told the assembled delegates that a cyclist sponsored by an independent builders merchant - Elliotts in Southampton - had been selected to ride for Team GB.

So, much of Britain hunkers down for another few days being hampered by the white stuff.

In this industry it seems there are as many differing opinions as there are people; twice as many solutions as there are questions and at least one counter-argument for every proposition.

Has the statue in your town centre suddenly sprouted a brightly coloured scarf? Fear not, gentle reader, for you are neither imagining things, nor going loopy.

This morning I watched my 18 year old neighbour head off for the school where he's just finishing his A level exams. When he's completed them, he has three months of partying, travelling and a bit of part-time working before he goes to university.

Two blog posts in the same newsletter on the same topic might seem over the top, but I make no excuses.

Wolseley UK has re-joined the BMF. Which is nice.

“I want to be an architect, so that I can design hideous buildings that people loath, that are out of step with popular culture, the environment and everything around them”. Said no-one, ever.

Blimey it's a bit of a mess down there in South Wales. By that, I don't mean the actual place nor the people, all of whom are, in my experience, rather lovely. Rather, I'm referring to the metaphorical mess that Tata, the owners of what was once the British Steel mills, seems to have got…