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Imagine if you will, the scenario: the quiet calm of the home office is shattered by screams and curses from the next room. Has a mad axe-wielding murderer leapt through the window wreaking havoc on my nearest and dearest?

What a difference a couple of years makes.

A little information is a dangerous thing. And no-where is this more in evidence than in the arena of health and safety. At the risk of sounding all 'Daily Mail', there's an awful lot that gets done in the name of health and safety to ruin our fun/workplaces/chances of making a reasonably honest living.

When Sunday Times economics editor David Smith addressed THE Conference, the all-industry conference in Cyprus back in 2005, he did so during a period of unprecedented growth and prosperity for the UK construction industry.

So the Government has decided that it needs to help small builders and tradesmen in the construction industry who may be struggling to get credit so that they can buy materials.

Hurrah for the Government. It's not often this blog features those words and they are, naturally, slightly tongue in cheek. However, Help to Buy part 2 launches today and that is cause for some, if not celebration, then at least optimism.

So another Ecobuild exhibition has been and gone. The amount of planning, preparation and money that goes into exhibiting and it's over before you even know it. Like the proverbial curate's supper egg, Ecobuild had its good bits. It had its interesting bits and it had its 'what on earth are they doing here?' bits.

Sometimes it's nice to be able to say 'I told you so'. Often though, it's more of a pyrrhic victory.

So. It's back. Hurrah.

There is, according to the open letter in today's Telegraph, a "remarkable degree of consensus on the business case for tackling emissions.