Ok people, there’s maybe four or five inches of snow out there and the country has come to a standstill. But the Government never sleeps.
I’ve just had a press release from the DCLG explaining that the snow is a great opportunity to help meet the Government’s housing targets.

Housing minister Margaret Beckett says:
“Snow is the ultimate [...]

Took a ramble over to readersheds.co.uk a few days ago, and my how they’ve grown!
What began as a bit of fun at the end of the garden has mushroomed into an internet phenomenon with forums, blogs, celebrity involvement, merchandising, flickr groups, and, I kid you not, TV shedcasts (yea!)
Uncle Wilco, the man behind the site, [...]

From the latest Hometrack report … while they rightly caution against calling the bottom of the market, this is an interesting trend:

George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, green campaigner and the chattering classes’ favourite eco luvvie, has suddenly gone completely mad and declared war on … the Aga.
Now look George, I have to tell you, it’s all well and good getting shirty about Terminal 5, recycling, Shell, etc, but quite another to start criticising the lifestyles of media [...]

Sarah Beeny, in typically forthright style, says she wouldn’t miss being on the goggle box, but her old man might be a bit miffed:
“I still don’t like the lack of privacy that goes with it. I’ve been on television for the past seven years, which is incredible really. My husband would mind though.
“I was a [...]

Well done to the FT’s excellent Alphaville blog for spotting an interesting chart in the Nationwide’s quarterly report – one that suggests house prices are just a hair’s breadth away from returning to their long-term trend.
The diagonal line is the long-term trend; the drunken squiggly one plots how house prices have deviated wildly from the [...]

We’re easily amused here at Winging It – a picture of a monkey or a YouTube video of a dancing cat is usually enough to have us chortling happily.
But it takes something a bit special to make us howl so dementedly that we’re in danger of rupturing major internal organs.
So be warned: this stupendous spoof [...]

You’ve just been to the office Christmas party. You snogged Ingrid from accounts, called your boss a fat fool, and set your face on fire with a badly aimed flaming Sambuca.
It hasn’t been your finest hour, and now you’re wandering the cold and frosty streets with a dead mobile, half a bottle of Pernod, tinsel [...]

Don’t know about you, but I can’t say I find the words “partially converted” very reassuring … not when it comes to a nuclear bunker.
It’s bad enough now, but how hard is it going to be to find a builder after a full scale nuclear attack? (“Sorry mate, can’t start this week, all my tools [...]

Roll up, roll up, ladeez and gen-tel-men …
It has oodles of history, fantastic sea views, plenty of privacy and no real neighbours to speak of. And if you live here you’re unlikely to be bothered by door-stopping salesmen.
Totland Pier on the Isle of Wight, a slightly dilapidated Victorian charmer that rolls up its trouser legs [...]