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I approach most of our neighbours at speed, if they don't leap out of the way then it's too bad...

Opening old canals is a good thing...but expensive See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Link Culverts were expanded and loads of new bridges built when they did the Forth and Clyde and Union canal link...and of course the Falkirk Wheel After a lot of questionable capital funding from the Lottery, this project got huge public acclaim 16 years later you can see why. Great pump primer for everything from cycle paths to waterside development. Previously it was a dark contaminated drinking den...at least in Maryhill.???

I still think parish councils should lose their 106 contributions if they take you to committee and lose. Around here they take you to committee on grounds which are not even really valid. Then you get a full vote for permission at committee but delay of 2/3months.

Tough guy eh?

Genious! Although I think the idea could benefit from a little value engineering...... Just get rid of the wife and spend more time in bed with the cheerleaders. Purely to keep warm of course

A brief cautionary tale; We live in a chocolate box cottage in chocolate box hamlet in a chocolate box village in a chocolate box part of Lancashire. And we wanted a chocolate box house in our cottage garden. Outline PP, no problem. And then we discovered passivhaus. And a good architect. Over a year later, we no longer wanted a chocolate box design, we wanted green apples. The local reaction was a lot of chewing and spitting. But the planners loved it: waxed lyrical. Here's the point You can talk to people about why you want your house designed like it is until you're blue in the face. They don't listen.

Our plumbers had never heard of it but I made them use it on Nick's recommendation to fix the shower trays and anywhere silicone would have been used. So, our en-suite sink and cabinet were been bonded onto the tiles with Sikaflex. A few weeks later they had to be removed to get at the leak we had. Two plumbers, a joiner, multitool, global fish knife and much swearing and it still wouldn't budge. Finally got it off and cracked the sink in the process (invisibly fixed by MagicMan). Now they swear by it. - I've just used it to fit some 8mm U channel side on to the wall to take the son's shower screen and it's rock solid.

Say what?!? Even when I piss my wife RIGHT off, she doesn't chuck out 350w . If she did, I'd rip the boiler out and bring some cheerleaders home. Free heat . If I could find enough cheerleaders would that be considered 'renewable energy' ? ?

Yep. It's about decoupling: less surface area = less energy transfer. Probably some minor amount of energy absorbed in the bar itself (which will be even less in the "top hat" style), but decoupling is the major factor at work here.

When you have kids you need to be able to hear them when they are upstairs. As the moment the noise stops you just know some ones up to no good.