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As something of an Olympic geek, and a girl to boot, the speaker line-up of this year's NMBS all-industry conference was always going to grab my attention.

Dear Father Christmas

If the mark of a good conference is that it leaves you thinking about it for days afterwards, with ideas that you are mulling over for your business, then I'd say that made this year's BMF All-Industry Conference a good conference.

They say confession is good for the soul. So, here goes: my name's Fiona and I think I may be a NIMBY.

Imagine if you will, the following conversation in, say, a hospital: "Doctor, doctor. The patient is recovering too quickly. We must do something about it. We should change his medication or give him fewer pills. We don't want to nearly kill him (again) we just don't want him to get too healthy, too quickly. What…

It's back!! The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund has been re-opened.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry Mr Cameron but I really think we have heard it all before. So you've decided that the way forward, the way to win the next election, is to promise 200,000 new homes which will be sold at a discount for first time buyers.

Lovers of irony will appreciate the juxtaposition of some of the news stories on the website this week.

I was sitting in my toasty warm living room yesterday, looking out at the 'snow drifts' in the garden (aka 'a light dusting' - I live in Kent, where we call four flakes of snow a blizzard), when the doorbell rang and it was the man from npower (other energy companies are available), asking for…

It's all gone a bit odd out there. I'm all for a bit of nice Indian Summer weather at the beginning of September to make us feel as though the long, dark nights of winter are still some way ahead. But 34deg during the second week of September feels faintly ridiculous somehow.