Fans of TV programmes such as Property Ladder or Grand Designs might have noticed there is a key ambition shared by many of the aspiring developers, self-builders and house-hunters in general. And it has nothing to do with the energy efficiency, the number of bathrooms, or even the location.
 

While the papers and news broadcasts have been full for the last fortnight, relating stories of world leaders and environmental campaigners having meetings through the night to hammer out a deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Plastic Surgeon has been keeping up its own round-the-clock efforts to save the planet.

While the Fine Finishers – as per usual – were plying their trade up and down the length of the country, back at the company’s head office, the company’s top trainer, Ian, was turning his attention to a rather different class of candidates.

 

An urgent repair carried out recently by a couple of our Fine Finishers at a hotel in the south west started me wondering about how our work ought to be classified. Basically rain had been getting through a car park deck into the swimming pool hall of the Derwent Hotel in Torquay; unfortunately causing some quite serious...

Generating a blog definitely brings a new perspective to everyday life and should, I think, repeatedly pose the question: are the matters and meanderings that I’m banging on about really of any interest to the people out there surfing the ‘net.

Watching television last night reminded me of why I love the English language so much, the reason being that it is so immensely adaptable. It can be ambiguous, saucy or ironic, as well as sarcastic or bitingly rude – it can be descriptive, poetic or political, while in law and medicine it has to be totally unequivocal.

Calls this week for schoolchildren to begin receiving careers advice from the age of seven met with predictably mixed reactions from parents, teachers, and the wider public; comments varying from cautiously welcoming the initiative, to saying it’s too young or how can it be shoe-horned into an already over-crowded curriculum?

The MMC agenda may be moving sections of the building industry away from some of the more inefficient practices of the past, but new legislation now means that controlling waste is not only desirable on environmental grounds, but actually becomes a financial necessity. And therefore repairing damaged products...

Concerns about the health of the Prime Minister’s eyesight have led to a number of articles in the press over recent days, with some of the stories setting out to explain the way in which the human eye functions.

Much of the coverage concentrated on the occurrence of so called ‘cobweb’ tears in the retina and the effect on a person’s vision, but ignored this fragile filament’s

Things could be hotting up for us at Plastic Surgeon - the Olympic Delivery Authority has just signed up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill initiative. Which could mean that we will get involved with the Olympic scheme, seeing that we do a lot of repair work...