And many other houses built at the same time are no more. There is a certain amount of survivor's bias going on. (View Post)

Breeze blocks are old hat now. Many being built around here have wooden insulated frames that go up in a matter of days, with a brick outer shell. As can be seen being erected here: (Yes, I go around… (View Post)

A lot of HK'ers have moved to our village. I find it uplifting that many have apparently taken to gardening, seeing it as a very British thing to do. Several of the new houses have rather pleasa… (View Post)

See my post below. I have arable farmers in my family; and they were generally in favour of GM crops in the 1990s. What really ****** them off was the concept of terminator genes, meaning seed retent… (View Post)

We could. And if you came to my part of the town - built around 2000 - you can see that they succeeded. But please don't ignore the important part of my post - you could have a lovely, well buil… (View Post)