However much one tries, it is impossible to attend all the industry events one is invited to throughout the year. With that in mind, here are the dates for your 2004 diary you really won’t want to miss …
This week, a Japanese contractor offers a lesson in worst practice, Ken laughs off his early congestion charge fears and Christmas raises hellfire in the office
This week, septuagenarian bikers tear up the countryside, Hobbiton hits the market, Ken the Pen looks for a home and a brief appraisal of the Holyrood design
This week, our man with the Fred Astaire cane sees a colleague pressed into a press launch, gets a lesson in fluency and catches up on the future of retail
This week we celebrate the charm of John Prescott, the generosity of Watkins Gray, the taste of Erisco Bauder and the television habits of Dennis Lenard's daughter
This week, architects get the silver-screen treatment, a QS looks more Quentin Crisp than Leonardo DiCaprio and a high street bank shows what it's made of
This week, a tabloid scoops an imaginary Bin Laden plot, Michael Caine makes Taywood's day and … the key to those PFI bids? Have God in your consortium
This week, a tabloid picks its industry stars, builders indulge in a spot of medieval mingling and the Crossrail boss has words with the railway children
This week, six builders take a class act to the Edinburgh Fringe, a contractor does business the family way and an architect takes a road less travelled