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Sometimes I nerd out and spend time learning something quite beyond my realm. In fact, my whole professional life I have been an avid learner; a collector of info, knowledge and skills really. Sometimes you just never know how things might tie together!

Wood Solutions is a fantastic Australian organisation that run very informative CPD sessions for the construction industry. I joined one today about fire testing, assessments and NCC compliance. It was all totally new (and a bit bamboozling, truth be told!), but as I'll be building a tiny house, understanding fire rated products seemed important!

It's not like I don't buy from IKEA. It's not like I was under any illusion they're a good corporate citizen and not an environmental disaster. But I still found this article extremely illuminating. And more than a little off-putting.

IKEA is owned by a Dutch foundation with no shareholders and no owner, an arrangement that protects the company from any takeover, keeps its tax bill low, and for years left it running the world's wealthiest charity and one of its least generous... Ask who owns IKEA and the honest answer is that almost nobody does, by design. The Swedish furniture retailer, founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943, is not