There are so many new openings and refurbishments I could fill this column with reviews every week for three months.
He had already had a look at one on the market for £13m, he said, but it needed refurbishment, "so I thought I would leave that alone".
We are in the middle of a BSF refurbishment and I will not be around to see the finished article.
"It is going to be a transformative project, far more than just refurbishment, though I can tell you refurbishment is sorely needed".
I take particular satisfaction from refurbishment projects where I prepare and design the specifications and witness the transformation of a dilapidated building.
In June 1976, the Everyman closed for refurbishment, which meant I was out of a job.
Designed by the architectural firm Make, it's nothing special to look at either but it does bring an educational presence into the centre of town: a welcome move, not least because the local library had been shut for refurbishment shortly before I moved in.
When officials put papers in front of him last year to authorize the refurbishment of Pul-i-Charkhi prison, on the eastern edge of Kabul, he said he could not bring himself to do it and told them to get someone else to sign.
'When my restaurant closed for a year for refurbishment,' she told us, 'I helped out in their kitchen.
