Did U stay Minicat?
Fen roads still have houses along them because it was easier to access the very muddy tracks! Which eventually became tarmacced. [sp].
The problem with new-builds is that they cause flooding many miles down the system. Villages are no longer small and friendly even when that friendliness is about everyone knowing everything.
Properties built 200+ years ago have in recent years been badly affected

. Also as stated previously, quarry tiles directly onto dirt floors and some built with thick stone walls. Bit like a cave, same temperature all year round

When we moved here in the 1980s it was a small village, in the last 5-6 years estates have been built: Little boxes, Little boxes, Little boxes all made of ticky tacky ! We would move to a remoter place with a view except that we have a very good dentist, a good GP Surgery, access to the Midlands and would need to get to a Hospital as we age. The Isle of Skye is too far from Inverness
