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Pete G wrote: Ah the good old days when you could go to the Red Lion with a fiver, have a slap up meal, 4 pints of Waddys, crisps, peanuts and a whiskey chaser and still come home with £3 change. You can't do that these days. they have CCTV in there now.... ;/) PeteG At least the NT haven't bought Avebury's sense of humour - I suspect you may need it though, sooner or later. Unfortunately, I can't see any real alternatives to the current plans - no kids does unfortunately mean no schools, and with house prices being out of the range of anyone with kids, bang goes your local colour. Those that can afford it generally have their real interests elsewhere, commuting long distances to work and contributing nothing to the community as a whole. Of course, Avebury has the added problem of being somewhere quirky to buy a house and have friends round to go look at those quaint stones [that came out in an American accent when I read it...I do hope that's not a taste of the future]. The only villages that survive nowadays are those with an industrial past, with clusters of small two-bed millworkers' or quarrymen's cottages that are still cheap enough to buy. I remember when you could rent a house... Reply | with quote |  3rd June 2007ce 20:31 In reply to: Re: End of Cabbage Sunday (Pete G) |
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