Someone told me to find somewhere more convenient to live. Where? Living in a town is not like living on an estate. For instance, in town, you have to negotiate traffic, find somewhere to park, walk to your house and talk to passing neighbours, whereas on an estate you can easily park in your drive and you can ignore neighbours.
Every year or two we open our gardens, gardens that are hidden havens behind our house. I blogged years ago about about our old town gardens, at Secret gardens opening. We opened again this year and had lots of visitors to contribute to our charities (including Florence Nightingale Hospice). Here's a link to Ron Adams Flickr stream for this year's secret gardens.
Living in the town means I can walk to the library, the bus station, the train station, the churches, the shops, the pubs (and drink without driving), the coffee shops to meet friends every day. The old town residents also get sociable with a wine tasting on the last Monday of the month, a street book club and s. Living here is convenient.
