• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Best Place to Live?

Rod

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BBCNews:

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"Winchester is the best place to live in the UK in terms of quality of life, a study has found.
Scotland's Orkney Islands took second place, while Wychavon in Worcestershire came third in the Halifax study.
It looked at a range of factors including life expectancy, health and employment rates.
One key measure was Winchester's weekly earnings which, at £824, were found to be 27% higher than the UK average of £646."

Didn't mention very high house prices though!

Rod
 
The Orkneys came second! Really? That's some sort of joke. I've got a client building a house up there. His blockwork blew down 3 times in the course of construction. Three times!!! I had to design doors on 2 different facades so that they could get out of the other if the wind was blowing directly onto one of them.....and this despite being behind 6 foot high stone walls to provide some shelter for the doors! Nothing grows above knee height, and all the shrubs lean at 45 degrees. I'll bet it's lovely on the 3 days a year it isn't caught up in gales, snow, or endless driving rain.
 
Have you seen the woodwork in the spire of that cathedral, Rod? It's some of the best mediaeval woodwork anywhere in the world.
 
Mike you are not getting Winchester mixed up with Salisbury ( which I've been up during restoration works) - Winchester hasn't got a spire but a tower?
Winchester has the longest nave and famous for being built on boggy land and supported on Elm logs though they had to be beefed up in the early 1900's with concrete and brickwork.

Rod
 
Rod":njyll817 said:
Mike you are not getting Winchester mixed up with Salisbury ( which I've been up during restoration works) - Winchester hasn't got a spire but a tower?........
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Yes I was. Thanks. Anyway, have you seen inside the spire of Salisbury cathedral? ;)
 
Salisbury Cathedral - yes, I went on a technical visit a few years back, when they were doing renovation works.
There's a small exit door near the top where you can look out - quite scary!
Also walked over the ceiling voids - only a few inches of rendered stone work holding you up.

Rod
 
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