On 7 Jun 2006, at 18:25, Canfield, Joel wrote: > broke my heart driving round Eire seeing old stone cottages falling to > ruin because it wasn't financially feasible to maintain or update > them. > understandable, but sad. The real killer for most of these is services - power, phone, water/ sewage. These things are easy if they're going past your door. Trying to persuade utilities companies to dig a 5 mile trench to your ruin is never going to be fun. Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ Sell Cloth Nappies from your website: http://www.purpur.co.uk/announcing-purpur-associates