Can I just say

[Ferret]

(20 November 2012, 01:13)Tarrel Wrote: Just read your intro, Ferret. Interesting background and situation you have.

We're 35 miles from Inverness. I wouldn't write off Scotland, especially if you already have a place up here. Great schools, reasonable job opportunities (esp. in the renewables sector), good infrastructure.

You have no idea how close we came. When we moved down to Durham it was for a 9 month locum. That was 19 years ago. We always intended to move back up north but life etc. Then we got the chance to move to Inverness, where we always to be but children.... we had three children half way through the English GCSE/A level system - it was too late to move. So Sutherland is our escape. All our daughters would die to go to Dornoch Academy but sadly it's not to be

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(20 November 2012, 01:03)Tarrel Wrote: Any middle-aged, middle-class Mum going by the name of Ferret deserves some respect, that's for sure. Just kidding, no offence!

Welcome from another relative newbie in Northern Scotland.

If you knew how I came by the name of ferret you would be laughing on the other side of your face! And no I am not going to divulge ;-)