Sometime last year i posted (sorry, can't find the thread at the moment) about possibly moving up north (near Sheffield) and i got so many encouraging replies! Thank you all! 
As it happens things didn't work out quite as planned and i really would not have believed if anyone had said to me what was in store for 2015.
Anyway we have now moved up north, pretty much as far north as you can go without getting your feet wet 
We are living in Inverness!
Big change from London and I'm loving it!
Any MNers here from Inverness?
Just wanted to say thank you all for the encouragement and to anyone planning the same - do it ! It's great up here !