Good - work for lots of builders, restorers, assessors etc. An afternoon drive for rubber neckers. A chance to refurbish, re-arrange houses. Gets people out of houses and into a what is a village spirit that was probably not there many years ago anyway. Still haven't some people in the village yet! Politicians talk endlessly about communities and creating and fostering them - people's social networks are much more diverse nowadays with the advent of easy travel and the internet (IM, Facebook, Bebo etc) The old image of concentric circles encompassing your different network of friends/ relatives are a little less easy to categorise nowadays. Communities are based more on culture, built upon the artefacts, beliefs and the core philosophy, which is hard to change. We would like to think self-reliance is at the core of the village life, whether through necessity of lack of support or through a group wish.
Bad: - disruption, stress, loss (financial and especially personal, people's art works and calligraphy)
Ugly - the smell, the slight sleights of people trying to help, the boredom of retelling the story over and over again!
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