Oh, and the next village - calls itself a town and with a population of 2,500 I suppose just qualifies - when we came had three banks open Monday-Friday, a health centre, a hardware shop, a greengrocers, a ladies' hairdresser, three pubs (one a hotel) a Ford agency, a small cafe, a charity shop - for local charities, not any national ones - a corner shop/newsagent, a barber, and a smallish Co-op. It has lost one pub, the hardware shop, the barber and the greengrocer and two banks with the remaining one now only open of Thursday, and a second corner shop has opened. Compared to some of the experiences on here we don't seem to be doing too badly, but I suppose one reason is that we are not the sort of area to attract second homes from townies, being only 13 miles from Perth and 15 from Dundee.
Mike