After I married I left the S.Wales Valleys and lived in five valleys of Stroud and loved it. With the beautiful scenery and Cotswold stone buildings as a backdrop, Stroud life was a harmonious mixture of bohemia, old money shabby chic and the eco-concerned - before the latter was hijacked by dudeism, monetisation and politics. Every second car in the area seemed to be a clapped out Renault 4. I revisit the area about every two months and the place has been slowly overun by Cheltenham money and G