Poster: A snowHead
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Anyone know if SH has support for any apps? If so which ones?! safari is a bit clunky..
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not as far as I know. With a default phpBB install, you could use Tapatalk, but AIUI, SnowHeads has been customised enough that it isn't supported under TapaTalk any more
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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:/ small world I used to live in Neots shame about the app..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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App would be great!
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Completely off topic, but what's St Neots like as a place to live? Was thinking of moving to Cambridge but house prices are so high there...
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xyzpaul, I like it. Biggest town in the county (Peterborough and Cambridge are cities) but still has a market town feel about it. Reasonably thriving high street, lots of parks and open areas both along the river and in town. New cinema due to open in a couple of weeks along with restaurants and whatnot. Railway station is on the East Coast main line so it's faster than the trains from Cambridge as it's got a 120mph limit to the Cambridge line 80mph limit. Kings Cross can be had in under 40 minutes if you get an expresss and trains run till 0130 so you can still get home from a night out in London if you so wish. Market on the square every Thursday (and I believe it's been that way since the 1200s), and a farmer's market once a month on a saturday. Decent sports center with pool and well equipped gym and lots of cycle trails and paths around the town.
I rented in Cambridge for a year before buying here for exactly the same reason, that the prices in Cambridge are so high. 20 minute drive to Cambridge, or get the X5 bus which takes a little longer.
Generally, of all the towns in the area, I think it's the nicest.
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feef, cheers - good to get your opinion as a local! Do you know what the commute to the business parks north of Cambridge is like?
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Not too bad. Cowley road and thereabouts? The A14 is the main route to the north of Cambridge, but also the weak link when there's an accident or roadworks causing it to get snarled up. From here you can miss out most of it taking the A428 and join down by Madingley, so you're only on the A14 for the last couple of miles.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Sold! Hehe have to consider it but thanks again feef.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If St. Neots doesn't fit the bill for some reason, I'd look at the villages around the North of Cambridge as from most of them you would be able to very easily cycle to the business parks and prices are a bit lower than in Cambridge itself. E.g. pick anywhere along the (mis) guided busway and you've got a great cycle route. Bike is by far the quickest and cheapest way to get around here. The A14 does seem to be a road with daily problems, so if you can avoid it I would.
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xyzpaul, I suspect lovely Peterborough is even cheaper than St Neots. Pboro isn't too bad a place to reside in the off season. WAYyyyyyy cheaper than Cambridge and better train link to Kings Cross though a season pass is a tad expensive. The drive to Cambridge is 40mins on a clear run, A14 is the snag point, but I found last year when I travelled that way a bit pre 7:15 on A14 seemed to miss the worst of the traffic. Around 250K will get a decent 4 bed detached in a okay area, there are plenty above that on the market, with say an executive study (cupboard) that seems to add 50-100K to a house. The MIL is looking at moving at the moment from a 3 year old 2-bed en suite, apartment in good area valued at £125 and getting a 2 bedroom terrace for same or less in okay areas. There are areas not to move to around Pboro, like anywhere I guess.
And back on topic an iPhone or Android app, ha ha ha ha ha. The website is still stuck somewhere in the 90s, be nice if the site actually rendered as a bit usable on a smartphone. But yes it's pretty poor nowadays not to support the mobile platform as I suspect a lot of traffic comes from mobiles or would. I do access via smartphone but it's really not a pleasant experience navigating around.
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You know it makes sense.
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there's a mobile view
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'd welcome an App, find the constant signing on thing a PITA
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Poster: A snowHead
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kieranm wrote: |
If St. Neots doesn't fit the bill for some reason, I'd look at the villages around the North of Cambridge as from most of them you would be able to very easily cycle to the business parks and prices are a bit lower than in Cambridge itself. E.g. pick anywhere along the (mis) guided busway and you've got a great cycle route. Bike is by far the quickest and cheapest way to get around here. The A14 does seem to be a road with daily problems, so if you can avoid it I would. |
Except you're starting to get into fenland territory there, and you won't fit in unless you have webbed buttocks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Keep heading north until you find some hills, we'll even have a decent train service to London by 2030 maybe!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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andy wrote: |
there's a mobile view |
Think that was designed in the days of WAP sites...
I used to live in St Neots too. It has the remarkable (in my experience) characteristic of all the businesses being named incredibly clearly, eg. if you want a motorbike you go to the St Neots Motorcycles; coffee machine for the office go and see the St Neots Coffee Co; an haircut go to The Barbers Shop (ladies can visit The Beauty Room). Doesn't seem weird reading it but have a walk around.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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stuarth wrote: |
and St Neots isn't? |
I was on "the island" at little Paxton quite nice but quiet, moved into cambs much preferred it personally but I was renting.
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St Neots is nowhere near fenland. Too far west.
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feef wrote: |
St Neots is nowhere near fenland. Too far west. |
Don't know why, but I was confusing St Neots with Wisbech!
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