Andy Dingley wrote:
Looking to the future, I'd base your possible stay/move choice much
more on how isolated your location is, not on the bungalow/flat
choice. My parents' "retirement bungalow" was bought a couple of years
(age-wise) after yours and they saw 20 years of very active gardening
and pottering there. Their heating choice was coke C/H, as they didn't
have a gas connection either. Mum died a couple of years ago, Dad has
now moved into a nursing home, but the time when "sheltered
accomodation" would have been actually useful to them (given that they
already had a well-sorted bungalow in a good area, albeit slightly
isolated) was very short - maybe 6 months at most.

Sounds like your husband needs to take up gardening 8-)

Vegetable gardening - he could save on food bills that way.