If you’re replacing your carpet with new carpet, you might be able to use your old underlay. This is dependant on how long the existing carpet has been down for and also the condition of the underlay. But if you’re getting wood, laminate or vinyl flooring it’s not suitable. It will put stress on the joints if you use underlay.
Dunbeath
Dunbeath is a town in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It was the birthplace of Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), writer of The Silver Darlings, Highland River etc., many of whose books are set in Dunbeath and also its Strath. Dunbeath has an extremely abundant historical landscape, the website of numerous Iron Age brochs and also an early medieval reclusive site (see Alex Morrison's archaeological survey, "Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape".) Of Dunbeath's landscape, Gunn composed: "These tiny straths, like the Strath of Dunbeath, have this intimate charm. In boyhood we are familiar with every square yard of it. We incorporate it literally and also our memories hold it. Birches, hazel trees for nutting, pools with trout as well as a sometimes noticeable salmon, river-flats with the wind on the bracken and also going away bunny scuts, a wide range of wild flower as well as small bird life, the rising hawk, the unexpected roe, the ancient graveyard, ideas of the individual that as soon as lived much inland in straths and hollows, the past as well as the here and now held in a moment of day-dream." ('My Bit of Britain', 1941.). There is an area museum/landscape analysis centre at the old village college.