On the Verge of Something Interesting.

I recently left the West Coast of Canada to visit my father in the U.K. and was surprised at how beautiful 'the old country' still is, despite over the last ten years, having Europe's most rapidly growing population, essentially because more people are arriving than are leaving. I left in 2002 and if I thought the roads were busy then, it is nothing to the way they are now - driving anywhere during rush hour is inadvisable, because more often than not, it takes ages to move only a short distance - but the biggest surprise is what is growing…