One of, if not THE most frequently asked question I get from over here is “Why?” Why did we move to England? Why Basingstoke, in southern England? When we tell them that we’ve always wanted to live in England, they get this look like you’d have to be out of your mind to want to live here. And I suppose part of that is the idea that everyone harbours that their home town/country/region is boring and that no one with any sense would voluntarily move there. But for us, it really comes down to one thing.

Nearly everything we’ve ever loved…..the songs, the history, the culture, the TV…they’ve all come from this ridiculous little isle that’s had such a disproportionate effect on the world. From James Bond to Austin Powers, Monty Python to Harry Potter, The Beatles to Queen, Highlander to just the history of the place. So much of what has influened and entertained us has started right here.

In being here, you experience things that you just can’t imagine watching it on tv. As we visited London last weekend, we went to the Museum of London, which talked about the fact that the city has been continuiously inhabited for over 2000 years. As we walked through St. Pancras square, I couldn’t help but imagine who else had walked there. Henry VIII? John Lennon? Arthur Conan Doyle? The weight of the history can practically be felt.

These are the things I love about this country and why we’re here.