There is a saying that the devil is in the detail and it’s only in the last year or so that I’ve really begun to understand what this means. The last few weeks have been a masterclass. It’s the detail of everyday living that you take for granted. We have filters that enable us to live in a detail-ridden world without taking every single thing in every second of each day. We don’t hear the ticking of a clock in a room we inhabit after a while. We habituate. If we didn’t the wo

We’ve spent the last 6 days with Roman in Gorzow Wielkopolski – our first taste of Polish life and one that’s yielded pleasant surprises. As Roman laughingly put it on our arrival, goading us ever so slightly and disarming any latent negative stereotypes we may unintentionally harbour of his country; Poland has all mod cons, including internet (which we’ve found more readily accessible than in Germany). Roman has been the perfect host, welcoming us into his new home and actin