When I turned thirty, I decided it was time to return to the UK, to see if I would feel any more at home there. Flying in over the English landscape, my heart soared when I saw the patchwork of green fields. I was home, even though I hadn't seen it in more than twenty years.

I am happier here than I was in SA, and it's that which leads me to wonder what it would be like if I'd never left.