All of us, occasionally, feel we’ve got our lives wrong and that on some different parallel universe, just out of reach, we are living a better, richer, more fulfilled existence. As you get older, you occasionally feel that the opportunities for changing your future are narrowing, and you can’t help thinking, if you hadn’t done A, you might have been doing B by now. That maybe, somewhere along the way, you might have missed a turning.
Last week, I was doing a tour warm-up gig in one of those rather idyllic places in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside. You know the scene, all hollyhocks and converted barns and all-round enviable lifestyles, with double garages, outdoor barbecue areas and pizza ovens.
The type of place that makes you doubt some…
