However, that did not matter one jot to Lek, she loved everything that she had seen so far: shabby old, run-down Heathrow airport, where they had desperately needed an ATM only to find that most of them were out-of-order; the run-down train that took them to shabby Cardiff Central and then the miserable weather that greeted them and on top of al that, Craig’s run-down flat. He found it al terribly embarrassing and terribly depressing, but Lek said that everything she had seen so far was ‘too beautiful’. Once again, she thanked her Buddha, Craig and the British government in her heart for getting her to Britain. There was six months’ dust over everything and nothing in the fridge, because it had been turned off. He had left the heating on a thermostat though

