I have just spent 2 weeks walking the border area between the North of England and Scotland, through the largely rural areas that the 84 miles of the Hadrian’s Wall Path traverses. So rural affairs have been on my mind. Not least travel and questions as to what it would be like to live in such an area, as us urbanites navigated our way from Bowness-in-Solway to Newcastle. We used the local Bus for part of our journeying, which brought to mind thoughts of reports I recently re