I’ve grown accustomed to this mesmerising landscape with its vast skies, deep green valleys and alluring light at the border of Wales, and now it’s nearly time for us to leave. The soft pink light fades quickly to dusk; the valley resonates with gentle bird chatter and then settles into silence as another day ends in this country idyll far away from home.

Tomorrow we’ll be back in the city, returning with strange discontinuity to the routines and stresses of our other, urban life. But for now I’m at the edge of this dream world, watching the night envelop the valley, prolonging the idyll.