It is often said that 'home is where the heart is, but recently I have come to think that it is more than that. Home is the place the heart makes us seek. It is the place that the person we have not yet become makes us stretch to find as if we somehow carry a forwards-echo of it even before knowing it's outward face. At the closing of an old year, the arrival in my life of my sweet friend Monty was followed closely by a convergence of circumstances that meant I found myself unexpectedly seeking a new place to live for us both and having to take him with me on many roads, all too...