There was something that caught my eye on a television programme recently, just one of those antiques programmes burbling in the background, as they tend to do...

And a very elegent well-spoken elderly lady, from Austria originally I believe, was extolling the virtues of Britian.

She said with emphasis: "I'm more pro-British than the British!"

Her story was, that as a young child, she along with her parents had managed to escape from the Nazi's. The other seventeen members of her family had died in the death camps.

I found it remarkable and inspiring, that to this very day, multiple decades after her relocation here, she retains such a great pride in, and admiration of, Britain.