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When we lived in a cave we lived with our extended families, when we came out of our caves we lived within our tribe, then it was village life and most of our life was spent with others within a 20-mile radius (the distance a reasonably fit horse could make a return journey in a day). Then something happened, there were more and more of us and less and less in terms of our contact time with our direct family – have you counted recently the distances between your direct family members? With my brother in Ibiza, one sister in Devon and the other in Kent, my children in Sussex and my wife and I living in the suburb of Bondi Beach down under, you ...

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