Madonna's next country home...Daylesford?

Each year, a flocking phenomenon occurs amongst city dwellers, in response to rising costs of city habitat, dwindling family time, stressful traffic, poor health or high pressured, high paid jobs. Around the world, urban professionals are migrating in droves to commuter-distant villages; embracing rural ways, wearing True Religion jeans, Barbour jackets and Prada wellies (okay that might just be me?). In England, this phenomenon is referred to as the “New Squirearchy”.

The Queen of New Squirearchy has to be Madonna, and as such she's was been a big inspiration for my flying the city coop and landing in rural Daylesford. If she can move  to the slow hum of the English countryside, write children's books about english roses and embrace Harris Tweed, then so can I. Interestingly, many people over the years have commented on the similarities  between Madonna and myself...Read more...