Getting from Swansea to anywhere in the Midlands isn’t the easiest of tasks. It’s a journey I do about three to six times a year, and it’s a pain. I’ve tried the M42 (now with added ‘why not use the hard shoulder as well?’ madness), bits of the M40, the M1, the M69, the A46. It’s a nightmare of scary five-lane junctions springing from nowhere, of turn-off-this-road-to-stay-on-it idiocies, and generally bad junctions. I’ve tried everything…

…well, nearly everything anyway. Everything except this novel route. It was Microsoft who asked you where you wanted to go today. I didn’t realise their way of getting there was quite that imaginative.