The elevated section of the M4 motorway virtually touches the boundary fence of our daughter’s garden in Brentford, and underneath runs the incredibly busy A4 road.   There is a constant noise of traffic.   Yet there in the garden there grows a wonderful white rose bush, ignoring the traffic noise and fumes.

Looking east from the garden you can see the Edwardian houses of York Road and a huge advertising poster fixed on an old tower block, there to catch the eyes of the motorists approaching London on the M4.   And it give us the warning that we are nearly there after the long drive from Aberdeenshire.

Just peeping out from behind the poster you can see the new tower block and the cranes still busy building more and more flats in the area.   The old and the new indeed.