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Having a sense of the luxurious is so important in life, I think. These days, when one can order almost anything on line with one click of a finger, the concept of the longed-for, planned-for, saved-up-for luxury is scorned by all too many of us.

But – and it is a very real ‘but’, not just a bitter quibble! – we stand the risk of losing something of inestimable value.

If everything is easy to get hold of, nothing is special or valuable any longer. If we can afford that holiday in Crete, or Rome, or Egypt, without really thinking, then something in our souls has become, or is in danger of becoming, sated, satiated – and our definition of luxury becomes ever-more expensive and rare.

I hear people all around me lamenting their lack of money – and then, casually in the next breath, saying, ‘Where are you…