One thing I can't get to do in Canada is drone in on the pub about old children's TV programmes. You won't be surprised to learn that as a Brit, I didn't watch the same kids' programmes as the Canadians around the pub table. Which is a shame. There's nothing like old television to bring people together. With only three channels in the Central Belt when I was young, there was a lot of viewing in common. For example, there were no characters on Captain Pugwash called Roger the Cabin Boy, Master Baites or Seaman Staines. Nowadays it's not just geography that has cut the TV common ground from under our feet. There's the million channel universe and added streaming to pretty much guarantee that few people watched the same programmes the night before. Which, again, is more than somewhat of a shame.