But it’s not real life. It’s just America.

I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out...

We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of.

Then it comes to him – how you can’t return to a place you’ve never been to, can’t recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.

Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that’s disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.

The next important date is May 10, when the planning application comes before Cardiff City Council's planning committee.

Every six to nine months, 99 percent of the space inside the museum changes. That's a big undertaking.

There have been more than 90 exhibits since we opened in 1986. In all that time, we've had only one or two paid staff members.

The real surprise to me is the shock and astonishment that everyone has greeted the news with.

We're really lucky. We don't have a large collection. Most of what we use is loaned to us from members of the community.