In Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan, the road signs might just take you by surprise:

• “Life is a journey! Complete it!”
• “Let nature be your guide”
• “Inconvenience regretted”

These life-affirming mantras are probably to be expected in a country which rejects GDP as the only way to measure progress, and instead proposes a new measurement: GNH – gross national happiness.

Uplifting.

I’m going to be thinking about that on my drive into work tomorrow.