I've lived up there since 1980. I bought a large old house, an old farm house. I've been to every one that they've asked me to. Not so often in the States because I have to take time off to go over there. If I'm there I've attended them.
Conventions seem to attract the cult minorities, the real fanatics.
No, it doesn't surprise me. Of course, in England you don't get the lunatic fringe which you can get in America. People tend to get carried away over there. They say that at one time America tilted towards California and that everything that wasn't nailed down slid into California and that accounts for it. No, I keep busy doing voice-overs.