She's one of pop's most poised stars, choosing her words carefully and brushing away personal questions with a practised affability.

There was a playfulness and affability that was lacking this year, and was instead replaced by tension, haughtiness, indifference and downright rudeness — a sentiment that I heard from multiple camp mates, both old and new.

And Johnson, who devotes “two to four hours a week” to his project, has just the right mix of passion and affability to nudge labels in the right direction.

Those relationships, and Bylsma’s apparent affability, might have factored into the search.

Before it all sits an elongated train station, a mix of Victorian grandeur and small-town affability.