Just what everyone needs, a Rowan Williams bear!

I’m just thawing out after a week with no heating or hot water.. brrr! I must have gone soft while I’ve been down South, but it’s no fun typing when your fingers are turning blue.

When I was very small we used to watch the Space Shuttle’s televised launches and landings in awe of these near superhumans who could fly into space, I remember the Challenger disaster very clearly – but remember more the way my parents and other people around me reacted to that, than how I felt at [...]