By pure chance was watching the BBC tonight when not one but two pieces of TV on the polar bears and the arctic were screened - one which dealt with Svalbard, where Ed and I were a little over a month ago, and where polar bears are struggling to cope with the warming tempaeratures; and the other which talked about this giant 10 mile long sheet of ice which has broken off from the coast and is now floating….alarming more evidence of what we all know is happening. The piece on Svalbard reminded me of the stunning beauty of the frozen wilderness, yet when one of their sleds fell through into a thinner than normal ice, it brought home the very fragile nature of that environment. Let’s hope the melting of the polar ice caps is not accelerating as many experts now fear…