Clap for Carers much shorter and fainter than usual here tonight... No banging of pans, no fireworks. Perfunctory, even. Almost as though people think lockdown is over and they don't have to fucking pretend to care any more.
I will clarify by saying that, certainly on my street, the volume of clapping has been in inverse proportion to how much people have actually bothered to observe the lockdown rules. I guess I just needed a little shout into the void (hello twitter).
@dogrando@smallcat And he spoke about all the cool space stuff that ESA is doing, and the fact that there are no boundaries in space, and I nearly did a cry at least 3 times and he got by far the biggest round of applause of the day #ilovejan
@dogrando@smallcat Yesterday I saw a talk by Jan WΓΆrner (Director General of ESA) and he was so completely inspiring about the fact that all ESA astronauts are European (as opposed to EU) and focusing on the future for collaboration