Written without intent, waking suddenly at 6 am on 6 August 2014. Having penned it, I turned over at 6.25 am and had another hour. Later, the first reports on the news that Europe’s first spacecraft Rosetta is entering a triangular orbit around Comet 67P after “a ten-year chase”. 

I write this because my patience is tried when I’m asked to abandon all logic and to accept that the entire Universe is only eight thousand years old. I’ll turn over again!