It's a way of getting massive amounts of folks to go out and raise money for the Red Cross.

I don't know if anybody is doing any stunts quite like this.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.