Obviously it isn’t a real polar bear cub! It’s one of those heat-in-the-microwave alternatives to a hot water bottle and we’d got one each for the girls for Christmas. I’d taken them to Crested Butte knowing that it would be very cold but putting it in the microwave and seeing it’s sweet face looking up at me as I shut the door and turned the microwave on and watched it turn slowly round and round just seemed plain wrong somehow…
