Serbian and EU officials are at pains to insist that there is no link between Kosovo's future and Serbia's EU aspirations, but in the long run there must be.

I actually found my ergonomic chair at work to be the place I felt most comfortable, and I was able to ignore my aches and pains as long as I kept busy.

Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?