Archbishop of Canterbury: I am no magician

Saturday, 19th July 2008
By: Michael Brown

London: The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted that he is "no magician" and compared himself to a canary -- the bird miners used to send down a pit ahead of them in case of gas.

Dr Rowan Williams has also revealed that he asks himself "about once a day" whether he has an impossible job.

The primate made the comparison and the admission last week in his first major interview after what he called the "very difficult" General Synod at York.

And in another disclosure, the leader of the divided Church of England and head of the fractured Anglican Communion said he occasionally fantasises about escaping from Lambeth Palace to a smallholding in his native Wales. the rest