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Chapter Two: TensionMature
2. Tension
The following morning, Juliet rolled over reluctantly in her bed. Remaining traces of the fire of last night filled her nostrils, and she finally sat up, groggy and disoriented as always. She glanced around her bedroom, reaching for her glasses on her bedside table. She put them on and threw the covers aside.
Juliet stood up and then stopped. Hadn't she left all of her sketches from last night scattered across her desk and floor? A swift sense of déjà vu rushed through her and she wrenched the door open, running quickly down the stairs.
"Mom?" Juliet called.
"I'm in the kitchen," she heard Elena reply.
She reached the kitchen and slid slightly on the tiled floor before she stopped.
"What is it? What's wrong?"
Juliet looked at her mother, confused. "Were you in my room last night?"
"Of course not, sweetheart. How come?"
"I… never mind. Maybe I put them away."
"Are you all right?"
Juliet shook her head absently and made her way upstairs. She could have sworn that she'd left her bedroom in a horrible state last night, having been so frustrated at bother her mother and herself. Sighing, she closed her bedroom door behind her and got ready for the day.
After she dressed, she searched every where she could think where she would have stashed the drawings, but to no avail. No matter where she looked, it turned up empty. Juliet grabbed her bag and went back downstairs.
Elena looked up at her, concerned.
Juliet held up a hand. "I'm mentally rifling through my bedroom, don't interrupt."
"All right," she replied, laughing quietly.
Juliet set her things down, and scrounged up some breakfast, while Elena sat at the table, consistently checking her watch every few seconds.
"Expecting someone?" Juliet asked as she sat down to a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
Elena shook her head absent-mindedly. "More like I'm trying not to expect someone, but she always show up around every fourth year or so."
"Oh, sorry," she said suddenly, a blush rising in her face. "I was just mumbling to myself. Ignore me." She got up from the table and rinsed out her coffee mug. "So, what are you going to do about Mr. Nielson?"
Juliet sighed. "Since you won't let me take your books, I guess I'm just going to have to tell him it was a lie, even if it so obviously isn't. If only I could find those sketches…"
Elena shifted anxiously and said, "I'm sorry about that, Juls, but it was an invasion of privacy for you to go through those things anyway."
"You won't even let me take one in?"
"I'm sorry, love."
"Yeah, okay," Juliet said, sighing again. She put her empty bowl on the counter and grabbed her bag. "I'll see you when I get home."
"I love you, you know," Elena said when Juliet was half-way out the door. Juliet lifted her hand to acknowledge she heard her, but said nothing.
Juliet groaned when she got to school. Nigel was leaning against his car, which was parked beside Juliet's usual spot in the parking lot. She toyed with the idea of running him over for a moment and, thinking better of it, pulled into the space beside him. She wondered if it was too late to pretend she didn't see him. Considering if she hadn't, she probably would have run him over accidentally rather than intentionally, Juliet decided against it and reluctantly got out of the car.
"Juliet," he breathed.
She rolled her eyes. "Yes, Nigel, that is my name. Brilliant of you, that one is." She walked around her car and opened the passenger door, pulling her bag off the seat.
"Did you get any proof for Mr. Nielson?"
Juliet looked up at him as she swung her bag over her shoulder and shut the door to her car. "No. My mom wouldn't let me take any of her books to him."
"I figured as much," he mumbled.
"I said, here," Nigel said, pulling out a thin, leather bound book from under his jacket. Juliet took the book from him, running her fingers over the gold-embossed lettering on the front.
"Where did you get this," she asked him, not taking her eyes off of it.
"That's not something I'm at liberty to discuss."
She flipped through it anxiously. "Yes… yes, this is exactly what I need to prove to Mr. Nielson that I wasn't lying. Thank you so much."
He smiled ruefully. "You're welcome, I suppose. Just see to it that I get that back right after school today."
"Of course," Juliet replied, distracted.
"Yeah," Nigel said awkwardly after a moment. He shoved his hands deep in his pockets.
She finally looked at him. "Why did you bring me this?"
"I didn't want you to fail," he answered slowly.
"I don't think that's exactly true."
"It doesn't matter what you think. Just take it to him, all right?"
"Fine, but it doesn't mean I'm not curious."
Nigel looked at her seriously. "You know how you won't tell me anything about what happens to you on a day to day basis?"
"Well, I'm allowed my secrets, too."
"But that isn't fair," Juliet protested. She opened her mouth to continue, but Nigel held up a hand.
"It's perfectly fair, and if you want to stand here in the rain and contemplate the unfairness of life, that's fine, but I'd rather not be late to Calculus." Nigel pulled the hood of his windbreaker over his head roughly and trudged inside, leaving Juliet staring after him.
The day passed in a melancholic blur. Though they knew little about each other, Juliet realized she had begun to depend on Nigel to show himself between classes and at other inconvenient times, a consistent buzz in the background that filled her days with at least some kind of human interaction. Today, however, Nigel kept himself scarce.
At lunch, Juliet attempted to settle herself at the lunch table at which Nigel always sat in order to speak to him. He spotted her sitting awkwardly amongst her friends, dumped his newly purchased lunch in the trashcan, and headed for the library. When she tried to follow, he ignored her so thoroughly that he almost had her convinced that she really wasn't there – perhaps this was some horrible dream and she would wake up, all of her sketches would be there, and the day would be put right. But before she knew it, it was time for her Geography class, and Nigel hadn't so much as nodded at her since their tense conversation that morning.
Juliet entered Geography feeling morose. Though slightly distracted, she did not forget about the leather-bound book that was still tucked away in her jacket.
"Mr. Nielson, I have my proof," she told him the instant her professor stepped through the door.
Mr. Nielson looked utterly shocked for a moment, and then a smug smile spread across his face. "And what wild excuse for proof have you managed to scrounge up, Juliet?"
"No wild excuses, just a book," said Juliet proudly as she pulled it from her coat. She set it on the table in front of him. He stared down at it skeptically, trying to decide as to whether or not this small, moldy book could be legit. He flipped through the pages, pausing every now and again to stop and read.
"I don't believe it," he muttered under his breath.
"I told you it was amazing."
Mr. Nielson shook his head, pulling his glasses off and setting them down delicately on the desk. "That's not what I was referring to, Miss Montgomery. What I cannot believe is that you would take so much of your time last night, when you could have been doing something much more beneficial such as homework, to create such a thing as this. Did you honestly believe you could fool me, Juliet?"
"But, sir, it –"
"I don't want to hear your excuses, Juliet," he cut her off sternly. "I want you to take this stupid little book and find your seat, and I don't want to hear another word of this or I'll report you."
"It's not a lie!" Juliet slammed her fist down on Mr. Nielson's desk, rattling the contents of his pencil cup.
He narrowed his eyes. "I suggest you follow instructions, Miss Montgomery, and control that temper of yours."
The rest of her Geography lesson, Juliet sat fuming, not paying attention, as usual, to a word he said. She was angry. She was going to get a zero and there wasn't a thing she could do about it – not that school necessarily mattered to her. It was the principle of the thing that bothered her. She had brought him what he had asked for and he heartily denied the existence of such a wondrous city, of such an amazing world.
The bell rang. Juliet stood up and swung her bag over her shoulder. She crossed the school quickly in order to catch Nigel before he left. She feared she'd missed him when she was almost to the parking lot and had seen no sign of him, but when she turned down the side hall, she saw him leaning against the wall by the door, hands deep in his pockets, eyes fixed on his shoes.
Juliet walked up to him slowly, no longer sure why she felt it was important she talk to him about what was going on earlier that day. She compensated for the awkward gap in conversation by pulling his book from her coat.
"Here," she murmured, pressing the soft leather into his hand. "He didn't give me the grade. Thanks for everything. I'll see you later." She was unsure of what else to say, but as she reached out to open the door, he grabbed the handle and held it shut.
"That's it, then?"
"What do you mean?"
He kept his eyes downward, but he appeared concerned. "You're giving up. You're not going to try anymore to prove your heritage, to prove what you are, who you are."
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
Nigel finally looked up at Juliet's face, taking in the way her eyebrows pulled together, the slight curve of her full lips. He shook his head to clear his thoughts. "I know that, and I wish I could figure out why."
She tilted her head in confusion.
"I'm desperately trying to understand how you could know about Eldias – how your mother could posses the kind of information in your paper – and still be… human."
"What, you think I'm not human?"
He met her gaze. "No one with that kind of information could possibly be."
A thousand things began racing through Juliet's mind at once – was he insulting her, by telling her she was inhuman? She didn't even know anything about him. He was the one who had ignored her all day in the first place. To treat her like that and then to tell her that she or her mother couldn't possibly be human? Juliet clenched her fists.
"There's nothing wrong with me."
"I didn't say there was."
"I can't believe you," she told him through gritted teeth. "You attempt to help me this morning, treat me like a leper through the school day, and now you're telling me that because I know about Eldias I can't possibly be human? What is wrong with you?"
"There is nothing wrong with me," Nigel replied stiffly, straightening up and staring down at her.
"Something must be. It's bad enough that you follow me around every day after school, trying to figure me out. Well, you haven't figured me out. I'm not some kind of freak show just because my mom has some old books about this country that, according to my geography teacher, doesn't exist."
"If my being around bothers you that badly, then I suppose I'll leave you to your own devices."
"I didn't say that…"
Juliet clenched her fists tighter, refusing to believe she was telling him this. "It really bothered me today that you weren't around. I didn't expect it. You're always right there."
"I'm not your keeper."
"I know that."
"Well, then, what did you expect? I'm not going to attempt to make conversation with you if you so obviously don't want me around."
"I don't want a keeper, Nigel. I want…"
"What?" he asked sharply.
"I want someone to explain to me what the hell is going on."
"Then ask your mother."
"That's not what I mean!" she shouted, slamming her palm against the wall. She was breathing heavily, trying to control the anger that was coursing through her veins. She didn't understand anything that was going on anymore.
Nigel continued to stare down at her, though his eyes softened. "Then what do you mean, Juliet?"
"It doesn't matter."
"Yes, it does."
She shook her head slowly. "Just let me go home, Nigel," she pleaded with him, flexing her fingers to keep herself from clenching her fists. "I just want to go home." He let go of the door. He dropped his eyes to the floor as Juliet bolted outside to her car, only seeing the ends of her jet black hair as she flashed by.
Juliet slammed her car door and bent over the steering wheel, breathing heavily. After a moment she sat up, attempting to clear her head. She felt bad for the way she had reacted and cursed herself for her ill temper, but she couldn't bring herself to get out of the car and apologize.
Staring at the school, she saw Nigel finally come outside to go home. He looked violently angry. Juliet's temper flared again, and she turned her car on, peeling out of the parking lot and keeping up a stream of profanities that she wished she could scream in his face.
She was home ten minutes later, yearning for the comfort of her bedroom. Juliet got out of her car, grabbed her bag, and headed inside through the back door. Her mother wasn't in the kitchen, but she heard her talking to somebody in the living room. She stepped into the room.
Juliet's bag hit the floor before she'd even registered that she'd dropped it. Elena whirled in her seat, staring at Juliet open-mouthed.
"Juliet, honey, what are you dong home?"
"School let out half an hour ago. I'm actually late," Juliet replied mechanically, not taking her eyes off of the stranger. Elena laughed nervously then looked back over at her guest.
The woman who was sitting on the couch across from Elena's chair was the strangest looking person Juliet had ever seen. She had waist length hair that was silver with a bluish hue, though the side-swept bangs that hung over her eyes were a bright gold. Her short dress, thick boots, and elbow length gloves were of the same two colors. She had snowy white skin, and eyes that were two different colors – the left, an ice blue, and the right was gold. There was also a gold "x" just under her right eye.
"It's March," Juliet said slowly. "Isn't it a little late for a costume party?" She bent down to pick her school bag off of the floor.
Elena grabbed at the excuse. "Yes, but there's a convention in town and she's going to be staying with us for a little while."
"Aren't you going to introduce me," asked the young woman, her airy voice carrying a mocking tone.
Elena nodded. "Juliet, this is an old friend of mine from… from college. Her name is Hayle."
"Like a bad storm, hail?"
"No, like my mother likes to make convoluted names with whatever letters pop into her head. At least the elves didn't have their say; they would have named me –"
"Hayle will be in and out of the house, but she will be here for dinner. Please take your things upstairs and then come back down to help me cook."
"Fine," Juliet sighed. She had stopped asking questions about the kinds of people who came to visit her mother – there was one woman with bright blue hair who had insisted that she was a queen and ordered Juliet around for three days. She made her way upstairs slowly lost in thought. When she first set eyes on Hayle, she had a fleeting sense of memory, a shower of gray and gold feathers, and an argument that had broken her mother's favorite vase in the living room. But there never had been vase in that corner, had there?
Juliet set her bag on her bed and changed into a pair of more comfortable jeans. She went back into the hall and turned to the stairs, about to head back down, but then stopped as loud voices reached her ears.
"You couldn't have just the slightest bit of respect for my decisions as a mother?" Elena asked angrily. Juliet sneaked down a few stairs silently, trying to hear Hayle's muted reply. She sat down at the end of the wall, peering around the first post of the banister at the tense scene taking place in the living room.
Elena and Hayle were standing, facing each other. Both of them were rigid, clenching their fists, their jaws tight.
"She's getting on in years, Elena. You can't keep masking her memories, forcing her to repeat high school every few years. The Council is getting suspicious. I know you're trying to protect her from everything you fled from, but there are things happening in Eldias that I don't understand, and I'm fairly certain Julietrielle is the key."
Elena said nothing, so Hayle continued.
"The Council put me on as her guard, Elena. I've lied to them repeatedly for you, told them that Juliet's aware of everything and is choosing to stay on Earth to please you. But they're getting anxious, Len. They know that eventually ever Ayephim on Earth is taken by the wanderlust to get back to Eldias, but only if they know. It's been three-hundred years, and she hasn't once come home."
"I have to protect her. Gabriel is general of the Fallen, the world is falling to pieces – last I heard Elkon'Legh had truly lost his power and I worry that what the Council did to him has corrupted him even further than we all think. I don't want her involved with that world."
"Eventually she will put her foot down."
"Not if she doesn't know," Elena said, shaking her head. "I'm planning on doing another memory wipe soon and start her as a freshman in college. Maybe I'll send her somewhere warm this time, possibly California."
"It's the middle of the school year. If you pull her out, the principle or the school board or whoever is going to wonder why one of their prime students suddenly stops coming to school in her senior year. Her friends are likely to get suspicious, too."
Elena shook her head again. "Juliet doesn't have any friends."
"You may believe that, but I'm fairly certain there are at least one or two of her peers who will notice if she goes missing."
"There's nothing else I can do, Hayle."
Hayle suddenly threw the glass she was holding. It shattered against the wall. "You can let her come home, you irrational woman! They need her! Do you want Eldias to get destroyed? At the rate it's going, it will be, by the Council if Gabriel doesn't get there first. I can't let that happen."
"As her mother, I can't allow you to do this."
"I have no other choice, Elena. Maybe not today, maybe not four years from now, but I will come back for her, and she will know."
Hayle snapped her fingers and the shattered glass disappeared before crossing the room, wrenching the front door open, and slamming it shut behind her.


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I was slightly upset that Falcon disappeared to talk to Ryan as soon as we got back to the house. I thought he might have wanted to spend a bit more time with me. Instead I collapsed on the sofa next to Ebony who was in her room watching TV.
'Where did Sparkle go?'
'She needed some air too, you should have been here, Ryan looked so miffed that she didn't ask him to go with her.' Ebony's relationship with Ryan made me smile, such a brother/sister duo. 'But I'd rather you didn't go off again, I felt like such a third wheel, it was disgusting the way they kept looking at each other.' She shuddered.
'It's OK next time I decide to disappear you can come with me.' I laugh and slowly Ebony joins in.
We slowly flick through the channels laughing at stupid adverts. I'm glad we get on, it would've been horrible to have to spend eternity with two people you hated.
'How's Falcon?'
'He's good.'
'So you're still obsessing over him.'
'I'm not obsessing, that is unfair.'
'OK then sorry, but you do know every other woman is going to fall in love with him too, I don't think he would be able to stay with just one woman.'
'Why do you say that?'
'He's a guy. More than that he's a guy who has women throwing themselves at his feet, temptation is right there.' I liked Ebony's honesty but it still hurt.
Sparkle came flying in.
'Ryan and Falcon want to speak with us. I've found my powers!' She made a ball of flame appear in her hand.
'Wow. That's amazing Sparkle. Can I do that?' I focus hard trying to picture flames in my hand. A tiny flame appears, no where near as impressive as Sparkle's but I was still happy with myself.
'Well done Rai.' Sparkle turns to lead us to the living room. 'Oh and I'm just Spark, it's so much easier.'


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You know you're getting old when you simply can't cope with the New Year sales any more. The bustle, the aggression, the din. And that's just fighting for the bathroom in the morning. When you get to the shops, it's like a cut-price version of the apocalypse. Clothes stuffed together on bulging rails, some of them trailing on the floor, covered with dirt, like some Turner Prize-nominated Tracey Emin production ('All the clothes I never washed'). Cosmetics jumbled together in baskets, their cellophane smudged and torn. Shoes piled together by size, all of them needing odour eaters to take away the stink of design failure. The elephant's graveyard of toasters, DVD players and liquidisers, all stranded forlornly on shelves like electronic orphans who never made it into a family home for Christmas. It's all so sad, exhausting and confusing - like the last puppy left in the pet shop window, am I supposed to want to buy this stuff or is my conscience being pricked to rescue it?
It wasn't always so. There used to be something quintessentially British and innocent about the New Year sales. The long queue camping outside somewhere like Harrods sometimes for a couple of nights, sometimes longer. The curiously noble urge to get a few quid off a colour television or a washer-dryer. Greed seemed a long way from these New Year queues. It was all about Thermoses of soup, impromptu sing-songs in the early hours and saving people's places when they needed to pop to the loo. Even though they were sleeping in doorways, nobody had to worry that their head would get kicked in or their purses stolen while they dozed like the homeless do these days.
This, you realise now, was the last brilliant blazing of a half-remembered Blitz spirit. A Dunkirk of woolly scarves, sleeping bags and secret supplies of custard creams. The world has changed since then and the New Year sales have changed with it.
That probably explains why the New Year sales are the only time a shopaholic friend of mine doesn't feel like buying anything. She says it's like suddenly all her favourite shops seem roughed up, 'violated', and she can't bear to see them like that. If she goes in at all she completely ignores the sales rails and concentrates on those small sections featuring the full-price new season rail. Even if she does spot something she likes in the sales it is touch and go whether she will buy it and we're talking about a woman who is one of those Eskimos you can sell ice to. 'It's like once it's in the sales, it's tainted,' she says and that sums it up really. They say you should never buy anything in the sales that you wouldn't buy full-price, but it's much more complicated than that. Once it's on the sale rail, it's like a perfectly nice garment suddenly looks cheap and trashy. That's one of the saddest things about the sales at any time of year - people might love the sales but truly nobody respects anything they buy in them. They are the one night stands of retail.
Saying that, there seems to be a genuine human need for sales. Lots of people seem to really enjoy romping about picking up coats in a size too small in a colour they can't stand. There is a deep animal hunger for the concept of The Bargain even if, when you look closely at all the red slashes on the ticket it's only gone down by about a fiver. For this, you bumped and bustled, and fought and snarled and elbowed people like me out of the way like you were attempting to exit a burning building? For this you lost all vestige of dignity? Shame on you. For make no mistake about it, the worst of human nature is displayed at the sales - they are mob scenes of hate, aggression and rail after rail of size-six satin combat trousers.
However, if we can't fight sales, then we might as well join them, even stretch the concept a little bit further. People get overlooked and rejected, too, why don't we have sales to clear the decks of them? You could have signs reading 'Long-term singletons - big slashes in expectation' or offer cut-price 'display models' who have been members of dating agencies for far too long and are looking a bit scuffed around the edges. Of course, it would all be very embarrassing standing there under an 'Everyone Must Go' sign trying your hardest to look desirable but surely no worse than the average drinks party.
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The advice to Fabio Capello could hardly have been more seductive. It said the smart move was to hand David Beckham his 100th international cap next week, not as the condoning of imposing some incorrigibly woolly sentiment on the proper criteria for picking an international football team but the conferring of a right of achievement. A no-brainer, no?
It certainly passed the pragmatism test. Having deferred to the majority view, Capello could then get on with the rather more serious question of making a competitive England team, something that, for one reason or another, has been postponed for the best part of 40 years.
Even those most inclined to welcome the appointment of Capello as a portent of more rigorous demands on the celebrity culture of the team had to be impressed with the practical value of such an argument. Indeed, the coronation of Beckham at Wembley in the friendly match against Switzerland had become a fait accompli – until, that is, the surfacing at the weekend of the word being passed around those football circles in Italy and Spain most familiar with the thoughts and character of Capello.
The new message is that Il Capo is finding it increasingly hard to stomach the idea of playing, in a team that is supposed to be making a first statement about England's new order, someone who hasn't kicked a ball competitively for more than two months.
Of course such an idea is a nonsense for anyone who believes that one of the most hopeless aspects of the Sven Goran Eriksson regime was his almost total neglect of the idea that friendly matches were the irreplaceable building blocks of team development.
But then, if Capello is half the politician he is winning football coach, you didn't have to be Machiavelli to point out the public relations value of a gesture towards Beckham. How profoundly would the spotlight – and the pressure – switch from the £6m-a-year coach to the man experiencing potentially his last hurrah in an England shirt. Talk about a built-in alibi for anything less than an England soaring out of the ashes of that defeat by Croatia. You could almost scrawl it now. "It was Beckham's night, not mine, capice? It was unfinished business. Now I can begin my work."
Capello's predecessor, Steve McClaren, went about it quite differently, of course. He dropped Beckham and it was made to seem not a logical consequence of the teary meltdown in the World Cup in Germany – when, if you remember, Beckham handed in the captaincy without bidding and told the world he sobbed relentlessly in the taxi taking him to the carefully managed press conference – but an act of defiantly iron will. Unfortunately, but not unpredictably, Beckham's shadow grew to a point where not even his decision to play minor league football in America could check the rate of McClaren's back-tracking.
For Capello the requirement is simply to give Beckham one more cap in a match that is only as significant as anyone, and most relevantly, Capello, wants to make it.
Another word from Capello's chattering circle is that the coach has been impressed by such likely lads as David Bentley and Aaron Lennon, who so brilliantly spoon-fed Robbie Keane his goal against Manchester United at the weekend, and that delaying their first opportunity to play under his direction while deferring to the inactive Beckham, who will be 35 come the World Cup in South Africa, would be pushing public relations to an unacceptable level.
The most regular argument on behalf of Beckham is that he deserves his 100th cap for England in a way that would make its denial a result of some kind of outrageous meanness of spirit. A counterview, which in all honesty is somewhat harboured in this quarter, is that 99 caps provides a distinction of its own in that it is a mark surpassed by only four other players – Peter Shilton, Bobby Moore, Sir Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright – and that perhaps in terms of achievement and consistent performance a certain natural division might occur here.
A discussion point, at the very least, is that Gary Lineker, second only to Charlton in scoring for England, had to settle for a mere 80 caps – and the ignominy of being hauled off the field one short of Charlton's goals record. He has managed to get through a substantial part of the rest of his life without much hint of moping. Sir Tom Finney received 76 caps, Jimmy Greaves, arguably the best striker ever produced by the nation, collected a mere 57.
The point that Capello may just be in the process of making is that when you play for your country it is not because of accumulated prestige or any other reason other than that at the relevant time you are best equipped to receive the honour. When Beckham is fit and playing again, who knows, he might convince Capello that performing in America is not an impossible handicap in his pursuit of a 100th cap. However, until that time some at least will be reassured by evidence that Capello is at least debating the difference between the smart move and the right one.
Ashton can expand horizons beyond past glories by preferring Cipriani
Having survived the acrid aftermath of the World Cup, England's rugby union coach Brian Ashton is now said to be facing his most serious test of courage. Does he have the nerve to invest in the superb potential of Danny Cipriani at the expense of national hero Jonny Wilkinson when England meet Wales at Twickenham next Saturday?
Yes, if he is true to his best intincts – and the brilliant defence of his role made by Jeremy Guscott a few months ago. Guscott's intervention may not have been crucial in Ashton's survival after the attacks made on his performance in France by such heavyweights as Lawrence Dallaglio and Mike Catt, but for the health of England's future it would be encouraging to think so. The plea was striking in its depth and its passion. Guscott declared that if England discarded Ashton they would be turning their back on their best chance of pushing back the horizons of their rugby.
Immense resolution and power, and Wilkinson's infallible kicking, had brought the World Cup triumph of 2003. Four years later an absolute refusal to be chased out of the tournament brought astonishing progress to another final.
But then England surely had to move on. They had to develop new lines of attack, new vision, a new feel for how the game should be played. Ashton was the man to do this, claimed Guscott. Now perhaps, in a single act of selection, Ashton can make good on such promise. Of course Wilkinson can never be lightly discarded. But there are times in the course of a career when a moment has to be seized. Just as Wilkinson demanded from Clive Woodward the recognition of extraordinary talent, Cipriani is surely making such a call on Ashton.
Such a player offers more than high individual performance. He points to new directions. He is a talent around whom a coach can make an abiding statement. Cipriani is the future that Jeremy Guscott was talking about – and which Brian Ashton can now enact.
None the wiser at St James' Park
There was always going be a time when excessive attention to the meanderings of Newcastle United was liable to be hard on the brain lining. Perhaps it has arrived with reports that Kevin Keegan has picked out a key role for Dennis Wise.
Wise's achievements at Leeds United have been considerable but to say they make natural components in the dreamy aspirations of Keegan pushes us beyond even what passes for logic at St James' Park. Whatever you think about King Kev's managerial track record, or Newcastle's hold on reality, both he and the club's followers have stood, however impractically, for certain football values.
They have talked, eternally, of a beautiful game. Maybe Wise is seen as the antidote to such romanticism – but have Keegan and Newcastle really studied the directions on the packet? Maybe not. Perhaps they just want someone who can talk the same language as Joey Barton. What next? The recall of Lee Bowyer?
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Newcomers love the "village" high street and the easy Tube journey to the West End (only two stops to Bond Street) but it is still surrounded by parks and the beautiful open spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill. The area is popular with families as well as professionals and students. Famous local landmarks include the Abbey Road Studios and Lord's Cricket Ground, so the area is constantly buzzing.
James Green, a partner at Alexander Green Associates has worked in the area for nine years, and says: "it is the first true residential area when you move out of the centre of London. It is certainly a wealthy environment but not intimidating or pretentious. It is a transient area and you will find people from all over the world living here and everyone is welcoming. It has a village feel but is always bustling, particularly in the summer when people sit outside on the high street for a drink."
What types of properties are typical to the area?
Properties in St John's Wood fall into three categories: houses, apartments in purpose built/portered blocks and flats in period conversions. The properties nearest to the high street are mainly beautiful, white-stucco terraced houses and command high prices.
The homes on Avenue Road have to be seen to be believed - most of them are fairly substantial mansions rather than houses, with average rental fees reaching up to £15,000 a week for a home with six or more bedrooms.
There are also some fantastic new-build homes between St John's Wood and Maida Vale, featuring modern apartments in characteristic buildings, including old churches. Regent's Park is very close and the houses lining the park are incredibly sought after.
What different types of homebuyers are attracted to this area?
Buyers include families looking for large homes, people downsizing from areas like the West End and Marylebone and professionals from abroad who have been transferred to London offices.
Many investors buy for long-term appreciation but allow their children to use the properties while they study here. The market is very strong at the moment with a large demand from overseas tenants, especially from France and America due to the French School opening in Kentish Town and the American School in Loudoun Road.
Corporate and international tenants go for the bigger, portered blocks rather than conversions as this suits their lifestyles. It is normally the families or local residents that ask for period conversions which are a little further away from the Underground Station but offer a great deal of charm.
What types of renters are attracted to the area – and why?
Our tenants fall in three main categories:
Young professionals: the Jubilee line is a huge draw for young professionals working in Mayfair or Canary Wharf, as is being close to the West End for bars, restaurants and shopping.
Families: there are some very good schools and nurseries in the area including Abercorn School and Arnold House School. Families can rent a nice size property for a lot less than surrounding areas such as Notting Hill or Regent's Park. It is renowned for being a very safe area.
Corporate market: although this did really slow down in 2008/09, it is back in a big way. A lot of companies in the Middle East send over employees to set up or join existing London offices. Families are also being sent over on work transfers or to strengthen London teams from the legal, finance and trading sectors. Many are here for three years for work projects, and some end up buying.
Has there been any particular trends emerging recently in the rental market in NW8?
This time of year it's all about the students. Many are from the Middle and Far East and study at the London Business School or the private universities around Regent's Park. For the next six to eight weeks, 80 per cent of our business will be from wealthy international students looking for one- or two-bedroom flats close to Marylebone and Regent's Park.
What are the 'hottest' lettings properties in the area?
We are currently seeing a massive demand for quality family houses with three- to four-bedrooms in east St John's Wood, around the £1,800-£2,750 a week mark. Roads such as Acacia Road, Marlborough Place, St John's Wood Terrace and Loudoun Road are in very high demand.
Student flats with one- or two-bedroom properties that are not at the top end of the market in terms of price, but within walking distance to the Tube are also popular. Lots of students like to live on Abbey Road as it's a tourist landmark they know. The network of roads around Townsend Road and Chalbert Street are sought after as they are conveniently positioned between the park, the high street and the station.
Where are the 'hidden gems'?
St John's Wood Terrace is a great road as it's just off the high street and very close to the Tube. But because the properties are terrace houses, they tend to be smaller four-bedroom homes – around 2,000 sq ft – rather than the 3,000-4,000 sq ft properties commonly found in surrounding roads. This means they can rent for between £2,250-£2,500 a week rather than £3,500-plus.
What are the best investment opportunities in the area?
One-bedroom properties close to the Tube and the high street are always in huge demand if finished to a good standard. We never have enough one-bedroom flats. Langford Court on Langford Place is a good example of this as it is a well-run, portered block just minutes from the Tube and the high street and we constantly receive enquiries about this block.
How is local parking?
Parking is fairly easy in St John's Wood as there is a good mix of resident permit bays and pay and display. The entire high street is pay and display and most of the side roads are too, so people can easily park when they come in to the area for shopping. The amount of parking available sets St John's Wood apart from other local high streets and people tend to visit from further afield for this benefit.
What are service charges in the area like?
They are fairly high in some of the portered blocks and the newer blocks in particular have been known to have very high service charges, some in excess of £15,000 a year.
What are your favourite properties to show people?
I love showing houses to families from overseas who do not know London yet. I enjoy being able to talk about St John's Wood and all the interesting a positive points of the area.
If money were no object, where would you buy in the area?
Embassy Court is the newest development here on Finchley Road. People seem to either love it or hate it, but I think it is unbelievable. The standard of this scheme has certainly raised the bar in the area. We let a two-bedroom apartment there in March for £1,200 a week. Otherwise, I love the white, stucco-fronted homes in Abbey Gardens or Marlborough Place with off-street parking and gardens.
James Green is a partner at Alexander Green Associates in St John's Wood
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Zimby Mojo is a co-opportunistic game for 2-8 players that also supports solo play. Each player is the all-powerful shaman of a tribe of ferocious, conniving, vicious little cannibals called zimbies, and each player has a single goal: to become the new Cannibal King. To achieve their goal, each player will have to use their zimbies to infiltrate the current King's compound, kill him, take his Crown, and carry it safely to their tribal board before a rival zimby tribe can do so first.
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Keep one eye on the Crown. Keep the other on your back.
Zimbies are vicious, conniving little cannibals. They are small, stubborn, anti-heroes in a game of control of a land of nasty little creatures. They are not human: each zimby tribe has followed its own cultural and evolutionary path -- there are humanoid zimbies, avian zimbies, aquatic zimbies, simian zimbies, ursine zimbies, arachnid zimbies, the list goes on! That's why there's a bunch of reptilian-eyed, orange-skinned, clawed, stick-haired creatures on the box! The name "zimby" itself derives from a play on words on the word "zombie" and the designer's love of the cartoon character Invader Zim, who he feels exquisitely exemplifies zimby behavior and fanaticism.
Each player plays the shaman of a different zimby tribe. Zimbies are nasty, unruly, conniving little cannibals that follow their shaman with fanatical loyalty. Each player's goal is to bring about the death of the Cannibal King, steal his fallen Crown, and get the Crown to his tribal board so he can become the new Cannibal King. To do this, the players will have to:
1. Get some zimbies onto the main game board (you can't get the Crown without a zimby to grab it and carry it home),
2. Cooperate with at least one other tribe to activate a sigil (you can't kill the King unless you can get to him),
3. Kill the Cannibal King (that's the only way he will give up his Crown),
4. Get the Crown and deliver it to your tribal board (you win the game by becoming the new Cannibal King).
Part 1 of the game is completely cooperative. Part 2 of the game is completely competitive.
There are four creature types in the game: zimbies, obnoxious little cannibals that do a shaman's bidding with ruthless (sometimes inept) fanaticism; zombies, undead meat-puppets; thugs, the Cannibal King's dim-witted, fervently devoted brutes; the Cannibal King, the sadistic yet cowardly overlord of the zimby tribes. Shaman are players and don't count as creatures.
Mojo is "a power that may seem magical and allows someone to be very effective, successful, etc." (Mirriam Webster). It is the inexplicable, mystical energy than allows shamans to both impel their zimbies into action and release the powerful magical spells bound in the scrolls they raid from the Scroll Library! But be warned, mojo is drawn from shamans and zimbies! The more zimbies a shaman sends forth to kill the Cannibal King and steal his Crown, the less mojo that shaman has available! Every turn, each player (shaman) generates a small amount of mojo and may also draw forth mojo from zimbies on their tribal board, thereby depleting them of energy for the remainder of the turn and rendering them useless. A shaman may also cannibalize (yes, eat!) their own zimbies for more mojo... Of course, eaten zimbies are dead and gone...
Multiple zimbies can stack to form columns which count as single, giant creatures. The more zimbies in the stack, the stronger they are but the slower they move. And the shaman whose turn it is fully controls the column...
Shamans may use mojo to empower scrolls to cast one-off rituals, long-lasting incantations, and blindingly fast witcheries. These cast magical effects -- beneficial and detrimental -- on the shaman themselves. Shamans also use mojo to move their zimbies on the main board -- so, the more scrolls a shaman uses the less mojo they have available for movement. Combat is a simple 1d6 "roll-off" with the combatant making the higher die roll dealing a number of wounds damage equal to the difference in the die rolls to the combatant making the lower die roll.
Many of a player's actions are limited to the player's turn, such as spawning new zimbies, turning zimbies into zombies, movement and combat. Players may extract and use mojo at any time on any player's turn. So, scroll use is always an option!
At the end of the round, after all the players have gone, the player with the most undepleted zimbies on his tribal board becomes the first mover on the next round. That player goes first and play proceeds clockwise from them.
There is also a solo mode, which is not only a fully realized game but also very useful to hone the strategies that you will use in your multiplayer games. But be warned: solo play is limited to 12 turns and your score gets lower the more turns you take. It's not too hard to win, but it's tough to get a high score!
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very nice quilt
nice colours
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very nice quilt
nice colours
What a lovely gift. Something to remember everyone by.
what a wonderful remembrance for them to cherish
very nice
What a heartfelt gift! Beautiful quilt.
Wonderful, great job and thank you for sharing.
Have a Blessed day
Beautiful quilt and they will surely remember all of you with great affection.
Stunning memory quilt! Beautiful!!!!
beautiful love the color too!!!!