And so it was that Aedd sat at the dining table and calmed himself, though you wouldn’t know it as the cardigan fjords looked like they were still in the middle of a rough Atlantic storm, the waves breaching the football buttons to ravage the pasty pale face of the ginger Welsh, Irish geography teacher. He raised his arms and with both hands out as if he was ready to flap his wings and take off, he pinched finger and thumbs and hummed rhythmically; meditating? And then he looked agitated as he mentioned Burma and seemed to be seeking a map somewhere? Yeah, I think he was meditating, they do that sort of thing in Burma, or is that Birmingham? Yes, it would more than likely be Birmingham, because Bea Flat, his recently decapitated conductor girlfriend, was from that Middle England city. Man

