This will be the third year that Carney and Smith have been playing together. They played a little as sophomores and every minute last year. Everything operates from those two guys and I?m very confident with them.

Good question. There are no standouts, unfortunately. It will be extremely tough going.

But our girls will need to swim better than they did at the nationals when they were playing games with each other in the final.

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?

We had our rally caps on. It worked, so you will probably see more of that.