And, according to one of the guests, David Cameron laid it on thick by praising Desmond to the heavens as "the creator of large businesses and provider of thousands of jobs".
Lumb c Coulter-Nile b Hazlewood 18 (England 24-1) Lumb hits the ball high down the ground, but not far enough, and Coulter-Nile sets himself and watches the ball fall from the heavens into his hands.
Thank heavens the Peak District has never been "fashionable" in the pejorative sense of that word - in the way that the Cotswolds are.
Jolene and Kenton – thank heavens for some propriety round here – are actually getting married.
"It wasn't that they put it on me as an individual – that I'm uniquely qualified, an angel descending from the heavens – as that they put it on someone, somewhere," he said.
And for heavens sake, never drop it on coral!
Brown was officially farewelled by the adoring Gabba faithful with a lap of honour at half-time just as the heavens opened.
If the heavens open As the lush greenery of the Gower suggests, there's plenty of rainfall here, although the area fares better than most in Wales during the summer months.
There was no "moment", he says, no blinding flash nor stentorian voice from the heavens.
Writing in his journal about the strange celestial events of 13 November 1833, Prophet Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, described how he was awakened at 4am by a fellow clergyman "calling me to arise and behold the signs in the heavens".
For Petersen, meteorites are both solid scientific evidence and wondrous objects that have fallen from the heavens, carrying all sorts of resonances – from the scientific to the superstitious, the earthly to the supernatural.
