Naturally, my words are taken as gospel in the skate world and suddenly the Fancy Lad boys were all the rage.
The carpets are black -- jarring within the 1742 mansion's faded pastels -- and in white are names of people from the Drayton inventories: Boat Jack, Dumplin, Poor G, Fatima, lad, girl, boy, African.
"I was two-ed up with this posh lad, uni boy and all that, got me right into it.
He [the victim] was just one of the lads". The boy said he and his friends had all been excluded from Oakwood Academy City and added, with a hint of a smile, that they would rather be sitting their GCSEs than hanging out on the street.
To impress Valerie, a friend of Finbar's (amusingly, she orders a glass of white wine at the bar, thus establishing her sexual and social difference from the lads), the boys each tell a story of the supernatural, evoking portions of Yeats's "A Vision" or the more mystical elements in Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales".
With some reason: crops are failing, there's no welfare state yet (though obviously no clunking lines mentioning this) and life is simply nasty, brutish and, for some of the lads, just boys, queuing to sign up for the coming horrors of the Somme, about to get very short.
"We've gone for a different approach, local lads or boys who've just come in to senior rugby - it's a slow process".
"We've gone for a different approach, local lads or boys who've just come in to senior rugby - it's a slow process". Paver continued: "A lot of our guys are at the beginning of their careers, the experience that they've had today is invaluable for our future.
Instead of Darth Vader or R2D2, the characters on the cards bore names such as "Lad-e-Boy B" from "The Return of the Red Light," "Meta Marauder" from "The Zone Wars" and "NoKid Ney" from "Revenge of the Organ Trade".
"He's a great lad, a young boy, sometimes we forget how young," Mowbray said.
Now trapped with the boy, Lad keeps him warm until a rescue party arrives.
