There is always a tinge of sadness when any footballer leaves his boyhood club, not least at a time in the Premier League when young English players aren't so much nurtured gently to maturity as yanked squealing into the light and then hurled beneath the wheels of the machine at the first downward wrench of the gears.
She's got a pretty sweet gun and a pretty nice wrench for hitting stuff, and four times as many hit points as my tiny woman in big boots.
But, at the same time, leaving is going to be a wrench.
Waving aside the precedent of 1923, when the second-placed party last formed a government, cartoons would appear of Red Ed in the silver medal position on an Olympic podium trying to wrench the gold from David Cameron's grasp.
The findings suggest that despite the wrench of living some distance from home, most children see their special school as a "home away from home", providing them with the community, safety and structure that previous schools often failed to offer.
By contrast, JFK's defenders insist he was, in fact, a sceptic about the use of ground troops in Vietnam, distrusted gung-ho voices in the military, and would have found a way to wrench America out of that quagmire.
It's a wrench for the Saints and as hackneyed as the sentiment might have become, it's true to say that Hayes is a universally-admired figure in the game on account of his courage, grace and dependability.
Perhaps we see ghosts because they help us to adjust, a hand reaching out to administer to the sudden, appalling wrench.
Ah yes, Mick, king of the closed-eye speeches was wielding a giant, inflatable emotional wrench.
After 12 years riding a bike in London, I recently came to a shocking conclusion: what scares me the most as a cyclist is not the cars, not the lorries and not even the taxi passengers who unexpectedly wrench their door open in front of you – but other cyclists.
