#he has a lot of notebooks and like wood things he demolishes if it gets too much in situations he cant get it out otherwise

[1-2-butter-my-shoe]

Silas Conway, Safe Or Sorry, part 5

The safe stayed in London, while he took the train. He never took holiday leave, so his bosses didn't mind. He didn't know what he would find, but he had to get to Stonehenge.

It felt weird, heading towards Exeter on the first train. He was almost tempted to just not get off at his stop, to go back to where he grew up. He missed Devon.

Salisbury arrived all too soon. He got off, along with one or two other passengers. With the Reset, this station had become a ghost station. A major attraction was gone, and he wasn't sure the place would ever recover.

He hailed three taxis before a driver would take him where he wanted to go, and even then he charged double the going rate. The others had looked nervous before suddenly realising that they had bookings. He understood their nervousness. Visiting a historical site was a risky business.

Stonehenge hadn't been demolished in the same way as many sites. Sure, the stones had been pulled down, some broken to use in buildings. The majority, though, had simply vanished. It had been all over the newspapers - tons of rock just disappearing in the dead of night, despite the police guard on the monument. Silas smiled to himself as the taxi drove on. That one had taken a lot of organising.

When they reached where the stones had stood, the driver was terse.

"Payment, then go. If anyone asks, I've never seen you 'efore."

Silas handed over the money and got out. The taxi drove off like a criminal fleeing the scene of a crime. Which, Silas thought to himself, he technically was.

No one came here anymore, so Silas was free to wander at his leisure. Of the original stones, only about eight remained. Most were of the older variety, placed before the ones he was looking for. The stone emerged from his pocket again. An igneous rock, normally found in Wales, commonly known as a bluestone.

He took his time, checking each stone carefully, bluestone or not. There were two of the type he was after, but neither yielded any results. Perhaps he'd been wrong. Maybe it wasn't Stonehenge after all.

On an impulse he strolled down the opposite side of the mound to where he'd approached. A ditch encircled the monument and lying in the bottom was a bluestone. Smaller than the others, and damaged from where it had tumbled, it otherwise looked like what it was - a slab of igneous rock. He questioned again what would compel someone to haul it the 250 kilometres from Wales. That was some devotion.

Kneeling down, he felt under the edge of the stone, hoping fervently he hadn't wasted his time. Nothing. He tried the other side. Nothing... Wait, there was something. For a moment his fingers had brushed wood. He reached his whole arm beneath the slab. Hand closed around a small wooden box.

Pulling it out, he found it was a crude thing, about the size of a portable chess set. Sitting down on the stone, he opened the latch.

Inside lay a sheet of generic notebook paper and a carved crucifix. He lifted out the paper first. A message was written, by the looks of it, by a typewriter. He read through it:

To the Guardian,

If you have got this far, you are not one of the sheep. The sheep forget, when they should fight. I fought. I have been fighting my whole life. The fight has caught up with me.

I leave behind my life's work, hidden for the moment. I have left clues to its location. Solve them, and it could be yours. Protect it. If I live still, or remember still, then I will wait at the last location.

Good luck.

Silas lifted the other object from the box. It was a carved wooden crucifix, made from an exotic hardwood, splashed with red dye. Engraved into the top was the spiny ring of a crown.

He'd need to work out the clue, but not now. Now he needed to go, before anyone noticed him, or worse, his find. He took the public footpath back to the town.

The train journey back was spent in puzzlement. Who had sent the message, and left the clue? And what were they protecting?

[apsbicepstraining]

Wladimir Klitschko:’ This may sound pretentiou, but I am like Mount Everest’

The 41 -year-olds training camp in the Alps looks like the train for a repugnance movie and he tells Sachin Nakrani he is in the mood to give Anthony Joshua a scare when they meet on 29 April at Wembley

Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance consider this to be the lay for a slow-burning, creepy-crawly horror movie. With its rocky background and somewhat kitsch interior heavy wood panelling, stripy sofas it brought by rememberings of the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kings The Shining. Walk through the lobby, past all staff members garmented in lederhosen, and it feels like simply topics of day until a clock goes off, a bozo springs out and a person falls down the stairs.

But on this spring visit there is no horror to be had. Instead, amid the restaurants sector and prohibits, the spas, saunas and swimming bath, resides a narration of redemption. Or, as Wladimir Klitschko places it, fulfilling an obsession.

The heavyweight is here to prepare for his bout with Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on 29 April. Stanglwirt has been his pre-fight base since 2003 and a residence he describes as a residence away from home. It is easy to see the appeal for all its Heres Johnny! calibers, the complex , now more than 250 years old, is a beautiful situate to invest some time. Pristine, picturesque, heated, friendly and with batch to do and ingest. For Klitschko it is somewhere to get his thought and mas right, which now more than ever is important for a boxing enormous who, as he acknowledges, is about to take on a career-defining challenge.

Klitschko has not fought since his shock defeat to Tyson Fury in Dsseldorf 17 few months ago. It was an outcome that is not simply deprived the Ukrainian of his WBA, IBF and WBO entitles but too of his mantle of near-invincibility. Dr Steelhammer, a fighter who had locked 53 of his 64 wins across a 27 -year career by knockout, was outgunned by a man who dressed as Batman for one of their pre-fight news conference. Fury was a pun, yet after a unanimous points decision on 28 November 2015 he was the one laughing.

Much happens to Fury since that night and one of the consequences has been Klitschko missing out on a rematch that would have rendered him with a chance to prove he is no busted flush after a fourth defeat since growing professional in 1996. Unfinished business, as he employs it. Now, ultimately, arrives the chance for him to go again against a British fighter.

Wladimir Klitschko and his physio Aldo Vetere at the Stanglwirt hotel. Photograph: Johann Groder/ AFP/ Getty Images

Joshua, the IBF champion, poses a different threat to Fury a year younger at 27, stronger and more deadly. Then there is the arrange: a stadium Klitschko has never fought at, in front of a 90,000 sellout gang. He goes there on the back of his longest period of immobility since first lacing up a duo of gauntlets, and having precisely switched 41. Little wonder this most assured of men is full of questions, full of mistrusts, as he spoke at Stanglwirt.

This fight is 50 -5 0, Klitschko suggested. Can the younger guy make it? Has the older person still got it? Interrogate markings are making this event really interesting. Ive never had a pause for a year and a half. Is it bad? Is it good? Will I have rust? I crave the answers myself.

One thing I believe is I dont experience my age. Its not empty words. I am get in best available influence of my life, physically and mentally. I dont look Im remain and not improving, even in a athletic Ive been involved with for so long. Thats what interests and agitates me.

Klitschko certainly looked well as he communicated, flanked by his administrator, Bernd Bnte, and his manager, Johnathon Banks.

The body abides enforcing and defined, his face chiselled and those handwritings continue to look like weapons of mass destruction. Requested to predict how the fight with Joshua will go, Klitschko developed his fists and nodded towards them in turn. Funeral or infirmary? Hospital or funeral? I dont need numerous punches to knock person or persons out.

That was a rare moment of trash-talking bravado from the veteran( alongside the moment he claimed Joshua goes confidence from his muscles and is better suited to bodybuilding ).

Generally Klitschko was respectful of his rival, bear partly out of the fact Joshua goes into their fight on the back of a perfect professional preserve 18 wins from 18 battles, all reached via knockout and partly because of the respect Klitschko developed for the man from Watford, having invited him to be a sparring partner in November 2014, before taking on the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.

He impressed me with his attitude, Klitschko announces. He was in the background and reading. Sometimes you need to be quiet and are watching, and he was discovering everything. He could also box, so I yielded him ascribe and I was there in the arena when he prevailed gold[ at London 2012 ]~ ATAGEND. Every medallist in the super-heavyweight discord at the Olympics has to be considered successful. He has a lot of potential and so far has done good.

Unlike Fury, Joshua is likely to engage with Klitschko from the first bell, looking to flora his feet and unload bombards as frequently as possible. On one hand that provides the challenger with a standing target not to mention a presumably susceptible chin but on the other it makes he will have to engage himself, something Klitschko did merely in the 12 th round of the Fury fight when his uncharacteristic indecision against a moving target “ve been given” him no choice but to go for broke. Ultimately it was too little, too late.

Klitschko holds he has learned from his mistakes and will be fully prepared for the challenge by the time he arrives in London on 26 April. Until then it is a matter of working hard and biding focused, something that was there to see at Stanglwirt.

The scene was a converted tennis tribunal in the bowels of the hotel. In the middle stood a reverberate while at one back were three punchbags hung in ascending ordering and at another a basketball net where, at around 8am, Banks hit hoops with another member of backroom squad as Klitschko went through a series of stretching exercises. Two television screens had been lay out presenting Joshuas previous combats, everything taking place to the voice of Motown classics. It was a tighten start.

Banks and Klitschko eventually underwent some pad work inside the ring. It was, in keeping with the mood of the morning, a relatively soothing period but the racket of thudding fists carried enough of an echo to remind onlookers of the dominance meeting Joshuas way later this month. The 27 -year-old is the favourite with most bookmakers but complacency would be absurd against a soul who has been there, said and done, and is entering the ring not because he necessitates the money but because he is determined to remind “the worlds” he remains one of “the worlds largest” sturdy heavyweights and, yet again, has what it takes to be a champion.

Wladimir Klitschko was uncharacteristically indecisive against Tyson Fury in 2015. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ Reuters

Failure is an experience and Im coming after a demolish[ against Fury] with a quite different posture, Klitschko says. I learned more about myself, about boxing, through that defeat. Unfortunately I cannot change it, or have a second hit like in golf theres no mulligan for me. But Im not a destroyed man.

This may sound arrogant but I am like Mount Everest. You can clamber it during a certain period of time during two weeks in April I conceive and pronounce: I overcame Everest. Then youve got to run down because its going to take you down if you miss the time.

Some make it back but a lot of beings succumb, so is Mount Everest defeated? No, its still there and its going to take another life this April.

Sky Sports Box Office will show Joshua v Klitschko exclusively live on 29 April. To notebook going to see www.skysports.com/ joshua

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Wladimir Klitschko:’ This may sound pretentiou, but I am like Mount Everest’

The 41 -year-olds training camp in the Alps looks like the train for a repugnance movie and he tells Sachin Nakrani he is in the mood to give Anthony Joshua a scare when they meet on 29 April at Wembley

Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance consider this to be the lay for a slow-burning, creepy-crawly horror movie. With its rocky background and somewhat kitsch interior heavy wood panelling, stripy sofas it brought by rememberings of the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kings The Shining. Walk through the lobby, past all staff members garmented in lederhosen, and it feels like simply topics of day until a clock goes off, a bozo springs out and a person falls down the stairs.

But on this spring visit there is no horror to be had. Instead, amid the restaurants sector and prohibits, the spas, saunas and swimming bath, resides a narration of redemption. Or, as Wladimir Klitschko places it, fulfilling an obsession.

The heavyweight is here to prepare for his bout with Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on 29 April. Stanglwirt has been his pre-fight base since 2003 and a residence he describes as a residence away from home. It is easy to see the appeal for all its Heres Johnny! calibers, the complex , now more than 250 years old, is a beautiful situate to invest some time. Pristine, picturesque, heated, friendly and with batch to do and ingest. For Klitschko it is somewhere to get his thought and mas right, which now more than ever is important for a boxing enormous who, as he acknowledges, is about to take on a career-defining challenge.

Klitschko has not fought since his shock defeat to Tyson Fury in Dsseldorf 17 few months ago. It was an outcome that is not simply deprived the Ukrainian of his WBA, IBF and WBO entitles but too of his mantle of near-invincibility. Dr Steelhammer, a fighter who had locked 53 of his 64 wins across a 27 -year career by knockout, was outgunned by a man who dressed as Batman for one of their pre-fight news conference. Fury was a pun, yet after a unanimous points decision on 28 November 2015 he was the one laughing.

Much happens to Fury since that night and one of the consequences has been Klitschko missing out on a rematch that would have rendered him with a chance to prove he is no busted flush after a fourth defeat since growing professional in 1996. Unfinished business, as he employs it. Now, ultimately, arrives the chance for him to go again against a British fighter.

Wladimir Klitschko and his physio Aldo Vetere at the Stanglwirt hotel. Photograph: Johann Groder/ AFP/ Getty Images

Joshua, the IBF champion, poses a different threat to Fury a year younger at 27, stronger and more deadly. Then there is the arrange: a stadium Klitschko has never fought at, in front of a 90,000 sellout gang. He goes there on the back of his longest period of immobility since first lacing up a duo of gauntlets, and having precisely switched 41. Little wonder this most assured of men is full of questions, full of mistrusts, as he spoke at Stanglwirt.

This fight is 50 -5 0, Klitschko suggested. Can the younger guy make it? Has the older person still got it? Interrogate markings are making this event really interesting. Ive never had a pause for a year and a half. Is it bad? Is it good? Will I have rust? I crave the answers myself.

One thing I believe is I dont experience my age. Its not empty words. I am get in best available influence of my life, physically and mentally. I dont look Im remain and not improving, even in a athletic Ive been involved with for so long. Thats what interests and agitates me.

Klitschko certainly looked well as he communicated, flanked by his administrator, Bernd Bnte, and his manager, Johnathon Banks.

The body abides enforcing and defined, his face chiselled and those handwritings continue to look like weapons of mass destruction. Requested to predict how the fight with Joshua will go, Klitschko developed his fists and nodded towards them in turn. Funeral or infirmary? Hospital or funeral? I dont need numerous punches to knock person or persons out.

That was a rare moment of trash-talking bravado from the veteran( alongside the moment he claimed Joshua goes confidence from his muscles and is better suited to bodybuilding ).

Generally Klitschko was respectful of his rival, bear partly out of the fact Joshua goes into their fight on the back of a perfect professional preserve 18 wins from 18 battles, all reached via knockout and partly because of the respect Klitschko developed for the man from Watford, having invited him to be a sparring partner in November 2014, before taking on the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.

He impressed me with his attitude, Klitschko announces. He was in the background and reading. Sometimes you need to be quiet and are watching, and he was discovering everything. He could also box, so I yielded him ascribe and I was there in the arena when he prevailed gold[ at London 2012 ]~ ATAGEND. Every medallist in the super-heavyweight discord at the Olympics has to be considered successful. He has a lot of potential and so far has done good.

Unlike Fury, Joshua is likely to engage with Klitschko from the first bell, looking to flora his feet and unload bombards as frequently as possible. On one hand that provides the challenger with a standing target not to mention a presumably susceptible chin but on the other it makes he will have to engage himself, something Klitschko did merely in the 12 th round of the Fury fight when his uncharacteristic indecision against a moving target “ve been given” him no choice but to go for broke. Ultimately it was too little, too late.

Klitschko holds he has learned from his mistakes and will be fully prepared for the challenge by the time he arrives in London on 26 April. Until then it is a matter of working hard and biding focused, something that was there to see at Stanglwirt.

The scene was a converted tennis tribunal in the bowels of the hotel. In the middle stood a reverberate while at one back were three punchbags hung in ascending ordering and at another a basketball net where, at around 8am, Banks hit hoops with another member of backroom squad as Klitschko went through a series of stretching exercises. Two television screens had been lay out presenting Joshuas previous combats, everything taking place to the voice of Motown classics. It was a tighten start.

Banks and Klitschko eventually underwent some pad work inside the ring. It was, in keeping with the mood of the morning, a relatively soothing period but the racket of thudding fists carried enough of an echo to remind onlookers of the dominance meeting Joshuas way later this month. The 27 -year-old is the favourite with most bookmakers but complacency would be absurd against a soul who has been there, said and done, and is entering the ring not because he necessitates the money but because he is determined to remind “the worlds” he remains one of “the worlds largest” sturdy heavyweights and, yet again, has what it takes to be a champion.

Wladimir Klitschko was uncharacteristically indecisive against Tyson Fury in 2015. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ Reuters

Failure is an experience and Im coming after a demolish[ against Fury] with a quite different posture, Klitschko says. I learned more about myself, about boxing, through that defeat. Unfortunately I cannot change it, or have a second hit like in golf theres no mulligan for me. But Im not a destroyed man.

This may sound arrogant but I am like Mount Everest. You can clamber it during a certain period of time during two weeks in April I conceive and pronounce: I overcame Everest. Then youve got to run down because its going to take you down if you miss the time.

Some make it back but a lot of beings succumb, so is Mount Everest defeated? No, its still there and its going to take another life this April.

Sky Sports Box Office will show Joshua v Klitschko exclusively live on 29 April. To notebook going to see www.skysports.com/ joshua

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Wladimir Klitschko:’ This may sound pretentiou, but I am like Mount Everest’

The 41 -year-olds training camp in the Alps looks like the train for a repugnance movie and he tells Sachin Nakrani he is in the mood to give Anthony Joshua a scare when they meet on 29 April at Wembley

Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance consider this to be the lay for a slow-burning, creepy-crawly horror movie. With its rocky background and somewhat kitsch interior heavy wood panelling, stripy sofas it brought by rememberings of the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kings The Shining. Walk through the lobby, past all staff members garmented in lederhosen, and it feels like simply topics of day until a clock goes off, a bozo springs out and a person falls down the stairs.

But on this spring visit there is no horror to be had. Instead, amid the restaurants sector and prohibits, the spas, saunas and swimming bath, resides a narration of redemption. Or, as Wladimir Klitschko places it, fulfilling an obsession.

The heavyweight is here to prepare for his bout with Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on 29 April. Stanglwirt has been his pre-fight base since 2003 and a residence he describes as a residence away from home. It is easy to see the appeal for all its Heres Johnny! calibers, the complex , now more than 250 years old, is a beautiful situate to invest some time. Pristine, picturesque, heated, friendly and with batch to do and ingest. For Klitschko it is somewhere to get his thought and mas right, which now more than ever is important for a boxing enormous who, as he acknowledges, is about to take on a career-defining challenge.

Klitschko has not fought since his shock defeat to Tyson Fury in Dsseldorf 17 few months ago. It was an outcome that is not simply deprived the Ukrainian of his WBA, IBF and WBO entitles but too of his mantle of near-invincibility. Dr Steelhammer, a fighter who had locked 53 of his 64 wins across a 27 -year career by knockout, was outgunned by a man who dressed as Batman for one of their pre-fight news conference. Fury was a pun, yet after a unanimous points decision on 28 November 2015 he was the one laughing.

Much happens to Fury since that night and one of the consequences has been Klitschko missing out on a rematch that would have rendered him with a chance to prove he is no busted flush after a fourth defeat since growing professional in 1996. Unfinished business, as he employs it. Now, ultimately, arrives the chance for him to go again against a British fighter.

Wladimir Klitschko and his physio Aldo Vetere at the Stanglwirt hotel. Photograph: Johann Groder/ AFP/ Getty Images

Joshua, the IBF champion, poses a different threat to Fury a year younger at 27, stronger and more deadly. Then there is the arrange: a stadium Klitschko has never fought at, in front of a 90,000 sellout gang. He goes there on the back of his longest period of immobility since first lacing up a duo of gauntlets, and having precisely switched 41. Little wonder this most assured of men is full of questions, full of mistrusts, as he spoke at Stanglwirt.

This fight is 50 -5 0, Klitschko suggested. Can the younger guy make it? Has the older person still got it? Interrogate markings are making this event really interesting. Ive never had a pause for a year and a half. Is it bad? Is it good? Will I have rust? I crave the answers myself.

One thing I believe is I dont experience my age. Its not empty words. I am get in best available influence of my life, physically and mentally. I dont look Im remain and not improving, even in a athletic Ive been involved with for so long. Thats what interests and agitates me.

Klitschko certainly looked well as he communicated, flanked by his administrator, Bernd Bnte, and his manager, Johnathon Banks.

The body abides enforcing and defined, his face chiselled and those handwritings continue to look like weapons of mass destruction. Requested to predict how the fight with Joshua will go, Klitschko developed his fists and nodded towards them in turn. Funeral or infirmary? Hospital or funeral? I dont need numerous punches to knock person or persons out.

That was a rare moment of trash-talking bravado from the veteran( alongside the moment he claimed Joshua goes confidence from his muscles and is better suited to bodybuilding ).

Generally Klitschko was respectful of his rival, bear partly out of the fact Joshua goes into their fight on the back of a perfect professional preserve 18 wins from 18 battles, all reached via knockout and partly because of the respect Klitschko developed for the man from Watford, having invited him to be a sparring partner in November 2014, before taking on the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.

He impressed me with his attitude, Klitschko announces. He was in the background and reading. Sometimes you need to be quiet and are watching, and he was discovering everything. He could also box, so I yielded him ascribe and I was there in the arena when he prevailed gold[ at London 2012 ]~ ATAGEND. Every medallist in the super-heavyweight discord at the Olympics has to be considered successful. He has a lot of potential and so far has done good.

Unlike Fury, Joshua is likely to engage with Klitschko from the first bell, looking to flora his feet and unload bombards as frequently as possible. On one hand that provides the challenger with a standing target not to mention a presumably susceptible chin but on the other it makes he will have to engage himself, something Klitschko did merely in the 12 th round of the Fury fight when his uncharacteristic indecision against a moving target “ve been given” him no choice but to go for broke. Ultimately it was too little, too late.

Klitschko holds he has learned from his mistakes and will be fully prepared for the challenge by the time he arrives in London on 26 April. Until then it is a matter of working hard and biding focused, something that was there to see at Stanglwirt.

The scene was a converted tennis tribunal in the bowels of the hotel. In the middle stood a reverberate while at one back were three punchbags hung in ascending ordering and at another a basketball net where, at around 8am, Banks hit hoops with another member of backroom squad as Klitschko went through a series of stretching exercises. Two television screens had been lay out presenting Joshuas previous combats, everything taking place to the voice of Motown classics. It was a tighten start.

Banks and Klitschko eventually underwent some pad work inside the ring. It was, in keeping with the mood of the morning, a relatively soothing period but the racket of thudding fists carried enough of an echo to remind onlookers of the dominance meeting Joshuas way later this month. The 27 -year-old is the favourite with most bookmakers but complacency would be absurd against a soul who has been there, said and done, and is entering the ring not because he necessitates the money but because he is determined to remind “the worlds” he remains one of “the worlds largest” sturdy heavyweights and, yet again, has what it takes to be a champion.

Wladimir Klitschko was uncharacteristically indecisive against Tyson Fury in 2015. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ Reuters

Failure is an experience and Im coming after a demolish[ against Fury] with a quite different posture, Klitschko says. I learned more about myself, about boxing, through that defeat. Unfortunately I cannot change it, or have a second hit like in golf theres no mulligan for me. But Im not a destroyed man.

This may sound arrogant but I am like Mount Everest. You can clamber it during a certain period of time during two weeks in April I conceive and pronounce: I overcame Everest. Then youve got to run down because its going to take you down if you miss the time.

Some make it back but a lot of beings succumb, so is Mount Everest defeated? No, its still there and its going to take another life this April.

Sky Sports Box Office will show Joshua v Klitschko exclusively live on 29 April. To notebook going to see www.skysports.com/ joshua

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