11 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 11 June:

1. This date in 1951 saw the birth of Frank Beard, drummer with ZZ Topp. The way to recognise which one is him in pictures of the band: he's the one without a Beard.
2. On this date in 1509, the wedding took place of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Two weeks later they were crowned King and Queen of England. Prior to her marriage with Henry, Catherine was married to his older brother Arthur, but he died six months after the wedding.
3. In 1770, Captain James Cook ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The site where his ship Endeavour was repaired was later named Cooktown.
4. In 1960, a young man named Tommy Moore decided he'd quit as drummer of a boy band and return to his job of driving a forklift at Garston bottle works. Perhaps he thought that was a more secure job with a secure salary, but was no doubt kicking himself a few years later as the band in question was The Beatles.
5. In 1939, the King and Queen of England tasted "Hot dogs" at US President Roosevelt's party, the first British royals to try them.
6. In 1994, the largest Popcorn container was made and filled in Jacksonville, Fl. The box was 39'11.5" long, 20'8.5" wide, and 8' high; 6,619.76 cubic feet of popcorn.
7. In 1959 The first experimental Hovercraft, designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell and built by Saunders-Roe, was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
8. In 1881, future King George V and companions aboard a naval vessel, saw a strange ship bathed in red light glide past – and identified it as the legendary Flying Dutchman.
9. In 2005, The Mitsubishi Materials Corporation of Japan poured the world's largest Gold bar: 45.5 centimetres by 22.5 centimetres and 17 centimetres high, or 17.9 inches by 8.9 inches and 6.7 inches high. It weighs 250 kilograms or 551.15lb and contained $3.7 million worth of gold when it was poured.
10. In 1997 Mary Esposito of Forest Park Georgia won a bizarre competition nobody would really want to enter. She netted $1,000 and a year’s supply of cockroach control products in a competition to find the worst cockroach infested home in America. She had an estimated 75,000 cockroaches.

The Power of Love

Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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