Light blogging

Just a quick posting to say that blogging will be light this week.

No, it’s not a protest at this week’s Labour conference but simply a consequence of having to travel to Southampton with work. Optimistically I still live in hope that the hotel will have wi-fi aswell as other luxuries in order to ease my evening boredom but given that said hotel has the phrase “Junction 7” in the title I will have to realistically settle on long evenings of sitting struggling to progress with my Spanish or, more ambitiously, driving down to Bournemouth to see my brother and check out some fringe Labour events at their conference, assuming of course that someone labelling himself as the SNP Tactical Voter doesn’t set off alarm bells on the way in!

The celebrity spotting for said conference is already underway as I am currently sitting 2 feet from (and 30,000 feet in the sky with) the heavyweight political commentator Brian Taylor. It is odd to watch Brian read The Sctosman. What thoughts are being processed by that razor sharp mind? One can only wonder. He did spend rather a long time reading about Britney’s latest fall from grace and skipped over the lead editorial on Brown’s potential gambit regarding calling an early action. But who am I to question The Master.

And to check our overall progress on this De Havilland twin propeller aircraft, we are either sitting above some thick British clouds or we’ve taken a wrong turning and are somewhere above Lapland.

I also have to take this opportunity to basically slag off Fly BE for being truly awful. I had heard of the phrase “Fly mayBE” being levelled against them, given that they tend to cancel flights. True enough, the Belfast flight got the chop at 6:45am. Things have to be bad if you’re cancelling one of your first flights of the day.

My own patience was tested by the check-in desks manned with people inexplicably on the phone as the growing queue stood still. Looking to our left, BA had clear desks and to our right, so too did BMI.

So despite my glaring at the many Kiwi supporters in the queue it clearly wasn’t their fault we were going nowhere fast. Even still, I do think we could have just given New Zealand their victory without actually having played the match yesterday, it might have eased the congestion slightly.


OK, well, it appears we’re landing now so as I say, blogging will be light this week.

Unless we come a cropper in this landing in which case blogging will be non-existent.