News

I had a long blog finished, but Jon checked on the what can and can’t go on a flight in this country and in Britain and it’s changed. I guess I should have checked the news earlier. So I’ll hold off until I see what the rules are actually going to be by the day we fly this week. May I just add that my fear of flying has nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with having been in a plane that had an exciting descent. I’d been phobic for years before 9/11. I’ll leave it at that right now. I’ve avoided commenting on the whole terrorist plot of recent days because I see the blog as an escape from some of that. But as our own flight gets closer it gets harder to ignore. I’m not worried about terrorists, just the restrictions of what I can and can’t take on a plane. I’m truly phobic, so I always believe that I am taking my life in my hands when I get on a plane. Bombs, mechanical failure, it’s all the same to me. At least with bombs and terrorists you can fight back or arrest them. A tiny engine part going bad in mid-flight, you’re just screwed.