Kirkwall International Gate 32F

Deep joy; just as we are boarding at Heathrow we receive an email from BA indicating that our return leg flights from LHR - ABZ - KOI are cancelled due to a 48hr strike. I blame that Louis Blériot. Or even The founder of BALPA: Icarus. I now wish I'd packed the croquet mallets.

My Baedeker travel guide says '...remember, you can always have a sunny holiday in Orkney'.

BA help staff in T5 are inundated with passengers. A spiv* has taken the opportunity to sell the huge queue remaindered copies of the Chic Murray joke book.

The Current Mrs Creel thinks something has shifted in my overhead locker.

*still pc in KW17 2RD