James Avery’s blog

What do you do when you have several different things to add to a Facebook status update, but none of them relate to each other?

How about a simple list? Here’s a quick 10:

Today, I am:

• Still in awe of the delightful concert of architectural anthems served up by the film ‘The international’ — but I have quite a lot more research to do before I can do any kind of full article on this.
• Amused that Ryanair are now advertising easyJet on their website.
• Reasonably pleased that I managed to book some flights to Italy (Birmingham to Bologna & Pisa to Birmingham) yesterday for just £9 return.
• Disgusted with the arrogance of Harriet Harman (one of four solicitor sisters), who thinks she can change the law to take away Fred Goodwin’s pension, after her colleagues signed it off. Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, taking our cash with it. And since when
• Wondering when this morning’s delightful sunshine will come back.
• Hoping to get back on the bike shortly. Saturday’s ride was good until Maxstoke - come on Lad, you need to do better than that next time.
• Supposed to be writing loads of stuff about flights to Germany, but writing blog posts is more interesting, even if it is much slower going.
• Hoping to finish work early enough to tidy up the front room.
• Looking back at my articles on airline handling fees and Ryanair’s suggestions about charging for on-board toilet use — I hope they are both useful.
• Putting out another reminder — the cheapest (or sometimes just the most interesting and best value) way of getting where you want to go can sometimes involve flying to another country — e.g. for flights to Switzerland, try Friedrichshafen in Germany and for flights to Morocco, avoid the Gordfather’s skyway robbery of £40 air passenger duty by taking flights to Gibraltar instead, and then going to Tangier by ferry.