Category: Journal

After delays totaling more than three hours at the weekend there, I believe my love affair with the UK’s low cost airline is over.

The first delay was forgiveable – fog had meant that our plane was diverted elsewhere and they had to source another plane. But the delay of the return flight was a glaring example of piss poor customer service. We were initially told that it had been delayed by half an hour. Later I found out that they knew that the plane hadn’t even taken off at that point, so there was no way in hell it would make it in half an hour.

It would be annoying anyway, but if they’d said “The flight will be delayed an hour and a half” we could have left the gate and gone back into the airport for some food. But for some reason best known to them, they thought they’d top up the delay time every 20 mins or so!

You get what you pay for, I suppose, but for ten pounds more we could have flown from Heathrow (only a few stops from where we live on the tube) and avoided the hassle of getting to London Luton. So the next time I have to fly back to Scotland, EasyJet will not be an option

I attended the CART race at the Rockingham Motor Speedway recently and I must say, those champ cars are sensational! Not only are they the loudest form of motorsport I’ve ever attended (although apparently Santa Pod drag cars are louder), they travel at stupendous speeds.

The set up at Rockingham made for a couple of disappointments, though, with the leaderboard tower not working and the PA drowned out after the cars got going (although I’m not sure they could have done much about that), not to mention the short race due to the weeping track.

However, I’m sure they’ll sort out everything by the time the CART series arrives here next year – I’ll definately be going!

I felt a tinge of sadness when I found out that Intel are to scrap the Rex organiser at the end of the month. I own one of the more ancient models, but even so, while I made use of it I found it had everything I needed packed into the size of a credit card.

Of course, having moved on to a cutting edge Palm M505 PDA, courtesy of a very generous birthday present, my Rex has been put to one side now. Still, it was a good idea and deserved to be more of a success than it was. A bit like Urban Fetch. Sigh.