So its Wednesday and we are on our way to Luxembourg. Means long car drive to the airport (Humberside) but I did get the great view of the river and the north and south banks from the Humber Bridge as we crossed. Many people consider the Humber a ‘dirty’ river carrying as it does the muds from both the Trent and the Ouze. However I have seen seals in it and when there is a low sun particularly in an evening the surface shines and you could believe it was a ribbon of liquid mercury.
Anyway Mike is flying Business Class today. (Doesn’t happen very often, but apparently all the ecomomy seats to Luxembourg had gone. Methinks that with a ‘captive’ market that the airlines don’t have to many economy seats, but what would a small bear know?) This means we get in the business lounge – very comfortable chairs, free newspapers and a TV in the corner showing Jeremy Kyle! I think it was the American Jerry Springer show that was described as ‘human bear-baiting’ the Kyle show is more akin to putting two starving pitbulls terriers in a ring with a single piece of steak in the centre, then giving them each electric shocks as they try to approach it. The sad bit is that these pitbulls volunteer for the ring, each either hoping for Warhol’s ephemeral 15 minutes of fame, or to get public payback on people that have hurt them – throwing christians to the lions was probably on a higher moral level.
Anyway our litte plane has landed 20 minutes late – doesn’t bode well! However we have the best part of two hours wait at Amsterdam airport so should be OK. Despite the fact that there are crisps and biscuits in the lounge, they are not catering for small bears – I will ask Mike to complain. He has already had breakfast and says he doesn’t need anything to ‘nibble’ – but he was straight into a bottle of Buxton mineral water – which of course he shared with me.
The Kyle show is still on the telly and don’t know who I think are more silly, the people putting themselves through public humiliation in front of ?300,000? People on television, those in the audience who appear to be like the women in Paris around the Guillotine during the French revolution, or even worse the ?300,000? who are watching. I will not even describe what is being argued about apart from the points that it involves DNA tests, OMG I am hooked (and silly).
Do you like I, hate the ‘Nokia’ default ring tone. Whilst the mobile manufacturers, like the network operators have reduced the numbers of available ring tones on the phone as it arrives, lots of money is now made from the downloads, otherwise people leave it on that horrible ‘theme’. We had two go off in the short bus ride from the airplane to the terminal at Amsterdam Schipol – most annoying. However Mike perked up when a third phone rang the Banana Splits theme tune (shows his age)
Anyway Mike is flying Business Class today. (Doesn’t happen very often, but apparently all the ecomomy seats to Luxembourg had gone. Methinks that with a ‘captive’ market that the airlines don’t have to many economy seats, but what would a small bear know?) This means we get in the business lounge – very comfortable chairs, free newspapers and a TV in the corner showing Jeremy Kyle! I think it was the American Jerry Springer show that was described as ‘human bear-baiting’ the Kyle show is more akin to putting two starving pitbulls terriers in a ring with a single piece of steak in the centre, then giving them each electric shocks as they try to approach it. The sad bit is that these pitbulls volunteer for the ring, each either hoping for Warhol’s ephemeral 15 minutes of fame, or to get public payback on people that have hurt them – throwing christians to the lions was probably on a higher moral level.
Anyway our litte plane has landed 20 minutes late – doesn’t bode well! However we have the best part of two hours wait at Amsterdam airport so should be OK. Despite the fact that there are crisps and biscuits in the lounge, they are not catering for small bears – I will ask Mike to complain. He has already had breakfast and says he doesn’t need anything to ‘nibble’ – but he was straight into a bottle of Buxton mineral water – which of course he shared with me.
The Kyle show is still on the telly and don’t know who I think are more silly, the people putting themselves through public humiliation in front of ?300,000? People on television, those in the audience who appear to be like the women in Paris around the Guillotine during the French revolution, or even worse the ?300,000? who are watching. I will not even describe what is being argued about apart from the points that it involves DNA tests, OMG I am hooked (and silly).
Do you like I, hate the ‘Nokia’ default ring tone. Whilst the mobile manufacturers, like the network operators have reduced the numbers of available ring tones on the phone as it arrives, lots of money is now made from the downloads, otherwise people leave it on that horrible ‘theme’. We had two go off in the short bus ride from the airplane to the terminal at Amsterdam Schipol – most annoying. However Mike perked up when a third phone rang the Banana Splits theme tune (shows his age)
