So the flight ended up being 2 hours 20 minutes late. BUT… we got a free coffee (small) and a free croissant!!! So it was all worth it and I was then pleased to have been ridiculously delayed and eventually arrived home at midnight rather than the somewhat more leisurely 9.30 as was planned. Man plans, God laughs. Ain’t that what they say? God must fly BA. Though not really their fault: ‘allegedly’. And normally, because we’d been getting warnings all day (on my APP) we could have pitched up two hours later at the airport. Except we’d coincidentally but happily (phah) co-ordinated our flights so that we flew about 10 minutes before Rachie’s flight back to Berlin. So we could all go together. Her flight wasn’t delayed. German efficiency. With EasyJet?

But we’re home and its cold here. Yesterday morning I was in the sea and it was 30 odd degrees out there. Today I have no sea and even if I did I wouldn’t go near the sodding thing. It’s cold. 4 degrees so far. Feels like -20. Only Scottish people go into the sea in such climes.

And so its back to the run up to the election. Boris has a 14 point lead over Labour. But Theresa May had something like that before the last election and that didn’t go quite so well. I think if parliament’s hung this time, most of the population will opt for the same fate rather than have to endure another 2/3/4 years of Brexit bollocks.

But much more importantly, than the election and mass suicide of a considerable proportion of the electorate, is VAR. The thing that is ruining football. That has produced nothing positive in the beautiful game. Other than two marvellous decisions against Manchester City in Spurs games. Other than that, its just shit. It’s a cluster-fuck of nonsense and stupidity. My lovely son-in-law was at the Spurs match on Saturday and told of a 4 minute delay (if 24 hours is a long time in politics, 4 minutes is eternity at a football match) for VAR, during which not one word of explanation, instruction nor cause was mentioned to the crowd. Even though the stadium is brand new and has so much high tech wizardry and big screenery and public addressability and the ref has a mike and headset. But its a secret.

No-one likes VAR, no-one wants it and they’re having a meeting this week with the head ref to decide whether to abandon the project mid-season. I’d vote for that. Much easier decision than the election.

Happy back-to-work day

A xxxx