I have just been up to Cobham Services on the M25 to collect my bike from Nigel and Trevor who drove up from Sault yeterday then crossed the Channel this morning.

Just a footnote on yesterday’s air traffic controllers’ strike. The woman I sat next to on my flight yesterday was originally booked to fly direct from Marseilles to Madrid but had to fly via Heathrow with a very tight connection. Others on the flight had missed connections to Japan and the USA and had to continue today. My two hour delay pales into insignificance.