Safe and sound in Ulsan you'll be, no doubt, glad to know. Allatsea that is. Thank you Korean Air for a smooth and punctual, if a little 'dry' journey from blighty. And a further thank you, richly deserved, for the designers and operators of Incheon and Gimpo airports. A real pleasure to use, absolutely. Oh BAA, apart from being a complete shower of *#ite my Heathrow experience en route just served to compound my very great wish for you all to feature in an accident (fatal) report form as soon as possible.
Great airy cavernous delights of user friendliness compared to miserable archaic anger centres. Cathedrals of delightful function contrasting with concentration camp styled processing centres complete with humiliation raining ghastly staff (BAA staff only do I refer to here) barking orders at the long suffering, bewildered punters. And guess which airports have got the highest landing fees and per pax handling fee. Yep, right again!!!!!! Eeeh, it makes you proud to be British .....ahem!!
Straight into the fun that is 'sailaway'. A HAZID, conducted by Frenchmen and Koreans, in English and attended by only one natural English speaker (yours truly) ended by having more open issues than when it started. It's no wonder, I don't think any of us understood anything that anyone else said. I know I didn't. Doesn't bode well for the big day though. A wander round the beast, and I have to say here and now that it is a MONSTER, size wise, revealed that there's more work to do than even the most optimistic peeps could hope to finish in time. Given a month they'd break the back of it. They've got a week to complete the lot. Watch this space.
Back home I see our glorious constabulary are no longer content just to murder innocent chaps on the underground or to shoot a bloke in his own front room who was upsetting the garden sparrows firing his game gun loaded with birdshot. In Manchester they've actually heightened the level of incompetence at which the 'elite' firearm squads operate, arguably they've brought it to near Zenith. They actually shot a colleague dead in a training drill. Not only that but they achieved it with only 1 shot. A great improvement because the Brazillian lad on the tube was shot 7, yes, 7 times from less than a metre range (heroic policeman taking no chances there then) and the Barrister in London the other week required to be shot 9, yes NINE times by the highly trained marksmen of the Met firearm squad!!!!!
The next time I'm having a round of skeet and I miss High 1, I shall demand of the match referee that I have another 6 goes at it. If after that I still have't been successful, I'll get half a dozen oiks with macho blue SWAT uniforms on (perhaps even one of those fetching chequered police baseball caps too) to hold that pesky clay down while I give it both barrels.
Sorted.