Feeling relaxed

So here I am on the plane, about to fly from Edinburgh to Innsbruck. James is sitting beside me doing his Sudoku and I have just played my daily game of Wordle, my new obsession, which I love. We’re feeling very relaxed; we arrived in loads of time for our flight and had lunch with Heather and Ewan in Wetherspoons before boarding. 

I can hardly believe that our PCR tests were all negative and that we are on our way and I feel very excited. I’m looking forward to seeing the snowy mountains and to getting onto the slopes again. 

On a completely different and less pleasant subject, two middle aged men are in all sorts of bother today. Prince Andrew has been told that the civil case against him in America for having sex with a minor is going ahead, and as a result the Queen has now removed all of his military ranks and most of his titles including HRH. What a sleaze - I’m glad that he wasn’t available to come to my school dance with me when I invited him in 1977! 

And Boris Johnson is in trouble for having parties at 10 Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown, with people unable to visit relatives, even if they were dying in hospital. He tried to claim first that it didn’t happen, then that he didn’t know, then that it was a work gathering, and eventually apologised - even though he continued to maintain that technically he hadn’t broken the rules. At first I didn’t think that it really mattered about a few stupid parties when the civil servants had been working together all day, but having thought about it, I feel that it does indicate a “them and us” attitude, with the government thinking that they are better than us ordinary folk. 

Well none of that is going to spoil my happy mood, time to switch to flight mode on my phone - chocks away!