If you had read more of my writing you would realise that comments such as that are fully tongue in cheek.

Of course I was not being serious.

I would normally (in posts, rather than trip reports) use a wink smiley to indicate this, but as my trip reports are written in Word and then copied across to FT, I don't tend to use smileys in my trip reports, which I can understand may lead to a misinterpretation.