Thanks very much, Littlegirl, sammyh25 and Lite for your very full responses. Much appreciated.

About the champagne, no great problem. Just to say that I did mention our anniversary to the trolley person but no worries. We had plenty of spumante later.

I find the mozzarella wrap most edible and a great improvement on the previous ET offer.

I mentioned that we were last off onto the bus. As we were coming down the steps, coming up were two replacement cabinet doors accompanied by handymen, so I guess the problem must have been recent and radioed ahead.

About the AC seats, I had printed off our 9AC BPs. The helpful bag drop lady had to reprint them because of a 'configuration change'. Aha, I thought. Curtain moved. No, the change was from an A320 to an A321 with the curtain in the same position. As it happens, we were moved to 11AC with an empty B so were happy.

On the way back, I OLCI'd at about T-16 but didn't print the BPs. 5AC still showed until I clicked when they disappeared. The curtain had been moved and 6AC were gone. Our proposed A320 had become an A319.

I did wonder what would have happened at LHR had we just had hand baggage and self-printed BPs showing unchanged seat numbers. Presumably we would have got as far as the BP check at LHR before being turned back.

My main groan about recorded announcements in other languages is that they fail to convey any of the helpful information provided by cabin crew and flight crew in English, just 'the captain has switched on the signs' or some such. On my main Euro route (ZRH) the supposedly 'Swiss' arrival announcement just grates, though it was amusing when on arrival at ZRH once, we were asked to fasten our seatbelts. Why, even the Swiss tittered. (I except the occasions when we hear fluent German from a live flight deck or cabin crew person!)