Boarding started almost exactly at 6pm and I was first on board G-EUUG which I was last on in August for the NCL-LHR run



1C again for this second flight of the day and propped on top of 1B as usual to avoid the battering



Menus have been distributed



The safety briefing is in progress and whomever is doing the speech is really faltering. I asked the IFM if he was new. “Believe it or not he has 27 years” was the laconic reply

18:47 and we are trundling around Heathrow, not long now, hopefully!