Praise be! Assuming this will be a Priority Pass lounge, my occasional Ryanair jaunts to Ms Raffles' family will be substantially improved!

Stansted last night was a nightmare. There are no proper queues for the passport desks, because the desks are so low that you cannot see them from the back of the scrum!! Everyone scrums in together until you get close enough to see where the desks are.

When I get to the front of the queue, the young woman on the desk is wearing a very thin black see-through blouse with a red slip underneath. I kid you not. If this is some sort of new uniform trial then I am all for it .

Obviously despite 20 mins to get through passport control, no sign of baggage. It finally arrives 45 minutes after touchdown. However, the good news is that the M11, which had been closed, had reopened by the time the bags finally turned up ^ .

I used, as an experiment, www.luxuryairporttravel.com last night, because they were the same price as my local minicab boys and I thought they may be more professional (money-back guarantee if they are late etc). I had absolutely no complaints at all and am happy to recommend them. We paid the extra £15 for an executive car and had a big BMW thingy.