Most of us are pleased when our bags our delayed.

We take with us essential and personal items in our (limited) hand baggage.

We ensure our bags are clearly labelled both inside and out with all the necessary details to re-unite us with our bags asap.

And we have excellent Travel Insurance - so an incident like yours turns into an enormous shopping spree courtesy of Amex.

Though few us us have wives were we to do so I am sure they would be luxuriating in a nice deep bath we had drawn for them, in a suite at the Four Seasons surrounded by candles and bubbling with Jo Malone Lime Basil and Mandarin bath oil, the room filled with bags bursting with spoils from the Mall.

In fact our would be wives would probably be having a holiday to remember!