I may actually be ready for my trip

[selenay]

I think that I'm ready to leave tonight. Yesterday's sense of complete panic has faded rather than getting worse and I'm actually feeling calm about the trip. It's probably because my bags are as packed as they can be bearing in mind that I needed my purse and keys at work today and, according to my to do list, I'm actually on track. Tonight's plans are to take the cats to their holiday home, have a quick shower, change into travelling clothes, eat supper and go to the airport. I should be home by 4pm and I don't need to leave for the airport until 8pm at the earliest.

Four hours is plently of time, right?

My Quaker contact decided to send me stuff today to go up on the website, urgently because one of the events is on Thursday. I have emailed back and explained politely that I am flying to England tonight so there is no chance that I'll get onto that today. I might see whether I can get the most urgent stuff sorted out tomorrow afternoon if Da can hook me up to the wireless network at the house. I'll also have to go to PC World to buy myself a USB mouse because one bit of the request involves graphics and no way in hell can I do graphics on a laptop touch pad.

Why does she always ignore me when I tell her my vacation dates? Or send me stuff three hours before I leave so that I can "quickly sort this before I leave". Ah, well, there's nothing I can do about this because tonight's plans do not have an hour's wiggle room for last minute website edits. Or, if they do, the wiggle room involves no shower and no supper. Dirty, hungry Sel on overnight flight? Have pity on my fellow travellers!

Right, do some work and then I can get on with starting my holiday. I am going to feel so much happier when I'm at the airport in Tim Horton's with some hot chocolate and a sock to knit. gmul - haven't spotted any mugs in TH :-( I can buy tons of coffee and put it into a mug, but currently no mugs to be seen.

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No knitting on flights to the UK

[funkyreunion.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the random friendsfriends driveby...

I'm checking various online resources, and unless something has changed very recently, the UK is one destination where you are *not allowed* to bring knitting on the plane. I'd hate for you to have it confiscated! It might be worth calling the airline to doublecheck.

Re: No knitting on flights to the UK

[selenay]

It's OK!

My plan is to knit in the main terminal until my gate is called and then stash the knitting at the bottom of my bag :-) It'll be on bamboo needles so there won't be anything to find on the X-rays and I'll be sleeping on the flight rather than knitting. I've heard so many different things from different people that I don't know what to believe anymore! I may ask one of the stewards at some stage during the flight (perhaps near the end...) as a hypothetical, the next time I fly sort of thing to feel out what would happen if I produced a sock on an itty bitty set of match-stick bamboo DPNs :-)

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Fret not about the mug, was just a thought. Look forward to seeing you soon!

[selenay]

I'm getting properly excited about this whole thing now :-)

[catseatsocks.livejournal.com]

4 hours is plenty of time! Have fun!

[catseatsocks.livejournal.com]

I also wanted one of those mugs. My mom got one for Christmas. Maybe they sold out.

[selenay]

I'm never good at judging how much time things will take so I either end up sitting around for an hour because I gave myself too much time or rushing because I gave myself too little time. I'm hoping that I get to sit around tonight rather than rushing to get there on time!