The Starting Post

One usually feels the need for leave as an increasing pressure relieved only when the last duty is complete. Such things as preparation for travel no longer stress me as we are very experienced in UK and foreign travel and Greg is a proficient packer. My relief came soon today and my only disappointment was that a dark afternoon did nothing to encourage any preamble to our latest meanderings. I have enough things in mind to fill our time in Cornwall and remain flexible if the weather remains, as seems likely, unkind. We sometimes risk failing to enjoy the present by dwelling too much not on the past but, strangely, the future. We spent some time this afternoon considering our travel arrangements for November when we fly to New York to join Celebrity Silhouette. In fact we reached no firm conclusions.

I am feeling very privileged and excited as I have received permission to do some photography in the Ops Room  to support a forthcoming Heathrow nostalgia evening. As one of Heathrow's living fossils I am pleased to contribute and hope that my photographs will be good enough to distract from the mostly mythical anecdotes about my past years in Heathrow Tower and no fewer than three approach rooms.

My blog will remain updated and illustrated throughout our travels and I hope you enjoy both prose and pictures.