Recalled

Heading back to London on the 2015 flight from here tomorrow night to land Friday morning, ready for a full day of work!

I didn't get to see a single penguin or elephant. /sob

A quiet weekend in Jozi

The blindingly good night out on Thursday meant most of Friday was spent wandering dazedly around the office not doing much work. Saying goodbye to the other team was heartbreaking - no one to plan more frantic weekends, no one to use the English language as only a non-English speaker can, and no one to do the monkey dance. You guys are already being sorely missed.

So much so that I went to bed on Friday night at 10.30pm, passed out for close to 10hrs, had a two hour manicure-pedicure where I fell asleep again, and now I'm knocking around bored as hell.

This weekend is nothing like the last, when we got off the plane at Cape Town raring to go at about 10.00pm, stalked the streets for for the next five hours, in and out of clubs, and then got up again st 5.30am to go shark diving. 8 hours later, a quick shower then the sunset and wine on the beach, a massive drunken dinner, and more partying til about 3am. The morning passed unnoticed and everyone got rounded up at about 2pm slightly worse for wear while the hotel called around to ask if we would kindly check out already. Another long lunch under grey skies, and back to Jo'burg by 9pm, bed by 10pm.

Oops, off to lunch and Mandela Square!

BA versus MAS

BA economy seats are squishy and small, which doesn't make sense because British people are large. (-1)
BA air stewards don't bring you water at all during the flight unless you ding them (-3)
BA business class is basically economy seat + footstool, and the privacy screens make the entire set up look like coffins (-10). MAS business class makes you feel like a king! (+10)
BA might lose your bag (-5)
BA smells like MAS, that nauseating lemon spray laced with several thousand types of body odor. It hits you like a wall in the boarding tunnel. (-10)
BA screens are touch screens, which are genius - how many times have you got out of a MAS seat only to be very nearly castrated by the remote control wire wrapping itself around everything and then trying to shoot itself very viciously back into its hole (+5)
BA food trays are so messy. I don't know which one's my salad or whether it's actually the dessert, especially when the loser in front of you has not put the seat in the upright position when everyone is eating whatyouthinkyouowntheworldah?! (-1billion)

BA (-1billion and 4) on my highly accurate marking scheme, MAS (0).

No wonder MAS and SIA have like the best cabin staff in the world (and they don't lose your bags) - they aren't up against all that much.

The traumatic 10hr45mn flight to Jo'burg left me so tired, I watched my bag go around the carousel THREE times.