Not many people taking flights or any other form of travel these days. Now it’s been announced that anyone arriving in the UK from Monday will have to quarantine for ten days or face a £10,000 fine. They will be charged £1,750 to stay in a specially selected hotel which will cover one person, their bed and board and testing. An additional person will pay an additional £650. I think you’d have to be desperate to get here if you’re willing to pay that for a mystery hotel stay. Flights between now and Monday will no doubt be sold out. Honestly, I don’t get it, the pandemic’s been raging for a year and they decide to quarantine visitors now when so many of us have been either vaccinated or already had it. Just saying.
A different type of traveller was the teenager who stowed away on a flight from London to Holland. It was a surprise to everyone that the young Kenyan man survived his ordeal as he was hiding in a space next to the landing gear and would have experienced freezing conditions at 19,000 ft. The plane had travelled from Nairobi via Istanbul before arriving in Holland. I’m guessing that the stowaway wasn’t in his final hiding place all that way. The lucky young man was taken to hospital suffering from Hyperthermia.
A mother and daughter found themselves in court this week for starting a drunken brawl on a flight from Manchester to Morocco. The pair refused to sit down and used foul language to the staff and the plane had to be diverted to have them removed. The 57 year old mother received three months in jail and her daughter three months suspended for 12 months. They have both been banned from EasyJet flights for ten years. Lock ’em up I say and for longer.
The Cornish fishermen are fighting back after their trade has been hit by Brexit. Two of their biggest exports are to be rebranded in the hopes of attracting the British market. They’ll probably have to cover it in batter and provide malt vinegar too. The fish in question is Megrim sole and spider crab both of which I’ve purchased and eaten when I lived in Spain and they are very tasty. They will be called Cornish sole and Cornish King crab.
We all know that problems can occur when on zoom reunions of any sort. In Texas all the court case seem to be heard using this method. As one case recently started an attending lawyer had his face covered with a cat filter. His son had been using the computer and left the filter turned on. The judge warned the lawyer, I believe you have a cat filter turned on and you might want to remove it. The lawyer said he had tried but it didn’t work. He added, it’s ok judge I’m here, I’m alive, I’m not a cat and I believe we can continue. Which they did. Hey people let’s be careful out there.☃😴💤😴 ☃