My hold baggage allowance for the flight home from England was 50KG – carefully checked after August’s shenanigans but nice and simple this time as I wasn’t on a code share ticket.

Every last gramme and a bit more was used to bring treats; more-or-less half in a cardboard box and half in a suitcase.  The children had the pleasure of discovery – from pork sausages, bacon and a Cheddar cheese mountain, through cereals and chocolate – to hidden amongst some of the latter, Rennie’s much-missed blender and hand mixer that had been casualties of repacking when we moved to live here.  Somehow a bottle of Laphroaig from my father sneaked in there, too.  Thank you, Dad!

Steve