I've Escaped!

No I haven't, not at all really, I've just arrived back in the UK for a few weeks. I have a holiday coming up and later two OU exams to sit, so I'll be telecommuting for a while.

I had a really pleasant flight back with Virgin Atlantic, Making up for most of my pain for my last Flight. Actually I received a nice lot of Flying Club miles after the last escapade so I have already forgiven them, although a voucher or just a brown envelope full of cash would have gone down better.

I had a window seat, with a vacant seat next to me. The lady occupying the seat spied an old friend sitting in the back of the plane and joined her for most of the flight. The space next to me gave me enough comfort to sleep quite a bit, always good on a long haul flight if you can do it. Usually with a stranger sat next to me fidgeting I find it very difficult to nod off. I think I'm worried about falling onto their shoulder and dribbling or something.

We arrived in Heathrow on time and exiting the plane was a calm and civilised affair, something quite rare on Lagos flights. There were no sniffer dogs waiting to catch the drug mules, or snail smugglers, whatever they are trying to catch. And my bag appeared not 5 minutes after I had reached the carousel.

I did note the new Iris Scanning machines at the immigration section, I was hoping to register my eyeballs with the government before leaving the UK in June so that I could give these things a go, but I missed the sign for the registration desk just after the security screening and found I wasn't allowed back to give it a go. Maybe next time.

Nothing much to Report. I suspended the Data Entry procedure at 19,000 forms because the remaining forms require a revisit to field to correct ommissions and irregularities before we can enter them. We need another 4,000 to complete this phase of our contract.

In the mean time, if you are missing news from Nigeria please visit the following blogs, all of which I read daily.

African Shirts, Musings of a Naija Man, NaijaBlog

Please note this is not an exhaustive list, I am working on adding a links section to this site after I upgrade the design. sometime soon depending on Google's upgrades to Blogger Beta.