Volcano fun

[nevillew]

Won't crash if it's propellor driven will it ?

[Batch]

And there is no problem with ATC radar, given all the 'air' traffic is on the floor.

[ronnie21]

I'm wearing a facemask.



Just in case.

Thought you always wore one, didn't realise, sorry!




Expect to be called a cunt any time now!

[One F In Fitton]

I saw a girl crying on Sky news because she couldn't make her best friends' wedding tomorrow. Made me chuckle immediately - if this happened at a time when I was supposed to be flying to a wedding I would've been jumping for fucking joy. Talk about perfect timing, it's the sort of thing I'd pray for to get me out of going to a wedding.

[dell boy]

I'm meant to be flying out on Wednesday!

[Batch]

You'd be unlucky for it to still be going on by Wednesday.

[dell boy]

You'd be unlucky for it to still be going on by Wednesday.

Flipping hope it will be sorted out in five days.

[Samdy Gray]

My manager made me laugh today when she said she couldn't understand why we couldn't do something about the volcano erupting. Erm... perhaps because it's an unpreventable natural occurance that happens once every couple of hundred years.

That's what bugs me about all the media furore as well; something like this happens and it's all "oh no, what about our holidays abroad?!". I'm certainly no environmentalist, but mother nature was around a long time before us and deserves a little bit of respect.

[Sippo]

There was also a couple on the news going to a wedding in the US, but it was her ex husbands. She was going with her current husbund. Weird.

[Batch]

This is one of the reasons no chances are taken with volcanic ash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

was covered in a good "air crash investigates" episode. I bet the passengers have never fully recovered from that.

[Ardiles]

Just been outside to look at a clear blue sky with no vapour trails at all.  As the crow flies, we're less than 20 miles from Heathrow and less than 30 miles from Gatwick.  Very odd.

[Luci]

There was also a couple on the news going to a wedding in the US, but it was her ex husbands. She was going with her current husbund. Weird.

I saw that - thought it really odd too!  Her new husband was going to be best man to her ex husband and was vice versa when she got married! 

[Whits]

I was supposed to be in Slovakia with 20 other lads on a stag do flying out on Friday morning! Had to make some last minute plans to newquay Instead. Met loads of people who had the same problem!

[Nemo]

I saw that - thought it really odd too!  Her new husband was going to be best man to her ex husband and was vice versa when she got married! 

Now that is taking an amicable divorce a little bit too far.

[RedRag]

You might enjoy this one:

Passengers buy bikes for ferry

A British businessman stranded in France said he was had to buy a women’s bicycle to board a ferry in a bid to get home.

Tom Noble (52) from Highgate in north London, said ferry operator Norfolkline had no foot passenger tickets left and would only allow him to make the journey if he was a genuine cyclist.

The managing director said ferry staff at Dunkirk even made him ride the “rustic” contraption, which he had just bought from a second-hand shop, up the ramp. 

In fact, half a dozen people grounded by the volcanic ash had the same idea, and boarded the boat in a wobbling parade of two-wheelers.

One man, a British Airways gold card member, was riding a children’s bicycle. 

Mr Noble, the managing director of marketing company NeuroFocus UK, and his colleague, set off at 6am yesterday morning from Zurich in Switzerland.

The “epic adventure” involved six trains and three taxis just to reach the French ferry port. He was trying to get home for his wife’s birthday.

Speaking from on board the boat he said: “We were even forced to ride the bikes onto the ferry. You have to show you haven’t just picked one up from anywhere.

“But they are barely ride-able.” After reaching Lille the taxi driver misunderstood their instructions and first took them to a toy shop.

When the pair eventually made it to second-hand bicycle store he found a limited choice.

He bought a women’s bike in the classic French style for €49 (£43) while his colleague picked out a bright pink contraption with a giant basket in front.

Having arrived on British soil, Mr Noble said: “The ferry staff wouldn’t let us off as foot passengers. They didn’t just want to see us with the bikes, they wanted to see us ride them on and off.

“With two suitcases it was a tricky manoeuvre.

“If you read the rules it was the only way.” But Mr Noble said they were forced to dump the bicycles in order to get on a bus to go to the train station.

He joked: “It’s tragic. Having invested so heavily in these beautifully engineered bicycles, we had to leave them by the side of the road.”

But he added: “It’s been quite a laugh in a way.” Mr Noble’s daughter, Esme, a 19-year-old student at Nottingham University, booked the tickets yesterday morning when it became clear there would be no flights.

Waiting at home, his wife, Polly, who turns 51 today, said: “She rang the company and they said: ‘You need to have a bike.‘ She said: ‘What? Even today? Can’t you make an exception?”’ She was told it would not be possible.

Nobody at Norfolkline was immediately available to comment.