Letter From Big Brother

Yes, I know, I'm meant to be catching a plane but I'm all organised, kinda, and so have time to kill. This is why it's so wonderful living in HK where they can organise you down to the nth degree - you can do check-in in town - AND the trains run on time! Hitler really should have just moved himself off to Hong Kong instead of doing all that nonsense in Germany.

Anyway, just got a gorgeous letter from Big Brother and have to share it. Yes, I know he hates me doing this but it's really all his fault for having such great adventures and sharing them in such entertaining ways:

Ah, yes, Rex, our local airline.  I usually only travel with
Rex as the only thing regular with Qantas is the delays,
"Time to spare? Get Qantas there", should be their mantra.

Now Rex has really earned its spurs.

We were due to leave Melbourne at 3pm last Sunday.  We were
told there was a mechanical problem with the Saab aircraft and
we would board at five.  Then at five they announced that they
couldn't fix it the problem so Rex would have to get another
plane flown down from Wagga.  This duly arrived and we boarded
at 6.30.  Then we sat on the tarmac with the engine running
for 20 minutes while security drove out and shot a dog or fox,
illegal immigrant or something, that was loose on the runway.

Then the pilot said, "Thank you for all your patience,
you would think nothing else could go wrong, but it has.
We have a mechanical problem with this aircraft, and we are
now on our way to Wagga... ", and as an afterthought, "but don't
panic, the aircraft is safe".

Don't panic?  Don't panic! I don't watch "Aircraft Crash
Investigator"just for fun you know.

We arrived in Wagga and waited 90 minutes before reloading
for an uneventful flight to Mildura arriving at 10.45 pm.
No illegal immigrants in Wagga.

Uneventful that is, but for a magnificent shooting star that
lit up the whole western sky.  It was green, so I suspect
was a bolide, exactly as in the image attached.



Hey, Big Brother ... not really trying to one-upmanship
on you or anything, but that's exactly what I once saw
in the Oz Outback, only that time there were about twenty
of them!