Edinburgh...just Edinburgh

On Wednesday I flew from Heathrow on a BMI flight to Edinburgh. The intention was that my colleague would pick me up at the airport and we would drive to Aberdeen where I was due to give a presentation in the evening. It was a bit of a busy day already as the Lloyds TSB and HBOS thing was going on, I had a load of work to do and I could have done with being back in the office later in the week, which due to this trip meant I couldn't be. Anyway, I landed in Edinburgh and SK picked me up. We got as far as two islands out of the airport and the car died...it would turn over but not fire. We called the RAC and two hours later, the guy turned up. He pronounced it dead on the scene, thinking it was a timing belt failure. As the hotel we were due to be staying at were in Aberdeen, I had no choice but to head back to the airport (about 200 yds) and try and get another flight back. I managed to get on the 18:25 BMI flight back to Heathrow so I had a couple of hours to kill, but what a waste of a day...The flight eventually left at 19:00, so I arrived back home at 10:30pm, having achieved precisely nothing for my days work. To top it all off, the hotel had a cut off at 12:00 which meant we also lost the money on the rooms! Terrible day all round really...

I did manage to register for the new IRIS scan at Heathrow though. This is the new system of immigration which scans your retina when entering the UK at Heathrow (and some other airports). I should now be able to get through customs much quicker than previously.