Bomb scares, London at 2am and Lost luggage

Life's full of surpirses or at the time one might say frustrating attacks at me personally because every one is at war with me and my family...aaarrrrh!......

Thursday night was ok, made the Stansted to London Express train with 30 seconds to go and arrived nicely in Liverpool street at 12:45am Friday. So ran out the station, from the blur..y picture you can see the speed... to catch a London Taxi to a Comfort Inn not too far away in central London.

I think the cab driver thought I was on a scenic tour because every other taxi sped past as if we were at walking speed. Anyway slept at 2am ready for the next race across town, onto the Heathrow Express, repack in the airport to accomodate the new travel requirements that state you can only have a pencil case size hand luggage with nothing in it due to the risk of terrorism! Ok that was slightly cynical!

I needed to pick up 2 new phones for colleagues and had pre-purchased my tube ticket ready to return to Victoria tube for a quick exit to Paddington, only to arrive and everyone is leaving the tube station with the tanoy in the background ringing "all passengers please leave the station, all passengers please leave the station , this is an emergency". I turned to the taxi rank to view about 80 people in a queue with no taxis!

Found one about 100m from the station flagged him down and now in a sweat was driven to Paddington, great I thought that's my problem for the day, free sailing now :)

Got to Heathrow, repacked, took my laptop only on board and settled down in the BACK seat of the plane....hello BA....I can't recline so far on this seat, isn't there a food drawer in the galley that's more comfortable, I'll have that please.. so much for frequent flyer card!

So we land and I'm out of the back of the plane with my landing card and 5th in the queue for immigration..straight through customs and first at the luggage belt....1 hour later..... last at the luggage belt! One case missing, only the case with the new phones....please no more, I've had enough now....

So another 20 minutes while one man serves a dozen people, one form at a time which he has to fill in and I leave through baggage check and yes you guessed it, I get searched.! Wire's, clothes, 2 laptops, playstation steering wheel for the boys, everything, all undone...

I'm off to the airport now, they say my case has arrived....mmmm....not sure whether to believe them or just turn up and expect to find the zipper and everything else gone....

Life's quite calm today...as if it never happened!