The end of one of adland’s great stands

Welcome to Unmade, mostly written in Pret a Manger in Horsham, on a not-at-all-Springlike day.

Happy International Bagpipe Day.

It was a more eventful journey to the UK than I’d anticipated. QF1 enjoyed an extra three hours in Darwin. Apparently there was a “runway pavement failure”. I’m not sure exactly what that meant, but the gist of it was that the takeoff for our 18 hour trip to London needed to be over a shorter distance, which meant lightening the load.

While they figured that out, first the flight crew, and then the cabin crew, ran out of operating hours. Luckily for us, and unfortunately for the passengers travelling on the next flight an hour or so later, we were able to steal the crew intended for QF9 and eventually get away.