DAVEY CURTIS: As The Motors would say....Airport wooo woooo!

Dear Jon,

As you may recall, a young Belarusian lady called Tatyana was spending her Christmas holidays with us. On her return home she was due to fly first to Gatwick then on back home to Minsk at 6.30 in the morning. Those plucky Northumbrian ground staff cleared the snow from the runways of Newcastle in below-freezing conditions with their bare hands and their sleeves rolled up with nothing to keep them warm but the glow of their Embassy Regal king size tabs. Alas, the same could not be said for their southern shandy-drinking counter-parts! It seems that a little smattering of snow is not condusive to mincing about as the snow may wet their crushed velvet uniforms and damage their patent leather shoes so all flights out of Gatwick are cancelled! It seems Tatyana will have to put up with all that Seaham-on-Sea has to offer for a little while longer.

Regards

Davy C

P.S

After Redfern's little quip a while ago about Orb spiders, I feel justified in retaliation now and can safely say that if Redders worked at an Airport... it would, indeed, be Gatwick!