That Green Airline

Just because it's a low-cost airline, does that mean it absolutely has to smell as though the floor's been mopped with a bucket containing a solution of 1 part water to 3 parts urine?

And while I agree that having hygienic little covers to encase the head-rests is a genteel touch, it's less useful when they are all missing - leaving 180 velcro-topped seats to anchor your clothing the instant you lean on or even brush past one. Judging by the crop of faded multi-coloured wool trapped in the velcro, this has been a long-standing conition.

Added to this, the flight was 20 minutes late, ran out of sandwiches after we'd been in the air just a short time, and I had to endure the pain of watching a teenage girl ram her stuffed cabin trolley into the overhead locker right on top of my fragile, artfully gift-wrapped paper bag of Body Shop goodies.

I've been on trans-continental flights that seemed shorter.

But It was all worth it because here I am with friends in the lovely Cape for the weekend, trying to stop obsessing about the sluggish legal battle to recover my missing fortune from dodgy pony-tailed laptop guy.