In flight bulletin

After a slightly late take-off, the journey went without a hitch and my window seat (for which I had to request a middle-aged, non-English-speaking slavic couple to vacate my seat) offered me great views as we followed the Calder Highway past Gisborne, Macedon, Woodend, and home-town Kyneton right through to Bendigo with spectacular fluffy cloud formations to complement the view.

The middle-aged, non-English-speaking slavic couple also turned out to be a middle-aged, non-German-speaking slavic couple and the could comprehend neither the English nor German spoken by the cabin crew (I myself understood embarrasingly little of the latter). As a result they failed to provide great company and after the glue that bonded my face to the window was came unstuck by less-than-interesting views of hazy cloud I entertained myself with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette in In Her Shoes until I decided that the combination of my MP3s and the moving map provided better entertainment.

Landed in Singapore with a bump and rapid reverse thrust that felt like they were trying to pull up in record distance. It then took ten minutes at least to taxi to the terminal and at least that again to clamber over suitcases and limbs out of the plane.

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