Grounded!

Post no3. Things are not begun quite as well as I had hoped. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH122 - scheduled departure time 3pm - has not got off the ground yet. It is now 8pm. I think the plane's radiator might have run out of water or it needs a few new spark plugs or perhaps the battery's flat (I bet MA is not with the NRMA). They were the three main issues with my much-despised 72 brown Kingswood station wagon when it wouldn't go. Mind you, that wasn't all that ever went wrong with it. Just ask my mate John Wilson - I am sure he would remember the occasion when the mongrel thing stopped halfway up Bulli Pass and we nearly got smashed up by the world's biggest coal truck being driven by the South Coast's crankiest truckie. We only just got out of that one. I think that was the alternator that day. If only my 17 year-old son was here. He would know what to do. He's 10 weeks into an automotive course at TAFE so he'd have it covered.

The problem now is that I think I am going to miss both of my connecting flights. I had a scheduled stopover in KL arriving at 8.30pm. Even if we left in the next half an hour that would mean that the plane wouldn't get in until about 1am. Don't think I am going to make it out of KL for Rome tonight somehow. As for the connector form Rome to Venice - got Buckley's there. Speaking of Buckley, is there anyone who can actually tell me who Buckley was and why his name is referred to in such a cruel and disparaging way? I know a couple of Buckley's and they are very decent people.

Sorry to break off abruptly but it looks like we are about to go. Can you believe that! I have just heard that Malaysian Airlines is in NRMA after all and the problem was the NRMA service vehicle bringing the new battery (told you) was simply stuck in the M5 tunnel. Who'd have thought!

Update to follow...

Wearily..
Mark