[limey]

I knew I should have given more detail, in the inimitable style of the Cellar's favourite raconteur. ..
I left home yesterday at 10am to be in plenty of time for the 11.05 ferry (it's only a half hour drive).
Because time was a little tight between the ferry arrival and plane departure I took a taxi to the airport (ferry crossing 55 minutes but it left late, taxi to airport around 50 minutes). Ticket prices forced me to fly to Heathrow (flight time on this occasion just over an hour), and I'd planned to stay with friends near Gatwick for my departure today so I took the coach (bus) link to Gatwick (about another hour, though on the M25 that could easily be far more). My friends collected me from Gatwick and we got to their place around 6-ish.
By my twisted logic the first two and a half hours of any journey from home (ie up to Glasgow station or airport) don't count.
That was day one.
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