Bit of a result this morning. I was lying in bed browsing the world wide web when it occurred to me that we were staying in Liverpool this coming Friday. Doubletree Sir Thomas Street. Anyway I decided to look at our room rate and compare it with what I could get if I did a new booking. Lo and behold saved seventy quid and cancelled the old booking. Always v satisfying when you do that.
I rarely book the pre pay rate as I like the flexibility of the flexible rate. In fact the one time I did book the advanced saver rate it was in London because the meeting had been arranged at short notice and London hotel prices are exorbitant at the best of times and can be even worse when booking only a week or two in advance. On that occasion and after I’d prepaid for the hotel, the customer cancelled the dinner and it was rearranged for a few weeks later. Still went to London and had a night out. After all, I’d already paid for the room. The things you have to do eh?
Off to see the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight today. Never been in all my forty odd years of living in Lincoln. We are usually only ever in the Conningsby at weekends at which time the BBMF is closed. The do displays all round the country innit. Won’t be any displays today as the weather is crap and I don’t think they do it on weekdays. Dunno. The Lancaster might well have taken off in all weathers in ww2 but these days it is far too precious to risk any conditions other than a pleasant light breeze. I like a pleasant light breeze 🙂
Will report back, hopefully with lots of pics. We are lucky that the Lanc and the occasional Spit are oft to be seen gracing the skies above Lincolnshire. They fly through the air with the greatest of ease…
Breakfast this morning was a couple of slices of seeded sourdough toast with butter and marmalade washed down by a glass of milk and a cup of tea. Fox came at nineteen minutes past midnight and also twenty past seven this morning. I need to somehow find out whether we are talking a single individual or two different beasts.