It's 6 O'Clock, Thursday 12th February, My Beautiful Jaqjaq is 45 today!! We're all packed and ready to go. Jacqui has opened all her cards from the children. Given them hugs and reminded them of the perils of Party's while we're in Berlin and they've promised us it will only be a small one. A few hundred close personal friends only. Reassuring!!

Now we're on the platform at Welling Station being those annoying people we moan about that has a wheelie case during the rush hour commute.

Train feels different when it's not taking you to work, even though I using the same route as normal so far. But the excitement starts at Leicester Square station when we use the Westbound platform instead of my normal eastbound and this tube train has Heathrow on the front!!!.