I ran out of time to post on Monday (and the story I teed up last week has yet to get final approval for publication) as my windscreen wipers packed up and I had a rush to get to Teesside International Airport (Durham Tees Valley in 21st Century language). Then with 6 hours of shouting at people yesterday (training to you) another blog day passed by.

In any event the real excitement of my journey south was the A list celebs travelling with me. At Heathrow I bumped into Ming "the merciless" Campbell at the bagrec carrousel and on the way back I followed Teesside's X Factor finalists Journey South down the steps and through customs.

Oh the star studded life of a jet legal services consultant.