I sent Mum my flight details and when I spoke to her she said, 15 hours isn’t so bad. In what world is 15 hours on a plane not that bad?  The only thing that could make it worse is if I have a bad back like last year or if I’m sat next to a man sexually harassing me like the year before. No thanks, I don’t want to share your earphones (that you cleaned last night) with you to watch Paddington on your iPad whilst your leg and arm are pressed firmly against me and I’m squashed up against the other side of my seat.  No thanks, I don’t want to come and stay at your house in Cambridge whilst you cook me one of your many dishes that I had to look at pictures of. Think I’ll pass on both of those things. But then, it wasn’t over when the plane landed! When we got off, he cornered me and basically made me give him my WhatsApp info! 

I’ve not got internet. 
You can connect to the airport wifi. 
(I needed internet so I could prove to him I’d given him my actual contact info…)

So yeah, let’s hope it’s better than those two experiences. 

Then she said have you seen that drawing George has done? I said George who? And she said Prince George, so I had a look. She said she didn’t think he’d done it. If they abolished the monarchy and they were having parties to celebrate that, I wouldn’t hesitate to make the 15 hour plane journey back to join in those, even under the conditions mentioned above!