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How can people be so ignorant (in its real sense? They must know nothing about English to make these howlers.

More syntax than grammar.

I drove from RK to GLA (ICAO designators) in the early 70s, not courtesy of TAA, as it was then (and should be now), but down to me, as the RK-BN flight was full, and lo and behold Derek Nimmo and retinue were waiting for the same flight at Gladstone. I wonder if any of you has ever heard of...

My Irish passport (which is a useful addition to an AU passport) has just run out, but I used it as recently as last year to enter the UK. It has a digital signature only, so it must be a new requirement - of the gnomes in Brussels presumably - to sign the passport on receipt. I'd have renewed...

Good grief; I seem to have used the wrong name for the dinner. Abject Apologies. Are you always so rude, Karen? So you have changed the name of the dinner. Large deal. Is that any good reason to attack someone who has stayed at the resort and done the right thing? Someone who has spent a...

My first sighting of a Kindle was on a QF flight from BNE to SIN in, I think, 2010, as the bloke next to me in J had one, and I though what a nice bit of machinery so I ordered one as soon as I got home. It arrived in September and was terrific for a while, and the browser was slightly useful...

Oh dear. What a dreadful situation in which to find oneself And you in the top one per cent of royalty! Goodness one, bion, We who are mere golds, silvers and general riff-raff are appalled to an enormous degree. Poor you.

There are two major airports in Houston, and the Level Nine tour is a must. Personally I'd always enter the US via HNL. It's important - perhaps especially for you - to remember that the Yanks did not win WWII by themselves (when they eventually had a go at the end of 1942, no less than...

Except that we went to Antarctica with Silversea In December 2018, it could have been the same voyage from Ushuaia we took; a dreadful flight from Santiago to Ushuaia and back, cattle class all the way and a really bad cattle class at that. Incidentally, there are five continents, one of which...

You are totally wrong about protocol, by the way. We live in a commonwealth, with several state governments, which have certain rights and responsibilities, some of which they ceded to the Commonwealth Government at 1/1/1901, and others later (such as Have you ever wondered why we have state...

He did not lie about it, Hvr; it was a state problem; where was the premier of that state, Hvr?

Surely you jest? How many teachers and their pupils are working hard at their books? None, I would imagine. How many of them are fighting fires? Very few, no doubt. I do not live in an inner-suburban enclave and my anxiety was relieved for the moment by a recent storm, an anxiety it appears...

The North-East is Queensland So our PM is not permitted a week off, although it is a state problem, which has nothing to do with him?

Excellent verb, sack, unlike the headline's.

We are not talking about passport control. It was incredibly slow last November (2018) John, if you consider half an hour or so slow, as I did after a fourteen-hour flight across the Pacific with my son. We had no idea this was coming, and incidentally it was for Australians only. No one...

Interesting thought. Very few people know Latin now, so I gave up on "fora" decades ago. but I must admit that "forums" still grates.

Thank you, although I rather doubt the slightly greater frequency from Tontouta to SYD rather than from and to Brisbane is terribly relevant - perhaps that's Qantas (Joyce) again. I'm sure you're aware that Noumea is directly east of Rocky and off central Queensland. As it is so close to...

Adverse or averse?

Should they?

The logical route surely would surely be to fly from PER to BNE followed by BNE to NOU; very close to a great circle compared to a dog-leg via SYD. You wouldn't have the ludicrous change at Sydney airport, which is surely the slowest and most grief-ridden transfer from domestic to...