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I'm still leaning to CX and BA. CX have good availability currently but are hard to top-up so will tilt to them. Avios have other ways of acquiring (eg boost, subscription) and in theory its possible to access QR via VA which is not devaluing.

It would have been but they were obliged to get me to HKG which wouldn't have been for a while given the weather event

Get on the official ESTA site. its not straightforward. As well as the old demographics and questions of turpitude, they now want the details of all held passport numbers (took a trail of my emails to find my expired UK passport details) and Facebook/Linkedin etc usernames. Go to pay. Click...

Now I know you are all disappointed to be missing the Berlin stopover and the QR and CX flight reports. Believe me I was too. But I was feeling relieved that I'd be back home in time for mstrandye3's presentation. I go to the BA desk and tell them I'm a no-show for LCY-BER. Took a couple of...

Not sure. A now-defunct butcher called Kennedy's in East Lane market was considered best when I wss young. But I always had an aversion to the jelly

And then my mobile data crashes. Settle down into a cafe with wifi. FIre up google flights for anything ex-LON or BER. A couple of Y options around $1.5k via Vietnam and Taiwan but maybe not the best idea flying through SE Asia. Anything via Middle East considerably more. Then onto seats.aero...

My internal monologue was resembling Hugh Grant's opening scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral. My previous hire car logistical challenge fades into insignificance (and this isnt my fault). I call an Uber and get onto Alaska (the issuers of the QR award flights). Short wait, helpful agent. But...

I agree paying an inflated fee to get extra points wouldn't stand up as deductible if scrutinised. Deducting the standard fee for the normal points is reasonable IMO as you van argue you are using a portal for convenience, cash-flow whatever There are also some people who genuinely believe that...

That's what I call manufactured spend I always thought money landering implied that the initial funds were nefariously acquired

Oops you are right Mygov no Easypay yes

Can still pay via mygov :)

Separate title deeds I believe. I dont think any of the residents actually have titles though

Following day was the start of my return trip. LCY is a pretty easy airport to depart from so I hadnt planned on getting there too early. I was just on a zoom to attend a rather testy Medical Staff Council meeting, when I received a call from Cathay to say my HKG-SYD flight had been cancelled...

I prefer to use a QF earning card there for the bonus point for QF spend

After catching up on our families' lives and assorted ailments, take the train back to London Bridge. There is a bit of a wait for the next bus to mumandye's so I stop off for a Guinness at one of my favourite pubs, The George in Southwark. It's a old coaching inn originally built in the 1600s...

And so to set off for Sussex. Longish drive (by UK standards) and around the M25 with a few go-slows Drop into Crawley to return suit and pick up some wine and flowers (no proper florists open on Sunday so not the best) The Green Motion LGW drop-off looks like a farm but reasonably efficient...

Yes, I usually pay asap before bill due. The couple of months delay I mention is that is the point at which lost interest on cash in my offset account makes the accrued Amex points borderline worth it

I'm with @Chicken. These particular cards are very useful online where surcharges for Amex apply especially if you have an Edge so I try to buy as mamy as I can use in the next 2 months. The bonus VA points are good and a decent quantity but still cost 1c each as in lieu of FB discount. Wouldnt...

But unlike last time didnt make it to breakfast (forgot 🤔 to charge phone) so only got to say goodbyes online. Reception accommodating about late checkout. It wss a definite success with plans for another one...and possibly an antipodean one in the interim for those of us in the southern hemisphere

I get a bit of kudos for making the trip from down-under (three of us did) but the real plaudits should go to the organiser who is based in NZ. Food was decent enough.. ..and you can usually fill a dance-floor in these sort of events (seems to be easier when youngsters arent around; school...