I haven't really had a problem finding good vegetarian food on this trip, so it's been kind of hard to see where the English get their reputation for bad food, but then again, I've mostly been eating variations on my favorite American foods, and not the local, mostly meat-based dishes. So for my experience at least, English food ain't all that bad. A couple of other librarians and I share a taxi from Newbold to Heathrow. Yeah, we're plenty early for my flight, but that's OK because it takes awhile just to get through the check-in process. It's just after the big Royal Ascot race and just before Wimbledon.
Security is pretty tight.
I fill out a slip volunteering myself to be bumped and spend and extra day in London, but I don't get taken up on it. On the flight home I decide to stay awake for the whole ride, watch all the sitcoms and movies, and try to enjoy the flight. However, I'm sitting near the back and outside of the plane, so it's tough to hear the sound over the engine and air noises. Even tougher to see the films when the flight attendants are constantly going up and down the aisle in front of me doling out coffee and food. I finally give it up and read while listening to one of the music channels on the headset over and over.