Kuwait City 31st August 2007

Well after a resonably short flight from London of 5hours 30 minutes i am here is Kuwait with an average daily temperature at this time of year of 47 degress or about 119f, unbearable and when leaving the airport it is like walking into a very hot sauna and someone blowing a hot hairdryer in your face.

Hotel is nice and free breakfast was great and with a 0630 pick up tomorrow for airport and may squeeze breakfast in before the crew bus leave for the airport.

Flight here checked in at 2100 and we took off at 11pm, yes, a short flight but considering i had been up since 0900 and then all night it's tiring, Passenger sin First and Business class were mostly women with huge shiny expensive designer handbags and all desperate to but some duty free goods and spend spend spend, what a life to have no money worries.

I fly with people who live in houses worth 1million£££ + and there is me in a modest 3 bedroomed one bathroomed house, Now, did they marry money for a comfortable life, or did they marry for love? This is the question that i guess would never be answered honestly by cabin crew colleagues.

I do think i should be able to redesign my bathroom and have some personal luxuries at my age but it seems in the UK we work to survive while other countries work for luxuries.

I hate my bathroom and my lounge is looking tired, the hallway and upstairs needs redecorating , dining room is ok and the garden needs some decking or even better an extention of a conservatory. A loft extension would be good with an en-suite but then again it all falls back to money. My partner likes his job and his 4 on 3 off, 3on 4 off work pattern really helps with having the dog to take care of and although we have a lovely dog walker called Angela we only use her maximu, 4-5 times a month. But i also know many of my colleagues partners earn in excess of 100k and my partner is on about 14k with bonuses included so money is a little stretched sometimes and i do subsidise him without him actually realising.

I have one more traumatic body clock trip we call back to back, it shoudl be renamed a back to front. On 4th September i fly to Boston i leave on 5th flying through the night arriving early morning of 6th in London, i then check in for Chicago on 7th leave on 8th and night sector arriving early morning on 9th so 4 atlantic crossing in a short period but we do these once a month and sort of battle on to get them over and done with until 28 days later when the next one appears on the roster.

I will sign off now as a 0530 wake up call in morning for vile daylight sector flight to London when few passengers will sleep and we will be kept on our toes by people who i used to be pampered by servants in their every day life but get a shock as we will not tolerate this sort of approach, We are always polite but never treat like thirs class citizens by anyone!!!!