Another Crazy Week

Has been another crazy week. Went up to Aberdeen for 3 days to work on the project and then came back on Wednesday night to attend a conference on Thursday & Friday. The plane was supposed to leave at 8.30pm but was delayed for 2 hours due to a gas leak in London, which shut down Heathrow for a while. When we landed at 11.45pm, the pilot told us that there was no dispatcher to operate the airbridge to let us off the plane! We waited another 15 minutes for someone to come. When we finally got to the baggage carousels, there were 100s of people there from 3 flights earlier. Turned out that when they shut Heathrow, they sent all the baggage handlers home and didn't get anyone to come back. Eventually, they go a few handlers in to do each plane one after another. Got my bags at 2am. Fantastic.
The conference on Thursday & Friday was great. Got to meet more people from the company, many of whom are French, Italian, German etc living in the UK. I have found that my accent neutralises when I talk to people over here - not the Aussie twang that my grandfather can't understand.
I am beginning to appreciate how good we have it in Australia. The financial system here is crap. It takes 3-4 days for money to be transferred from 1 bank to another. 3-4 days! What are they doing, walking it over from one city to another? Also can't get nice bank statements online. Tried the Help function on the website and got - go to statement and then go to File and Print. No letterhead, no nice formatting, nothing. I have to pay my rent 3 days earlier than the due date to ensure that it will arrive on time or I get hit with a fee. What rubbish!
Anyway, have half moved and will move the rest today. No access to Internet from now on at home until we get it set up. : (