I am writing this from the comfort of my own home,

I probably shouldn't be as I am due to depart on my holiday in a few hours. Usually I would be frantically running around making sure I had packed everything, rushing to the airport in time to make sure that I get to sit next to my wife on the plane (although she may have different ideas) and standing in a massive queue which doesn't seem to be moving although the ones next to it are moving at lightning pace.

This is the start of my holiday every year, the one chance of a stress-free time and you start off pissed off. However, I have found a different way; today I took my bags to the airport 10 hours early, no queue, no screaming babies and no last minute worries. I checked in - we were the only people there, and the whole thing took only minutes; why have I not known about this before!

Right now I would usually be worrying about what I have forgotten to pack but now it is as useful as crying over spilt milk; the bags have gone, no worrying for me. Two hours before departure we will go down to the airport at leisure and simply get on the plane.

We may live in an age where technological advances have made it so we don't even have to find money for a phone call, work out how to use a VCR or write stuff on paper but I'm amazed that I can finally have a stress-free start to my holiday.

Will be blogging from Malta tomorrow, that can't be a phrase that is used much.

'til then, enjoy life.