We made it (just).

Allo all, from our third day in Bangkok. We actually only just made the flight from Heathrow. Anyone who knows us well knows we are super anal with punctuality, hence we left Peckham with 4.5 hours til the flight. However we weren't banking on the journey there taking two hours, squashed up against all of London's other commuters (it was one of the most packed tube journeys I've ever had, awful). And we also weren't counting on this bomb scare at Heathrow.

The short story is: we made it to the gate with two minutes before they filed us onto the flight. The longer one entails us hopping from foot to foot for over two hours in the departure queue with no idea if we would actually make the flight, no announcements from the officials as to whether flights would be delayed on account of this (they weren't), and a pack of whining oldies behind us. After the bag x-rays we started running with our shoes in our hands to the departure gate, and thankfully it was a close one.

A close one indeed.
(I thought this sort of scenario was what we were expecting in Asia, not London!)