UK Flights grounded

As I live around 15 miles from Heathrow I am finding an unexpected benefit from the closure of the airport. The noise of the planes doesn't really bother me and I rather like seeing them overhead. I am close enough to see them taking off, and lining up to land. Recently we seem to be where they turn to line up for the airport - I can even tell which runway is in use by where the planes are if I bother to think about it - and I have been woken by the sound of them turning overhead in the mornings. None of that now. Complete - almost eery - silence. It does seem strange not seeing the big jets flying overhead, and no con-trails either.

Who'd have thought a little old volcano would shut down most of Europe's air-space in this day and age...