"meleagertoo", I defer to your comments re warm food but perhaps they had something else going on in the loo? Perish the thought. Wasn't the process to collect the meals from nearby housewives shortly before departure. Perhaps they arrived warm? WRT to your comment about cabin crew not bothering the pilots, I remember that after a pretty sporty crosswind landing at Manchester which severely tested the Dornier's u/c, the hostie whizzed up to the cockpit carrying a very nice picture of a daffodil in a pot. When I asked her what it was all about she said that she told the captain,"You planted it, now you can water it!". Happy Days.