Virg,
you were very fortunate, last year LST to base chk was 7 weeks + for many including myself, all without pay of course.
However, after 10 months on line, over 700 hours on type, a local base which gets me home every night, I cant complain too much and am just happy to be reasonably busy for now.
Lots of low hour mates left for a better life at Easy, Globespan, Jet2 etc and are having second thoughts, the grass is not totally green anywhere!!!