What a great weekend of flying......Friday evening, a gentle launch from Eastnor Castle near Ledbury in clear skies, landing in a huge cut field on an estate with a smashing gamekeeper allowing us to retrieve without any problems........Saturday evening gave us a fairly fast flight from Cheltenham, landing on a former RAF airfield, now used for gliders, Bannerdown Airfield. Conditions of permission to recover the balloon were that Nobby the pilot had to buy all the passengers a drink in the Gliding Club bar!!!!
Sunday morning was from Bath landing south of Chew Magna lakes, again with nice landowners allowing no less than 3 balloons to be recovered! The only upset for me was the verbal abuse given to me by a chap who thought that balloon crews were from Satanic lands and out to kill all livestock and rip farmers off!......Said chap was not a landowner and very lucky that I did not rise to his obvious bait for an argument....ever the diplomat!
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Used to come across people that when I was amore regular canoeist. Usually went something like this>
ReplyDelete'This is my water you're paddling on'.
'Is it? I'm ever so sorry, which bit is yours then? This bit (point to patch of moving water) ; or that bit; or that bit? Oh look it's gone down river now....'
"You trying to be funny.'
Paddle onward; two fingers to the wind.
Mark