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Post by Administrator on Jul 11, 2008 7:45:14 GMT 1
It's this weekend and the sun is out here in Brighton
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Post by Batchoy on Jul 11, 2008 11:01:17 GMT 1
Sunny here in Baldock too, but they still cancelled Bon-bon's sports day for 'Health and Safety' reasons (the ground is damp from the rain) . However it does mean we get to leave earlier, in fact within the next half hour. ;D Sunny Brighton here we come...
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Post by chrisandjamie on Jul 13, 2008 21:01:34 GMT 1
Just like to say thank you to simon and all those that helped orgainsed a great festival once again.
We will be back next year? Definitely
regards chris and jamie and niamh
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Post by greenman on Jul 14, 2008 0:22:01 GMT 1
Back at home, just. What a weekend. ;D ;D ;D If it was a game of poker, it would have been a royal flush. Far to many people to say thank you to.
I have now got very sore legs & 4 more kites in my bag.
Come on lets have all your stories from the festival. Buggies on the hill. Pants in the arena. Danny's Friday workshop. & much, much more.
I will post mine tomorrow when i get home from work.
Cheers, Greenman.
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Post by Bonefish on Jul 14, 2008 8:56:20 GMT 1
well this one could take some thinking about ! friday to sunday was AWESOME to say the least it's hard to put into words how much i totally enjoyed the festival the company the award presented to me on saturday by the club shocked me a little so i think i may have to write a article for aerodyne now thanks simon makes it all worth while dave for suppling me with kites to fly , even if they was on garden string !!!!!!!!!!!! and all the gang for their generous hospitality
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Post by D-Alien on Jul 14, 2008 9:49:45 GMT 1
Our Thanks to everybody for a great weekend, it was great to meet up with some friends we havnt seen for a while and we certainly made plenty of new friends :-)
Dave n Marie
Pictures will all be online in the next couple of days and i will post a link to them
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Post by Administrator on Jul 14, 2008 11:23:46 GMT 1
The Club would like to say a very big thank you to all those that made this years festival one of the best ever.
From those that spent the best part of a year getting ready, to those flying kites on the day in and out of the arena, helping with the children's workshop, BKF tent or running round the Field checking everything was happening when it should. Without the help of each and everyone of you it is not possible to run the festival, so thank you.
It was record breaking in several ways, the children's workshop was busier than we have even known and almost run out of kites and again we broke the record for the most Martin Lester designed Spirits flown at any one time and place (as far as we know) we had 25 in the air at one time.
OK same sort of time next year or not.
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Post by phkite on Jul 14, 2008 11:44:28 GMT 1
YES
11th & 12th July 2009 is the second weekend in July next year.
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Post by bow on Jul 14, 2008 11:52:48 GMT 1
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Post by D-Alien on Jul 14, 2008 13:29:33 GMT 1
Yes - 11th and 12th of July 2009 Myself and Marie will be there
Oh yes - we have to be :-)
Thought that date rang a bell
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Post by Administrator on Jul 14, 2008 13:37:01 GMT 1
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Post by C2LLN on Jul 14, 2008 13:48:27 GMT 1
Come on lets have all your stories from the festival. Buggies on the hill. Pants in the arena. Danny's Friday workshop. & much, much more. I will post mine tomorrow when i get home from work. Cheers, Greenman. Although not disappointed, I thought it was rubbish! I keep saying I wont do it again but always seem to…inaccurate information described in fine detail and completely wrong, as usual. I am NEVER checking the weather forecasts again , or having HAY BALES on standby, because of useless ‘predictions’!
As for the festival, EXCELLENT, the not as ‘predicted’ sunshine WAS in abundance thought the weekend, enough (only just!) wind for most kites, 90% of the attending CAMPERS flying kites, plenty of public of all ages attending…enthralled and participating, good arena displays by invited fliers and the club, happy traders, *raffle, BBQ and Club prize giving, (WHERE was mine? Brass is fetching a good price at the moment). It would only have taken the one shower of rain to ruin everything, changing the appearance, atmosphere and attendance of the event, thankfully that never happened and it was nice to see so many smiling faces, googly eyed and enjoying the free spectacle, the club sponsors must have been pleased! Even the ring master seemed to be (slightly) less stressed out than last year, but just as enthusiastic with his whip cracking, although we didn’t all jump through the hoops!
The Spirit fly attracted a lot of attention, it always does, and I think Martin Lester will be getting a call soon as there were a lot of enquiries aired from ‘wanting’ public and ‘feeling left out’ club members!
* I won raffle prize no35, a flexifoil lanyard/key ring in spite of not putting a ticket into that draw? The real winner wrote ‘Del Boy’ on his entry ticket, and (ridiculous as it sounds) the assumption was it was ‘Collin’, really can’t see how the connection was made to ME? Gratefully accepted however, but if the real Del Boy wants to claim it……I did put 8 tickets into the bag to win back the Ray Ban sunglasses though!
Made a nuisance of myself by approaching kiting friends (from all over the country!) to sponsor me to Abseil down Peacehaven Cliffs on September 7th in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust, and through their generosity raised £213.30, SO FAR, more pledged! Thank you all that did dip into their pockets, incidentally that was EVERYONE I approached, I could see the fear and hesitation in your eyes friends, GIVING money to Collin, will he spend it?? Jesting apart, I propagate my own bad press, you all wouldn’t have sponsored me if you really had any doubts about my intentions, and every single penny WILL go to the Charity! If I missed asking YOU, apologies, there’s still time until September, I will find you or you can always find me first!
That's my brief personal account of a superb festival, in “its hard to fly kites down there” ‘Stamner Park’ but it sorts the perseverance in the men from the boys, great camaraderie with club members and kite fliers old and new, thanks to them that DO the unseen, voluntarily, hard mental and physical work behind the scenes, to present the centre piece of the Brighton Kite Flyers year, putting on a display of 'who we are' and 'what we do', to the, well…World really…..PostScript: I strongly complained to another kiteflyer who was flying an identical Asda multicoloured 'keyboard' delta kite that I have always flown over the past year, always at the legal altitude limit of course, informing him he was clashing with my kites colour scheme! His retaliatory comment was that HE had purchased 80, yes 80 of them, and flys them in stacks....currently maximum 7 in a stack as they pull like a train! Yes I remember his 'train' from Swindon KF now!! I withdrew from the conversation, tail between my legs....
Much later in the day, going home time at 7pm on Sunday evening, to be precise, he stopped to say goodbye. He said he had a fantastic time here, he has NEVER been made so welcomed at a kiting event ANYWHERE, and felt like all our members greeted and talked to him like he was a long lost friend! Usual format for the BFK, they also talked 'behind his back' to his face....what a young wife you have. NO its my DAUGHTER he had to explain, more than once!! I hope he doesn't mind me naming him, I've never met him before, it was Mr Dereck Kuhn and DAUGHTER Clara, both seasoned kite fliers and he runs kite workshops (.co.uk) in Solihull, W Midlands. As a parting gesture he presented me with two Asda kites that he has modified to 'stack'....wouldnt accept any money for them, just pass the 'good deed' on......
;D Summarised the festival and why I mix with kite fliers and what the BKF club is about. ;D
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Post by Batchoy on Jul 14, 2008 16:48:16 GMT 1
Woke up this morning a gibbering wreck having had terrible a nightmare about tying hundreds of knots in fine slippery thread whilst a voice repeatedly asked 'What are you like with sellotape?', then suddenly having to ask hundreds of children to borrow their fingers.
Then I realized it wasn't a nightmare but two days in the children's workshop. It had actually happened! Maybe we could sell the idea to the Americans as new method of torture enhanced interrogation ;D
Fool that I am, I'm up for it again next year.
Having had great weekend, thanks to all those who made it possible both in the preparation and on the weekend. Plus I went home with the same number of kites that I arrived with even though I sacrificed one in the Indian Fighter demonstration, and I didn't put a kite anywhere near a tree.
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Post by norfolkdick on Jul 14, 2008 19:52:32 GMT 1
Greetings, I simply want to say what a super time I had at the festival. I laughed constantly all three days and surely that is the test of a good festival, it should be more than anything else lighthearted (and dare I say it) infantile fun! I had a great time and I hope to never grow up!
A very big thank you to the committee and all of those involved in the organization and running of the event, it was your efforts that made it fun for me; thank you.
Best Regards Dick
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Post by dreamcatcherwolf on Jul 14, 2008 20:48:57 GMT 1
Sorry we missed it...
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