Post by norfolkdick on Nov 22, 2008 22:08:25 GMT 1
Greetings,
I arrived back in the UK last Wednesday evening at Stansted airport from Fuerteventura to a clear windless and mild evening with a temperature of 11 degrees and thought ,winters here are getting milder each year. Thursday when I was hanging out my fortnights washing reinforced that possibly erroneous belief with temperatures here in Norfolk at a balmy 12 degrees……………reality strikes today; as I write (1945hrs) the temperature has dropped to minus 3 with a promise of lower temperatures to come. There is snow in the east of the county but thankfully none here. The still of the quite west Norfolk evening only being disturbed by the flashing lights of the gritting lorry (the Tornados and Euro Fighters seem not to be flying tonight, I supect like me they suffer from low light myopia) ; winter has arrived and I need to get back into the real world. After two weeks in an idyllic climate and wearing mostly nothing but my birth suit it does come hard!
The Fuertventura Kite Festival was wonderful and to me is the pinnacle of the kite flying year, nowhere that I have flown (I have yet to go to Fano) but including Dieppe, are so many kites in the air at any one time and for so long. Of course the wind in Fuerte. is generally good albeit rather strong but steady without gusts and lends itself to what the Fuerteventura festival is all about ; groups of friends meeting in the sun on a beach that is for all practical purposes endless and putting up kites and anchoring them and swimming in the sea and wandering about chatting. It really is the most relaxed of festivals, no doubt because in part it has little or no organisation.
I have yet to upload the photo’s that I took but Bernhard Dingwerth has already published his and this is a link to his most excellent images.
www.arcor.de/palb/foto_detail.jsp?albumID=4504868&pos=1&firstVisit=0&interval=0&noInfos=0&stop=0
This is for me the end of the Brighton kite flying year although I fly locally here in Norfolk and at my home club The Great Ouse Kite Flyers, it is a long haul to Brighton for a couple of hours of winter flying!
I would like to say what a great season of fun and enjoyment I have had this past 12 months with the ‘Brighton Bunch’ and for all your friendship and camaraderie I am most grateful and humbled. I am proud to say I am a member of the Brighton club. You will (I hope ) forgive me for hibernating from the Brighton Scene for the winter. I hopefully will emerge in the spring with the daffodils.
Best Regards
Dick Abbs
I arrived back in the UK last Wednesday evening at Stansted airport from Fuerteventura to a clear windless and mild evening with a temperature of 11 degrees and thought ,winters here are getting milder each year. Thursday when I was hanging out my fortnights washing reinforced that possibly erroneous belief with temperatures here in Norfolk at a balmy 12 degrees……………reality strikes today; as I write (1945hrs) the temperature has dropped to minus 3 with a promise of lower temperatures to come. There is snow in the east of the county but thankfully none here. The still of the quite west Norfolk evening only being disturbed by the flashing lights of the gritting lorry (the Tornados and Euro Fighters seem not to be flying tonight, I supect like me they suffer from low light myopia) ; winter has arrived and I need to get back into the real world. After two weeks in an idyllic climate and wearing mostly nothing but my birth suit it does come hard!
The Fuertventura Kite Festival was wonderful and to me is the pinnacle of the kite flying year, nowhere that I have flown (I have yet to go to Fano) but including Dieppe, are so many kites in the air at any one time and for so long. Of course the wind in Fuerte. is generally good albeit rather strong but steady without gusts and lends itself to what the Fuerteventura festival is all about ; groups of friends meeting in the sun on a beach that is for all practical purposes endless and putting up kites and anchoring them and swimming in the sea and wandering about chatting. It really is the most relaxed of festivals, no doubt because in part it has little or no organisation.
I have yet to upload the photo’s that I took but Bernhard Dingwerth has already published his and this is a link to his most excellent images.
www.arcor.de/palb/foto_detail.jsp?albumID=4504868&pos=1&firstVisit=0&interval=0&noInfos=0&stop=0
This is for me the end of the Brighton kite flying year although I fly locally here in Norfolk and at my home club The Great Ouse Kite Flyers, it is a long haul to Brighton for a couple of hours of winter flying!
I would like to say what a great season of fun and enjoyment I have had this past 12 months with the ‘Brighton Bunch’ and for all your friendship and camaraderie I am most grateful and humbled. I am proud to say I am a member of the Brighton club. You will (I hope ) forgive me for hibernating from the Brighton Scene for the winter. I hopefully will emerge in the spring with the daffodils.
Best Regards
Dick Abbs
