Telscombe Tye - Sunday 14 September 2003

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"Something rotten in the state of Peacehaven ?"

I'd been looking forward to flying with our friends from BKF for some weeks, and ....... how would you react ?

I'd gotten up very early on a Sunday morning, driven for nearly two hours, parked where I did last year only to be met with a torrent of verbal abuse from some disagreeable harridan claiming to be a local councillor.

Other local councillors, who were able to speak without profanity, explained that I shouldn't have parked on the grass. So I moved my car, and wondered that if this was how the council behaved, what on earth would the thugs be like when the pubs threw out.

I had a plan to embarrass this old battleaxe by writing to the local papers about her, but none of the other councillors present would tell me her name. Covering up for her, I expect. But if you live down there, look out for a very opinionated old woman standing for election. And send her my regards.


And then, just to add insult to injury, everyone started buying & flying "abominations".

 

Even little Harry, for whom we had such high hopes, joined in with the foul perversity.


Still, never mind. These things are sent to try us.

Back to what we know - people lifting. Or, as "Brains" demonstrates from his posture, not so much "lifting" as desperately praying that the 9 metre Blade II won't get taken off in a sudden gust.

Our friends from Teston soon laid down on the job
But "Little Sister" soon got the idea of how to be flown.