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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 22:12:25 GMT
There is a HUGE difference between WORK and having a JOB, matey!
I have worked hard all week (well M,tu,Wed) and accomplished a weeks work in three days by putting in long hours.....not really, camping V work, camping wins.
Update from the Ponds.....Biggest turnout to date....tommorow will see the BIGGEST display of kites in the Sky's of SUSSEX (east and west) including a team kite spectacular!!
If you didn't come, at least watch this space for the latest PHOTOGRAPHS coming soon to see what YOU missed!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2009 6:32:42 GMT
Good weekend? It sure had all the ingredients and was my idea of a weekend, Thursday to Monday….making my working week a three day week! Sunshine, wind, Stars, Kites and YOU lot!! Thank you to every one who came, and hopefully gleaned out of the event what they came for, not every one feels like flying kites continuously!
Almost sounds like I am going soft? Heck no…all you non kite flyers get some kites up! ;D
Thanks for making the effort to come, it’s quite a mission to get away for a camping week end and only us campers that appreciate how involved it is, unlike last weekend it ran as smooth as silk, no ‘bitching’ and every one got on.
Almost sounds like I am going soft? Heck no…Damon your pegged out unstable, unattended, kites were all over the place…just like your new Gomberg lifter was at Basingstoke! ;D
Not the biggest turnout as I anticipated, a case of ‘counting your chickens…’ as some regulars were scared off? Somewhat compensated by new faces however who look like they may be future regulars! Also not the 'biggest display of kites' as the wind was lumpy coming down the hill over trees, and no 'team kite spectacular' as one team member never showed, quite important in a two man team! Again this was offset by the 'two kites. one man' displays put on by Damon. Would everyone please tell him its crap, cos he is getting rather good but if we said that he would become ubearably smug. [/b] STOLEN from Mankybadgers blog...12 September 2009 (Saturday) - Sumners Ponds
This morning was my Saturday morning to work. So I got that over and done with as quickly as possible, and then home. A quick cheese roll, and then off to deepest Sussex.
For some time a group of friends have periodically been camping at Sumners Ponds, and for some time I’ve been meaning to go see the place. It took about an hour and a bit to get there, and it would be tricky to find without scrat-nav, but it was worth the journey. We arrived to find Colin flying a sea horse. An impressively huge sea horse. It turned out that he’d ordered a five metre kite, and the people who made it sent a 10 metre one by mistake. We then wandered over to exchange insults with Dave who hadn’t spotted us, and then we spent the afternoon just relaxing with friends, flying kites, strolling around, and generally slobbing about.
Having heard so much about Sumners Ponds over the last year, my mission for the day was to “case the joint” with a view to camping there in the future. With a field to ourselves (away from the normal people), a toilet on site, and a café and shower block just a short stroll down the lane, Sumners Ponds is the ideal camping venue. It’s also got all sorts of footpaths going here and there which would be ideal for walks, and the ponds would seem to be excellent for fishing – I saw some rather large carp being landed.
We arrived about 2.30pm, and the idea was to stay until 5-ish. At 6pm I went to Tescos with Dave for some beer. Having had three separate offers to join people for tea, we stayed for the communal barbecue, and seriously considered the offer of staying in the spare caravan overnight.
As we came home shortly after 9pm, I found myself reflecting on camping in general. Each year we have four camping trips. We go from Friday to Monday, because with so much luggage, it’s not worth the effort for one night. But the luggage is mostly the cooking tent and all that goes with it. With a café on site for brekky and the communal barby on a Saturday night, we don’t need a cooking tent. We’d need a tent to sleep in, sleeping bags, and a change of undercrackers. There’s an off-licence just down the road which sells local beers - going for one night would be easy.
Three of my annual camping trips are to kite festivals. And the bits I like most are the Fridays and the evenings - the times when the “normal people” aren’t there. And Bat-Camp is great because being on private land, there’s no “normal people” anyway. At Sumner’s Ponds we’d have a field where it’s just the kiting people. No normal people in the way.
I’ve asked Colin for the dates of the next weekend at Sumners Ponds. I shall be there….
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mankybadger
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Post by mankybadger on Sept 15, 2009 7:16:25 GMT
STOLEN from Mankybadgers blog... Oi !!!!! I saw that..... ;D
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