New Year...New outlook?

[MadDog]

I was just about to blow the candles out last night, quite ready for bed, and looking forward to getting away from all this deep Yuletide shit, in true Miss Haversham fashion, with me nightie around my ankles,
Look at the muck on this wedding dress!
And then I read about Brian and Gary’s flight on Saturday….I nearly choked on the Ovaltine…..What did they know that I didn’t know?
I never ever thought that Saturday was ever going to be flyable…..
Wrong again…..
Well done both of you…..now I ask you;
Can you beat these canny lads from the coast?
And isn’t this the way to do things in the winter?
Turn out, no matter that the forecast is iffy.
If you can’t fly it…..walk it.
Throw caution to the wind….go for it…and while you’re going for it, grit your teeth together and push the boundaries at the same time.
All of these things happened to those heroes yesterday….
I wish I had of been there!
I wish I was a proper person,
I wish I had DNA
I sometimes wonder if I’m only an old has been, living life out on the flights of others, or just biding my time until my turn-around comes around again….
But, what goes around comes around….
After all, now I think of it, Me ,Wallis, and Gordon Proudlock done the very same thing years ago….taking off at the radar masts late one evening, and landing by the sheep pens with what was left of the evening sun fast disappearing behind the balls of Great Dun Fell….
Hangliding of course….Perhaps I can dig the picture out!
So perhaps there is still some hope for the hungry then….roll on Tuesday, start the Xmas holidays early, let’s see if we can expand the frontiers for a change, instead of cowering at the back of the queue..
Strap it on me……
Stand clear of the doors!

[brian day]

Is that a teapot with a porn tash??
The very one that said on Saturday morning 'You'll never fly today'
To which the reply came
'We're going to take off at the radar masts in 10 minutes and fly down the ridge'
'Rubbish, If you get 10k I'll give you £100'
12.7k!!!!!!,,,,damn that landing after 3.5k,,, would have been a nice early Christmas present!

[John Wallis]

Bloody hell 1989 on the photo 20 years ago doesn't time "Fly" when you're enjoying yersell. Brian I think I was pointing where the rotor was and telling Miller to take off first so I could see what happened to him

As for yesterday got to say I was surprised as it was howling over here. Never the less I probably would have had a run over myself but for the woodpecker in my head caused by a full bodied 14.5 Shiraz

Nice flight down to the old Sheep pens.

[gary stenhouse]

hey john have you been having plastic surgery botox and gresion 2000 as you dont look any diferrent now. well not every day you get a compliment off john so could this be john about to give some of his wisdom away.

lets hope tommorow can come up with the goods

cheers gary

[John Wallis]

Red wine is the secret Gary!! It makes ya hair black ya tash red and ya heed sore

[John Wallis]

Mad Dogs other surprise maybe his 50th?? It was at the Old Assembly Rooms NHGC Christmas party.

[RonDon]

By the Hang-gliders certainly have Boony lades

[Brian Nellist]

Judging by the photo Mad dog's name should be Jack the lad or the stud
you old scoundrel.Is there still life in the Dog?