22nd October Hylands Park and 5th November Rivenhall Airfield

I checked the weather forecast which said rain was going to come and probably stay. Nether-the-less, I arranged to meet Simon at Hylands as I wanted to try my first creation on my sewing machine, a Halloween Cube, made from vinyl bags from Woolworth's that Courtney gave me last year. Halfway to Hylands and the rain started, but I carried on, hoping there would be a break later - Simon phoned and said he hadn't left as the rain had started at his house. I arrived at Hylands and when the rain eased I had just enough time to say "Hello-Goodbye" to Ernie, Vernon and Margaret, before giving up waiting for clear skies. I headed for Simon's where we made his "DHL" kite from tough polythene bags on his brand new Aldi sewing machine (mine is a Lidl one - both less than £45 - but good enough for the job). A good learning process.

This DHL square kite was responsible for cutting down Colin's compound Box kite at Rivenhall on the 5th November, due to me launching Colin's kite under Simon's Line !! Sorry Colin !!! My Halloween kite also debuted there, until it tried to take on Tony G's Tri-D ? Will get round to patching it up one day! Tony's fireworks cheered me up though! The wind was light at home, but gathered pace across the airfield, I had to put my waterproof top on to keep warm !! A lot of people were there that day, notably a group of us radio hams lifting wires and taking measurements till it was nearly dusk ;-)


Graham Leggett