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[beach]

So as I get ready to be a guest of our English friends my mind wonders back to my last visit there with
iQuad and all the fun we had, I must admit I'm a bit stressed as my ankle is far from okay but I'm still
ready for some fun with the Dec's and Flying Squad and all the rest of the Family who make Portsmouth
and Bristol there flying fields..... So get ready all Ben and Dr. Moody are headed your way..... Ben

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[Jynx]

Ben ~ Mom says "Take 'er easy on that ankle... You've been too busy playing and awful hard on that thing!" ...I don't want to have to say "I told ya so!"

Try taking care of yourself FIRST for a change!!!!!!!!!


Mom, Over and Out!

[RevWizard]

Have a great time, don't do anything I wouldn't do and give them all my greetings.

[Felix Mottram]

So as I get ready to be a guest of our English friends my mind wonders back to my last visit there with
iQuad and all the fun we had, I must admit I'm a bit stressed as my ankle is far from okay but I'm still
ready for some fun with the Dec's and Flying Squad and all the rest of the Family who make Portsmouth
and Bristol there flying fields..... So get ready all Ben and Dr. Moody are headed your way..... Ben

See you soon Ben. We have fliers from Holland, France, Spain and Scotland attending as well! (There maybe a Welsh contingent?)

Felix

[Ant-]

Hey Ben - hope to see you - on my home soil this time

Ant

[monkey]

See you soon Ben. We have fliers from Holland, France, Spain and Scotland attending as well! (There maybe a Welsh contingent?)

Felix

I'm curious. how do they spell Revolution in Welsh?

Have a great time, I wish I could pop over too!

[Felix Mottram]

I'm curious. how do they spell Revolution in Welsh?
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Chwyldro

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[Stone in Shoe Bob]

See you soon Ben. We have fliers from Holland, France, Spain and Scotland attending as well! (There maybe a Welsh contingent?)

There will be, check out #16.

[Felix Mottram]

There will be, check out #16.

Exactly...

My school years were spent in Cardiff so I have connections!

Felix

[dazlarsen]

Safe journey Ben,catch up with you on the flying field at the weekend


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Daz

[Vince]

Safe journey Ben. See you at Portsmouth.

Regarding the attached photo at the top of the post. Is that a UFO on the hillside, also I think I would just stick with conventional rev handles............

[Felix Mottram]

Ben's toys on show there I think...

[katrina]

Ben ~ Mom says "Take 'er easy on that ankle... You've been too busy playing and awful hard on that thing!" ...I don't want to have to say "I told ya so!"

Try taking care of yourself FIRST for a change!!!!!!!!!


Mom, Over and Out!

What she said! Take care Ben!!! UK people, you know no one can tell Ben what to do, but please do what you can to keep him from overdoing it. His ankle got a lot worse at Long Beach last week--there was a hole in the sand, not good. Find him a chair to fly from!

[Jonesey]

Was a hard day !!

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[katrina]

Was a hard day !!

What did you do, sedate him????

[monkey]

What did you do, sedate him????

I'm thinking he's chained to that chair.

[Jynx]

...Take care Ben!!! UK people, you know no one can tell Ben what to do, but please do what you can to keep him from overdoing it. His ankle got a lot worse at Long Beach last week--there was a hole in the sand, not good. Find him a chair to fly from!

What she said!

[stroke survivor]

What did you do, sedate him????

Probably slipped something in his coffee!!!

[Sailor99]

It was a delight to see the big man again although I was saddened that he is still in pain. In the photo Ben is enjoying an unusual bit of sunshine in the company of two of the Strip Lynchets, Sanja and myself.

During the festival we all stay at a place called Rees Hall which during term time is student accommodation. The breakfasts are good, but the beds are appallingly uncomfortable! So as I lay there at 0300 this morning, with a spring sticking in my back, I was thinking. It's a big old world and as we sit here on opposite sides of the Atlantic separated by a common language. I think we sometimes concentrate on our differences rather than the common ground, or at least I do; not least of late Chinese kites. It seems there are different points of view that are so opposed I suspect we will struggle to find agreement and closure. It's no secret that Ben and my view is not the same, and I was expecting him to pick an argument with me at some point over the weekend. So I was totally disarmed and touched when he gave me a lovely set of custom handles, which are on the sofa besides me now. I wonder if we would be better off concentrating on the common ground: We all love flying kites in good company, and that we should therefore respect and be bigger than our differing points of view? No arguing, no bullying, no rubbing it in, just kite flying? I like to think that was what Mr Dantonio was trying to make me understand with his gift.

We did a bit of a megafly. No record was set (there were 30 or 40 flyers, I didn't count) but IMHO the coordination was the best I have had the honour of taking part in. It all seemed to gel , not least thanks to the leadership of the callers. We had Scottish, Spanish, French, English and probably other nationalities of flyers taking part - again I wasn't noting the nationalities down as it didn't seem to matter. I wonder if any American or Canadian flyers maybe able to join us again next year...........

[Jynx]

.....I think we sometimes concentrate on our differences rather than the common ground, or at least I do; not least of late Chinese kites. It seems there are different points of view that are so opposed I suspect we will struggle to find agreement and closure. It's no secret that Ben and my view is not the same, and I was expecting him to pick an argument with me at some point over the weekend. So I was totally disarmed and touched when he gave me a lovely set of custom handles, which are on the sofa besides me now. I wonder if we would be better off concentrating on the common ground: We all love flying kites in good company, and that we should therefore respect and be bigger than our differing points of view? No arguing, no bullying, no rubbing it in, just kite flying? I like to think that was what Mr Dantonio was trying to make me understand with his gift.....

So well put! So true!

Thanks for the sweet words of wisdom! ...You, now and always have, impressed me! Just wish you lived on this side of the pond ~ Hopefully I'll get to your side someday!