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johnandjade

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I love flying.


the airport is only 15mins walk away from me, its not fair watching them! add to that my work is in area as well so I'm constantly seein people going away but never me :( ... always the bridesmaid never the bride lol.

read that if you live in a flight path you are something like 20% more likely to have heart failure, add to that i was born with a murmur, wanna take bets? ;)
 

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the airport is only 15mins walk away from me, its not fair watching them! add to that my work is in area as well so I'm constantly seein people going away but never me :( ... always the bridesmaid never the bride lol.

read that if you live in a flight path you are something like 20% more likely to have heart failure, add to that i was born with a murmur, wanna take bets? ;)
Gosh no!
Don't forget 78.6 % of statistics are made up on the spot.
 

Lyn W

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the airport is only 15mins walk away from me, its not fair watching them! add to that my work is in area as well so I'm constantly seein people going away but never me :( ... always the bridesmaid never the bride lol.

read that if you live in a flight path you are something like 20% more likely to have heart failure, add to that i was born with a murmur, wanna take bets? ;)
Evening all (she says in her best PC Plod voice flexing her knees).
I wish I loved near the airport - I am not going to be able to go to my friends funeral tomorrow because
a) no transport to airport and
b) no one to have my sisters dog for a couple of nights, not even kennels but that would have been a last resort she would have been so upset!
So I'm stuck! It is a shame I would like to have gone to pay my last respects.
I will have to try to go up to see his wife when my car is working and the dogs gone back.
I love Lola to bits but life is so much easier for popping off somewhere without animals to sort out.
 

Lyn W

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I love flying.
Have you ever been up in a hot air balloon?
That is absolutely wonderful!
Landing can be a bit tricky but floating silently through the sky is amazing.
OK - you do get the sound of the burner being operated occasionally but that is something of a necessity.
I've done it twice.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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Evening all (she says in her best PC Plod voice flexing her knees).
I wish I loved near the airport - I am not going to be able to go to my friends funeral tomorrow because
a) no transport to airport and
b) no one to have my sisters dog for a couple of nights, not even kennels but that would have been a last resort she would have been so upset!
So I'm stuck! It is a shame I would like to have gone to pay my last respects.
I will have to try to go up to see his wife when my car is working and the dogs gone back.
I love Lola to bits but life is so much easier for popping off somewhere without animals to sort out.
Yep, but that's the price we pay.
It's worth it, i actually worry about Tidgy whenever i'm away, even if wifey's still at home.
( I worry about wifey, too).
So sorry you couldn't say goodbye to your friend.
I hate cars.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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Have you ever been up in a hot air balloon?
That is absolutely wonderful!
Landing can be a bit tricky but floating silently through the sky is amazing.
OK - you do get the sound of the burner being operated occasionally but that is something of a necessity.
I've done it twice.
Actually, I haven't.
I'm just about to start official flying lessons for a helicopter, Iv'e already taken the controls a few times, it's so good.
I've been in the cockpit of planes many times, before 9/11 and i've done bungee jumping and hang gliding.
But not a hot air balloon yet, though I visited the fiesta in Bristol many times.
One day.......
 

johnandjade

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Evening all (she says in her best PC Plod voice flexing her knees).
I wish I loved near the airport - I am not going to be able to go to my friends funeral tomorrow because
a) no transport to airport and
b) no one to have my sisters dog for a couple of nights, not even kennels but that would have been a last resort she would have been so upset!
So I'm stuck! It is a shame I would like to have gone to pay my last respects.
I will have to try to go up to see his wife when my car is working and the dogs gone back.
I love Lola to bits but life is so much easier for popping off somewhere without animals to sort out.


allo allo allo' .. what av' we got here then? lol. sorry your not going to make the funeral:( no joy with the battery then?
 

johnandjade

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Actually, I haven't.
I'm just about to start official flying lessons for a helicopter, Iv'e already taken the controls a few times, it's so good.
I've been in the cockpit of planes many times, before 9/11 and i've done bungee jumping and hang gliding.
But not a hot air balloon yet, though I visited the fiesta in Bristol many times.
One day.......


i done a bungee jump, got home at 5am after partying all night and jumped at 11am ! what a laugh it was... windy day so i was at top waiting to jump for 5mins lol
 

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Yep, but that's the price we pay.
It's worth it, i actually worry about Tidgy whenever i'm away, even if wifey's still at home.
( I worry about wifey, too).
So sorry you couldn't say goodbye to your friend.
I hate cars.
I will have to try to remember a favourite place of his so that I can go there and think about him at the time of his service.
Thing is we usually used to meet up in a pub!
Not very condusive to reflective thought - unless your drunk and maudlin but he was never that!
 

Lyn W

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Actually, I haven't.
I'm just about to start official flying lessons for a helicopter, Iv'e already taken the controls a few times, it's so good.
I've been in the cockpit of planes many times, before 9/11 and i've done bungee jumping and hang gliding.
But not a hot air balloon yet, though I visited the fiesta in Bristol many times.
One day.......
I like helicopters too I flew over Soweto in one when I went to S Africa - some other prettier places too.
 

johnandjade

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I will have to try to remember a favourite place of his so that I can go there and think about him at the time of his service.
Thing is we usually used to meet up in a pub!
Not very condusive to reflective thought - unless your drunk and maudlin but he was never that!


he'll be there in spirt ;). saying goodbye in your own way means more in my book, remember the happy times :)
 
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