What Ho Chaps!! Chocks Away!! Tally Ho!!
Sorry got a bit carried away there... Last Sunday I went up-ditty-up in a flying machine (a scracth built Dehavilland Tigermoth) and did FREAKY CRAZY SHIT 800m off the deck.
This is a photo of me just before the flight.
I'm sitting in the forward compartment (the flight stick was deactivated). It was fantastic I have to tell you. My brother in law Pinot was in the other Tigermoth and together we went up in formation. If you get the chance to fly in one of these planes I recommend you take it!!
For starts we took off on a grass strip, by my calculation it only needed about 100m's and we were away. It was loud, it was cold, it was awesome!!!
We did s-turns, loop the loops, barrell rolls and stall turns. We would go first and then Pinot and his pilot would follow. Just fantastic, what a great birthday present!!
But don't let me forget the night before we drove up to Camden (just outside Sydney) and had dinner with my parents and Vicki and Pinot at an old vineyard called Gladesbrook. The idea was we could try some of their wine before dinner, have a dinner and then go on a GHOST TOUR. The wine was pretty good, I can recommend their Whites, the dinner was nice 3 courses of good honest anglo food ("I want the blandest thing on the menu...") but the highlight of dinner was the live music by a very nice guy and his guitar. He sang some John Denver (which Dad and Karin loved) but I won't hold that against him.
So let me tell you about the GHOST TOUR , first of all let me say it wasn't Old Man Stewart trying to keep those darn kids away ('cause I know thats what your thinking...) The vineyard was the first settled homestead south of the original Sydney colony. So its been there for about 200 years, proir to that there was a healthy population of Aboriginies. Today there are no local indigenous people - so you can work out how that relationship went. But the $10 question, did I see a ghost................................................... Well no, but I did see Bogans - they were every where, some of them didn't even know they were Bogans.
So I had a great weekend and to top it all off, I went fishing on Sunday arvo with Graham and won The Trophy!!!!!!
What a fantastic weekend!!
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