Ghosts, Wine, Tigermoths and the return of the Trophy

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!!

Don't call it a 'comeback'...

So yeah...the doc gave me the all clear with my brain cyst.
In summary if I can live with it and it ain't causing me day to day hassle - we'll leave where it is. The cyst is currently over the part of my brain that deals with balance, so that explains the vertigo.
Guess that means I have to cancel the high wire act I was going to start up.

But I am good to resume mischief and mayhem!!

Fish Magic, an allclear and X-Men

So an update on the Brain Thing; I had my MRI today which was not nearly as freaky as I had thought. I lay on a slab, got pushed part way into a tube and was bombarded my magnetic pings for a bout 15 minutes. I fell asleep halfway through.
Tomorrow I pick up my results and its back to the GP for a follow up. I figure if was really serious they would have wisked me a way there and then.
So looking good all in all!!
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Last Sunrday was one of those fishing days where the fish are using their magic to fuck you up... ('cause they do have magic, I seen it. Yup!) I swapped rods before heading off, usually a bad sign, this had a lighter line for better casting and sensitivity. The problem with a lighter line is it does not work too well with a strong crosswind. I lost 2 hooks and a foot or so of line before I even got to cast in! All the while the temperature is dropping, my beer force field is waning and the darn hands are freezing up!!
Didn't win the trophy and the fish I did hook was a really good un, but me reel was busted and the drag didn't kick in... the fish shook the hook out!!!
Boy, I tell you whut... if I didn't love it - I'd wanna know why I was doing it.
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My review of X-Men 3
Have you seen Men in Black? Do you recall those memory wiping devices? If they could do that, give me my money back and replace my memory with a good fishing trip... I'd call it even.

It was shite, shite in all its possible glory and variations. It was Highlander 2 bad. It was Daredevil quality. It was up there with the worst and still I wanted to see it. I should never watch movie trailers, or perhaps the people that make the movie trailers should swap with the people who make the movies. I don't know... but it did suck arse.
How the hell did they get financing?? How the hell did they convince so many people to come back for the third film??

Time for the healing to begin I think, at least we've got superman to look forward to....