Category: Life in General
Day-to-day life, nothing important or connected to something or somewhere specific.
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Sneaky flights at Taylor’s Mistake.
In overall “strange” weather conditions, I managed some airtime today, Most of my early morning was consumed by umming and ahing about the weather from home and if it is worth a trip to the hill. To tempt Murphy’s Law a little, I even contemplated doing the laundry, to…
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Trying to fly a different site today: Towers.
The emphases here is on “trying” unfortunately, We (<-paragliding community) normally fly the “Towers” site in a dying southwesterly wind, which is not often the case in Christchurch without having to deal with rain. The prediction was good-ish and it seemed like the actual conditions might follow the prediction,…
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The King’s Birthday.
It is a public holiday in NZ today called the “King’s Birthday”, It is not really his birthday, but like Wikipedia states: “The King’s Official Birthday is the selected day in most Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those countries. It does…
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Flying at Taylor’s Mistake and the Sunday “blues”.
The weather forecast was hopeful for an awesome day on the hill, Time to get up early and be ready, waiting on the hill in case it gets strong early on in the day. Clint and I managed to sneak in a couple of flights before the wind picked…