It's windy where I am and it got me thinking about kites.
I remember plastic kites shaped like eagles and of course the classic kite shaped ones, but to be honest, kites were incidental in my childhood. Tested on occasion on holiday beaches and often failing watching the things writhe on the wet sand.
I used to buy any TV related kites I found in packets at boot sales. A-Team and Thundercats spring to mind, which I sold on. Not really kite flying though.
A few years back we visited a local kite festival on a hill in Heath and I have to admit it was spectacular. It helped that the people knew what they were doing! Huge Dragons, birds, shapes, streamers, - it revealed a whole new exciting world of kiting.
Have you flown kites readers? Where? Are you still keen on kites? Is Autumn the best time?
Kites! I had a major kite phase in the 1970s, when I worked at that educational toy store. We carried those spacey Gayla delta-wing plastic kites, but also had a rack of the old wooden Hi-Flier classics, and I flew them both, with very, very long cloth tails. On a good breezy day, I'd let the kites fly way, way out into the distance, and then let them go! A certain sense of freedom involved in kite-flying... SFZ
ReplyDeleteI love how you let them goSF. I wonder where they ended up?
DeleteMy favourite kite was a Dunford Flying Machine. I think I was designed by an ex raf man. Similar era to the Peter Powell stunt kite. Will O
ReplyDeleteSounds fab Will. Professional.
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