lleiafee did we ever have a winter over here? we had a spring,summer autumn missed out winter and went straight to spring again
Hmm, I think the three days I spent stranded with aeroplane on the Isle of Wight because I decided to employ the better part of valour and turn back from some nasty weather counted as my "winter blues" ;-)
It was drop down gorgeous up there today though. Windsock looked like it'd been nailed to the post, flat calm, high clouds just the right size and spacing for amusing myself dodging and diving and ducking between them. Got up so high that air/ground practically laughed at me when I told them where I was. Watched fast jets with cool fierce-sounding call signs way down underneath me on their way to the practice range (the reason a/g had asked after me), then went down low instead and bimbled about looking at the castles and ironage earthworks that surround our little airport. Trailed along the coast where the downland sweeps up frot he sea and frightened a paraglider about to launch himself at me. Wagged my wings at him in apology and cleared off out of his way, dawdled over the saltmarshes, peered at the progress on the ne runway at the next airfield over, did a PFL at a handy sandbank, then wandered home to sit on the wing and watch the sun go down.
Can't ask for much more from a spring afternoon really.
