@FeliciaArbuthnot Two things to do with flying and grabbing cloud, and fruit tea.
To those who are disappointed by fruit tea, and who bought a whole packet which you're not going to use, here is something you can do to cheer you up: it is possible to make the teabags fly, like little hot air balloons. Somebody recently demonstrated this to me; but be careful if you do it in front of the children, because they might try to play with fire! This only works with cylindrical tea bags, like those used for fruit tea: the pyramid or round ones are no good for this trick.
- Cut one edge off the tea bag, empty out the tea, and remove the string and tag.
- Unroll the tea bag into a cylinder, and stand it upright.
- Set fire to the top of the tea bag. It burns in a few seconds, and with a bit of luck, takes off into the air, sometimes going up about one metre. This is because the air inside the cylinder is heated, so it rises like a hot air balloon.
It might take a few disappointing attempts to make it work, but when it does, it's amazing.
And speaking of flying, my parents had a magic trick to make me fly, which I loved because it really felt like flying; I could feel the clouds as well. They'd make sure I was blindfolded, lead me to a chair in the garden, lift it up, and tell me I was flying high above the garden, describing the scenery below. They'd get me to reach out a hand and feel the clouds, and I'd feel the sky on my head; and after I'd been brought down to earth, I'd see that I was in a different part of the garden from where I thought I'd started. Because I couldn't see a thing, I believed I was flying; inevitably, I later realised that it wasn't real, and the "clouds" I was feeling was a feather duster; and also that they couldn't do it any more when I grew too big. I was even more disappointed to learn that they only lifted me up a few inches, and that I didn't fly from one end of the garden to the other: they moved the chair before putting me in it!