Oh gosh darn it, I was wanting to post again there. Why was it removed? I was going to be all explaining about how nice we were (in the all-new, fluffy rots style).
Fantastic to see you cheg!!! I have no idea how many weeks you are though. Are they letting your try a vaginal delivery or are they getting you to a certain stage and cutting them out the front? Hospie sounds really horrid On the positive front I understand kidney infections to be more painful than labour...
pandie ooooh the uniform! Ashooly unlike cassie and iggs I'm a one-man girl although I do sometimes think it would have been nice to have had the experience...???
Sorry I made you paranoid me love. Um, are you linked to Igg, Cas, Ski or Cunty on FB? If so ask them to tell you who I am. If not we did work out a way of doing it via the butter dish - is that still available? If you want to, anyway. No pressure. I'll just be absolutely offended if you don't.
But seriously, only if you want to.
Did your OH do a tandem or static line? I did a paraglide once, many years ago, and didn't get proper training and stalled it at 10 feet. I had to be carried off the landing field I have done quite a lot of gliding, which is my favourite, and some power, including my best experiences - aerobatics in a YAK 52 which a friend owned, flying over Lake Niassa in Malawi/Mozambique (I don't even have a PPL, never mind a flying-over-water), and away from Nairobi last year over the Rift Valley with tiny zebra and giraffes running away below . I don't have any kind of license, and I've yet to even go solo even in a glider, but one day when I've got more time and cash I'll get back to it. But with what I have done, I always mention when going on a light aircraft in Africa that I have flown and so far they've always said, "hop on up and fly this one then"!!! . They've not let me land it yet though . I'm guessing that a microlight in the UK is going to be safer than even a commercial light aircraft in Africa! Everyone we know who lives there has lost someone to a random small plane crash
Last time, flying back out of the Rift Valley, there were two pilots so I didn't get a chance to fly. The co-p was training in bush flying and was in control, when the pilot took control with a very sudden, steep left turn, saying over the headphones, "we'll - er - just take a closer look at that river below". I gaped out to see what they were looking at - nothing interesting - as a sheer wall of rock came within a few 10s of feet from the right wing tip. Mr new-to-the-bush hadn't realised just how quickly them old valleys turn into not-valleys and we were pretty darned close to being a permanent fixture! Very exciting.
You should try gliding. It's fantastic. It's nearly very quiet but it's like the difference between, say, riding a horse you've got a really good connection with and driving a car, to compare it between power and non. It's so light and touchy - amazing. And really safe of course - I'd not want to deal with putting down a powered AC with an engine failure!
I learnt to fly because I was terrified of flying, and so insisted on learning the physics before I went up, then practising stalling immediately we got enough height. After that I was away.
I'm with you on the grabbing from below. Are we not all of the "Jaws" generation? The generation who knows it's NEVER safe to go back into the water?