Been a little while since I last updated here. To be fair I'm not sure I have much to tell that warrants writing about, though it's always nice to hear how people are doing. In any case I do enjoy looking at the artwork that fills my inbox occasionally even if I don't get around to publicly commenting on it! If I like your work there's only so many ways I can gush about a new upload before the artist becomes a bit weary of the same comments over and over I'm sure hahah.

Around about two weeks ago I went to Southend-On-Sea for the 'Festival Of The Air '09' (considering I wasn't drinking beer from plastic cups and sitting on hay bales, bit of a misleading title really lol!) which was very cool indeed, and the most perfect weather for the beachfront - burning hot and not a cloud in the sky all day, brilliant! Unfortunately as my mind wandered at the thought of ice cream I did end up chargrilling myself slightly - but no matter, as I got to see planes draw hearts in the sky lol! [link] (10mb) And who can say fairer than that?

Just a little under a week ago I swapped staying on the ground for a bit of hands-on flying myself, I got a pass to fly a light aircraft on my birthday but I was waiting until the weather was good to give it a try. Cracking day I eventually went on - again, clear sky and burning hot sun! Couldn't have asked for better really and since I've never flown before the least I could hope for was some good weather. Thankfully it was, and my instructor was terribly kind and humourous to such a novice pilot as myself lol! It doesn't seem to be too difficult, but I have a lot to learn. Rather a baptism of fire on my part since I had and have not much clue with the workings of the plane I was flying hahah. But I'm still here, so I can't have done too badly! Me plane - [link]
I couldn't begin to describe how much fun it was, now I am hoping to study it further and train for a Private Pilot's License.

I think that is about all I can report as of late, also in a few days me and a dear friend of mine are going to Switzerland for a couple of weeks, so very excited & looking forward to that too. Good times!

Hope all is well for everyone else, until next time

- Josie