2000 Words
What can I say….
A picture paints a thousand words…. so how about a couple of thousand?
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- the first thousand
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- the second thousand
Counting Chickens!
Grim, grey view of Varan launch from the Dentist waiting room
Steve, was hoping to do more flying this morning but alas it was pouring down first thing, and he had to leave by lunchtime so it just wasn’t going to happen. Meanwhile I had a dentist appointment, not my most favourite place to visit…. Well, I was early and was hanging around the waiting room for ages, whilst looking out of the window at a miserable grey day on Varan launch, I decided to take a photo with my phone.
Eventually after a civil cup of expresso! Yes, I was given some expresso whilst waiting! an apology ensued from my denstist explaining that there was some major surgery going on this morning, and that was the delay, and would it be ok to have five minutes rest?! As far as I’m concerned if someone is going to be poking around in my mouth with stainless steel implements they can rest for as long as needed, after all I don’t want any slips of the hand in that precarious position!
After the dentist a bit of shopping in Sallanches, and back home. It brightened up nicely and I took Tizzy for a walk and took a couple of phone photos along the way, these chickens were funny!
It’s in ‘ere somewhere! Wot you lost mate?!
phone, radio, vario, glove, camera, sunglasses?
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So today, my Kortel Kanibal Race harness has found a new home… I’ll be a bit sad to see it go, it’s such a comfortable harness, great lines and a good seat and angle, problem is, it’s just a bit too heavy for someone of my stature to carry around… I’m sure the new owner will be really chuffed, it’s virtually brand new!
As for the Kama Sutra, I’ve decided to keep hold of that one, take the pod off and enjoy using it as a ‘fun fly down’ and maybe fly a bit around, harness. As it’s a good, solid comfortable harness and will be easier to just buckle up after a day of launching people off the hill, when I am restricted and am not doing my own flying, as it’s still comfortable and if I manage to enjoy an extended flight it will be perfect for those occassions without getting fully togged up all the time.
We’ve got a bit of time, but the weather’s not looking great, so we may get out but then again… we may not?! 
Bargain Basement!
We’ve been having a bit of a rummage through some old stock and have put up a page of extra flying stuff, on the website. This is the Bargain Page, and this is the regular Shop page.
No flying today, it’s all a bit damp 
Internet Problems!
Am sorry to report that I’ve had to suspend the blog for a while due to dreadful internet connection problems! It’s been causing me no end of frustration… aaagh! 
so for the time being the updates may be a bit sporadic, if at all but I intend to resume normal service as soon as! Meanwhile the snow is fantastic!!! Every cloud eh?!
Let it Snow!
Just look how much snow there is on Plaine Joux launch now, and it’s still snowing… we may go for a plough through the snow tomorrow up there. It’s actually quite wet down here, but who knows maybe later in the week or beginning of next we’ll get a chance to do some skiing 
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Plaine Joux Launch... now!
And here’s the other side, a lot more than yesterday!
a lot more than yesterday...!
It’s Snowing, Yay!!!
Look at all this at Plaine Joux, and it’s still snowing! Time to polish up and sharpen those ski edges!! woo hoo!!!
taken from webcam, just a minute ago!
Ski Cruising 2010/11
We haven’t been doing much ploufing, just can’t seem to rustle up the enthusiasm. It’s been very cold recently and snuggling up by the fire is very appealing whilst we have some spare time. It’s not going to last for very long as the airport transfers are starting to accumulate. It looks like a weather change is on the way as snow is forecast. Thinking about snow, I’d taken a couple of helmet cam movies of last years skiing, so threw together a video. Just a taste or reminder of last seasons skiing to whet the appetite for the coming season.
Waiting for Winter
Not much to report just now… other than the weather has been flyable, so we’ve been out ‘ploufing’ most days, it’s set to continue along the same lines for a while yet, so more of the same seems to be the general concensus.
We’ve got regular frosted mornings, and early frozen vehicles the early signs of approaching winter… There’s been some snow on the Italian side of the mountain already and various light dustings around here but only short lived, it’s still incredibly mild in the afternoons.
Early Cloudscape
Not much to report, other than getting on with it. The new woodburner has arrived preparations are continuing for said applicance to take residence, hopefully
it will be up and running in a couple of days, especially as it’s getting darn cold at night, well for me it’s cold.
This morning we had some pretty impressive cloud formations, and here they are. Well it’s the same cloud really, just zoomed in a bit more on the second pic.
The sun brightened up the afternoon, although the cloud was disturbed for almost all of the day. The clouds did look heavily laden enough for rain, but that never materialised. Looks like it may well be flyable for the next couple of days.
Afternoon Play
Ben and me, (taking the pic!) on one of our mini glides
We’ve had a few nice autumnal days flying. The weather has been extremely sweet and agreeable. Dennis, was out working with Rozi, our client whilst I had other things to get on with before joining them later on in the afternoon.
Enjoyed a lovely afternoon’s flying and was playing around in the air with Dennis and Ben, there were a lot of non locals around today… don’t know where they’d come from but it was an exceptionally lovely aftrnoon. The inversion was present but weak, easy climbs, light puffy clouds and pleasing glides.
