We’ve had some awful cold, wet, windy weather since my last posting which is no fun believe me when you have to walk a very active dog three or four times a day and every time he comes back soaking wet and plastered with mud and muck. But we’ve managed to get through it while still retaining (most) of our sense of humour and last night I enjoyed the pleasure of seeing in the New Year with a few friends over a nice meal, a few glasses of wine and some lively conversation.<\/p>\n
2009 was not without its sadnesses. A very old friend went on holiday to Spain almost exactly a year ago with his wife and a couple of friends and unfortunately never returned. He’s greatly missed by all of us and will always be so. And in November I attended the funeral of my father-in-law. In some respects I was lucky that I was only touched twice by such events in 2009 because several of my friends have told me that they lost a number of people who they were close to during the year.<\/p>\n
But on the brighter side, my mother who was 90 this year moved down to live with my sister and her husband and when I visited her on Monday last for the first time since her move she was looking really bright and well, so that’s a blessing. Also, although none of us knows for sure how much longer the effects of the credit crunch and the recession will last, I’m fortunate in that my own business seems to have weathered the worst of the storm fairly well and I have some interesting new developments coming along in the pipeline which I hope will make additional new contributions in 2010, one of which I’ll be sharing here in due course as it’s microlight related.<\/p>\n
But the main issue for 2010 will, of course, be MYRO. I still need to find somewhere to keep and fly MYRO from and this will become more pressing once the weather begins to improve. I’ll shortly be tackling my friend again about whether I’ll be able to put MYRO onto his property in Kent and that would be my preferred choice even though the landing and take off distances are all a bit short. But even if I couldn’t keep MYRO there for the long term, it would be a good place to finish the final assembly and get the wings back on so it’s ready for Permitting. Someone mentioned a couple of possible locations in Essex a few weeks ago and I think I’ll follow those up too. The only thing is that if I had to go that route, the expense involved could mean I’d have to sell one or more shares in MYRO off which I’d prefer not to do if I could avoid it. But we’ll have to see.<\/p>\n
I’m typing this looking out at a day that’s cold with a clear blue sky and with a light sprinkling of powdery snow on the ground from last night. So as usual we come back to the weather. 2009 was another generally poor year for microlight flying although from the comments made by a few on the BMAA forums, some pilots still managed to get quite a few hours in. I hope that today is a harbinger of things to come weather-wise in 2010 and that we can look forward to many more days without rain, low cloud and high winds than we enjoyed in 2009.<\/p>\n
So on that note here’s wishing everyone a happy, safe and peaceful 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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