{"id":14682,"date":"2019-01-03T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2019-01-03T22:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:07:57","slug":"old-year-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/old-year-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Old year, new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are, in 2019. Having made the decision to defer the big work on my house for 12 months, I&#8217;m now allowing myself to think ahead to the pleasures that 2019 has to offer. We&#8217;re now in a spell of bright but cold weather which is much preferable to dull and wet as far as I&#8217;m concerned, but I&#8217;m not that much fussed about getting airborne again for the moment. If I get a couple of hours in this month that&#8217;ll be fine by me and then I&#8217;ll be happy to wait until I get back from my dose of winter sun in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said before, I didn&#8217;t fly as much as I&#8217;d expected to last year, only just over 23 hours in total, which was a bit disappointing. This was mainly due to the time it took for me to start feeling well enough again once my chemo finished and when I pushed things and tried to do too much too soon, with the result that I banged the Savannah&#8217;s wingtip on the ground while taxying, I got the message and eased off.<\/p>\n<p>But what I did do was great. Wim and I went to a fly-in together at Ste-Foy-la-Grande on September 16 in our Weedhoppers. I did a video but am re-editing it as I wasn&#8217;t happy with my initial finished product and will put the new version up later. However, I dropped into Ste-Foy the day before in 77ASY on what was a fantastic day for flying. I did a video of that too which says everything about why I fly, so that&#8217;s what I called it and I&#8217;ve linked it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why I fly\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10HH_x0KXFE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The final highlight of the year for me was the flight I did on December 28 with Dani, Wim&#8217;s young granddaughter. It was a cold and murky winter&#8217;s day but it gave me a great deal of pleasure as she enjoyed it so much. I did a video of it too and have linked to it also below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Back in the Air - Last Flight of 2018\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rnq7240NV5g?start=50&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve mentally freed myself from the onus of preparing myself for the work on my house, I&#8217;m allowing myself to make tentative flying plans for the rest of the year. I&#8217;m determined this year to fly to see new and old English contacts here in France over in the Charente so not that far away in the Savannah and I&#8217;m looking forward very much to doing so. I would also like to make a couple of trips to the UK to see family and friends, which I&#8217;ve not been  able to do for the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Prospects to savour, and I&#8217;ll bet that there&#8217;ll be many more pleasures to come that as yet I don&#8217;t have any inkling about. Bring it on, I say \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are, in 2019. Having made the decision to defer the big work on my house for 12 months, I&#8217;m now allowing myself to think ahead to the pleasures that 2019 has to offer. 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