{"id":5708,"date":"2013-12-25T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2013-12-26T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:42:29","slug":"sorely-tempted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/sorely-tempted\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorely tempted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Toddie’s passing just over a month ago, I’m home alone this Christmas for the first time that I can ever recall. I guess I could have returned to the UK to have spent the time with my family but I forgot to renew my passport in August and with Toddie passing when he did, it made it difficult to do so in the time available. So this is a bit of a new experience for me, but I’m not too disappointed as I was on the phone and Skyping with friends and family for most of the morning and I’ve got plenty to keep me busy today.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast for today was for light rain for the whole day, but although it rained overnight and there were a few spits early on, it stopped during the morning. While I was out bringing in some more wood for this evening, it was actually very mild and the sun decided at that moment to break through. I could then see Galinat quite clearly looking to the south-east from my front garden, as shown by the following pics, which were taken with the zoom lens.<\/p>\n

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I took the second pic from the field the other side of the road from my garden and from there it was even easier to pick out Galinat’s runway, windsock, the existing hangar and Regis’s Zenair parked outside his old hangar. When I saw the airfield in the distance with the sun shining on it, I was very sorely tempted to drop everything and get over there for a flight. However, I decided not to because there have been quite a few strong gusts of up to 25 mph that would have been at almost 90 degrees to the runway heading, so I decided that it wouldn’t be worth the possible risk on a day like today. I’m also sure that despite the prospects of a few unsettled days leading up to the end of the year, an opportunity will arise to get airborne even if it’s only for a comparatively brief flight.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime I’d like to wish my family and friends around the world, a joyful and peaceful Christmas and to especially thank them for their kindnesses and support over recent weeks. Normal service has now been resumed on My Trike but I’ll leave it there for now and go off to pour myself another glass of wine.<\/p>\n

Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Toddie’s passing just over a month ago, I’m home alone this Christmas for the first time that I can ever recall. I guess I could have returned to the UK to have spent the time with my family but I forgot to renew my passport in August and with Toddie passing when he did, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}