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Just what do you people think that you are doing? Who give you the right to wind good people up like this? What do you all mean by going down to Marske, when other people better than your selves have their noses to the grindstone…… And doing all that flying kind of stuff… (What’s it like?)….. Doing ...

Some people think that this is a picture from the First World War, but, it was actually taken in Darras Hall, and shows people who having came to collect their cars back from Western Way garage for the likes of servicing and repairs found that their eyeballs were taken out when it became time to pay...

When I was just a little lad, my mother used to say: “Eat all your pie crust up and you will grow up to be a babe magnet” Well I didn’t eat all my pie crusts up, and just look what happened…. So …..What’s your excuse? Will this winter ever be over? I seem to have been embroidering since time began, ...

Another day, another dawn, another AGM….. “Move to DEFCON 3 …Mr Macittrick, confidence is high” How this year has flown….. While most of us haven’t. And every year around about this time I ask myself… Where is the club going too?.... Will we flop this year? Are the good times over?, Has the interest...

Yesterday wasn’t a good day for me….How about you? Why is it that other people get good flying and I get the dross? And doesn’t your self esteem take a dive when you come out at the bottom of the barrel at the end of what should have been a universally glorious flying day?… I just don’t know…. I gue...

I’ve got to admit it Brian, I thought that you were Canadian, Perhaps it was that red uniform, and the way that you sang Rose Marie, and always got your man…. Now I will have to file you under the stars and stripe folio…..more work…Humbody hum! Very nice to know you though….I love America, and every...

What a good day we had at Clough on Thursday. With a summer of little promise slip-sliding into autumn and good days few and far between, and a weekend of high winds coming up on the horizon, I can safely sit with this shawl around my shoulders again, the tin cup. Brim- filled once again with strong...

You never think, do you?.... That as you pull on your boots , of a Saturday morning, what life has in store for you that day?…. If my boots only just knew how high they were going to be before the day was ended….and how far they would eventually be from East Hill, lucky them, and the leather heaven ...

I may be wrong…….and when have I ever been right, some might say? But, somehow I can’t see the Shepherds becoming a major watering hole for us again, Time has moved on, expectations have established new parameters; the new bottom landing field by general consent has become the grass that surrounds A...

That’s it, another bank holiday over, and what did I get? Squat! Retrieve driver again, for two, one thermal wonders….{Not Chris Foz) Chris is a proper pilot! Rent a lackey, for the undeserved. Bus driver for the mentally retarded. Unpaid chauffer to pretendy pilots, not one of them fit to hold Wend...

Epic Flying for all, in the Freeman Hills…..Come and get it….Low level wave, High level wave, sea breeze fronts and backs, Convergence, Hill soaring, Cloud base, Big ears, Top landings, Bottom landings,…..Free to all comers…….. Hard to believe, Isn’t it?.....Yet it happened for us yesterday….Maybe R...

Another weekend over, and all present and accounted for, everyone answering to the last roll call….. Two back from France and returned to the ration list Ring the bell, Close the book, Quench the candle…. You can’t blame me for worrying about when the next accident/incident is going to raise its ugl...

Nice one Ronnie....My opinion of you has never altered..... You are the Man...... Expecting more action than words off you this year though. Those people who think that there is no good flying to be had in the Freeman's are wrong....and Monylaws is a gem of a hill for leaving, with lots of lovely hi...

I know that you all know which way up a paraglider goes, and hang-gliders do it pointy end first… But my problems are not so mundane, and I wonder if anyone can help me to put together the bits that appear in the photo below….. It is the front offside olio leg of a series two Time Machine…serial num...

I don’t feel like writing much….but JW tells me that my day in the Freeman Hills needs to be brought into public view…..I suppose I can write first and then hang myself later so here’s the sordid story…… What prodigal did next sort of…. I convinced Brian…our much loved chairman, to listen to his eld...

That’s the door closed firmly on last year then….Good riddance… I might be able to get some flights into the xc league now. Out with the unwanted old and in with good hope for the new. Tuesday put the last of the icing on the cake for me, a very forgettable hump up through the frozen haw, and slippy...

I was just about to blow the candles out last night, quite ready for bed, and looking forward to getting away from all this deep Yuletide shit, in true Miss Haversham fashion, with me nightie around my ankles, Look at the muck on this wedding dress! And then I read about Brian and Gary’s flight on S...

Ever since my very good chum, John Wallis put the Cumbrian Connection on the board I have had a mind to tell you about my very own Cumbrian Connection, which goes back such a long time, Perhaps even before your dad met your mum…. tripping over his flared trousers just to look up her mini-skirt….. Th...

How many flying members does this club have?.....Forty….Fifty? they can’t all of had a bad year, or am I wrong?....Please tell me what kind of year you have had….I promise to listen to you, providing that I can also listen to my I pod at the same time. For me, the year has been an unmitigated disast...

There was a programme on the telly sometime back; I can’t quite remember what it was called….Tony Robinson….The worlds worst jobs…Know the one? Let me tell you the world’s worst job, if you’ve been there yourself then you will know exactly what I’m on about. THE RETRIEVE DRIVER. Surely it would be b...

Was there ever another little beaver like you John? Working from dawn to dusk for the betterment of the NHPC.... Well done you.... And more than welcome to those Cumbrian club members who visit our website (said the spider to the fly.).... We have already annexed the North York sites from the retard...

Thats a bit harsh Stevie! The poor lad is just trying to come back into contact with the ordinary people once again, be kind to him...He's all we've got. Welcome back to the real world Alastair. Beware of the next knock on the door Stevie....It might be the Oxygen police.....coming around to arrest ...

The Bin men Come around every Monday , could be the chance to get rid of some of the surplus flying gear I’ve got lying about….Like one, no make that two Laminar topless’s, one Airwave sport 3….and matching handbags. I’ve forgotten what to do with them. Somebody said you’re supposed to strap them to...

Nice day at Cross Fell? I think not! Doing long cross country’s and leaving grown men weeping on mute hills doesn’t smack much like “Nice” from my point of view……and while we’re at it, Having your Groupie …Rutherford con me into accepting that lucky sheep’s bone just before I took off, guaranteeing ...

Pleased to see that everybody enjoyed themselves at the Model Ridge on Sunday…. Winners and losers, comes across to me, listening to what people say…. But isn’t every flying day just like this? You could have done better, but somebody else drew out the winning ticket…. Let not your heart be troubled...

Well, it seems a long time gone since I last wrote to the board…I always tended to think that if you had something to say, then the board was the place to say it….. How wrong can you be? Nobody seems to be saying anything of interest, only reacting to what was said before…kindly step aside then and ...

Really enjoyed the little talk by Gary W, on Wednesday. If you weren’t there for some obscure reason then you missed a treat, even the paraglider pilots, and there were a lot of them there, where carried away with the excitement of the unfolding battle of the slippy wings, and their eventual arrival...

I'm a little confused here...What is the subject matter...Robbie Burns or the 5020?.... Did Robbie Burns even have a 5020....? He wrote some canny poetry though; Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon, How can you blume sae fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care? Thou'll break my hea...

Ko Lee noodles....Hot and spicy....Way to go!

The early Podlight harnesses suffered bamboo fatigue, if the cross bracing was left in the charcoal for too long...but don't let this worry you too much, providing that you can still hitch your trousers up through the latex while doing the Gay Gordons in it, you should be okay!