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03 Aug 14
09:30
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No - actual ballooning!
Lifetime ambition to be fulfilled today, as we're treating my elderly parents to a balloon flight (Mum's birthday treat). Weather's looking promising for a 6PM launch - can't wait.
Anyone else been up in one?
Lifetime ambition to be fulfilled today, as we're treating my elderly parents to a balloon flight (Mum's birthday treat). Weather's looking promising for a 6PM launch - can't wait.
Anyone else been up in one?
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The thing you will find strange is that in the basket there is no wind!
It's a fantastic experience, and I was lucky that a client is in the business, and returned a favour...  |
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Great stuff Stevie.
I've always fancied going up in a balloon but haven't done so - yet. Have a cracking time and give us the lowdown when you get back. |
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Yep. Brilliant experience . Enjoy ! ( can be a bit bumpy when landing !)
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I asked about ballooning in Cumbria about 20 years ago.
Iirc I was quoted £100 for an hour. The hoss I had backed in the Ebor didn't run the way it was supposed to, and that was the end of that trip. |
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How was it Stevie, and where?
Did this a few years ago over Henley on Thames. Fantastic experience. Nowhere near as frightening as some might imagine - serene, peaceful and very different. As Facts says, landings can be bumpy. Ours was very hairy, hitting some tree canopies on the way down and landing in a field where some gypsies came over swigging beer and we were willing the recovery vehicles to get to us quickly. All good though in the end. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ballooning
Hmm, 13 definitions and not one of them describes the day out you're looking forward to. |
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Never been up in one,but i live about 3 miles from a hot air balloon business and they regularly crash land in the fields around my house.When one came down in one of my fields the pilot offered me a free go cos i kicked up a stink about letting the recovery vehicle on my property to retrieve the trespassing balloon.Hardly an advert for the pilots skills.
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Pilot? Doesn't he pretty much choose "Up" or "Down", in that sense a lift attendant is a pilot, or a kid playing "Flappy Bird".
*disclosure: I've never tried it and I'm sure it's really difficult, especially if there's no wind, more so if there is. |
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They give you some crap about finding the right 'thermals' to fly in to help change direction but essentially the 'pilot' is just trying to get you up and down smoothly and trying to come down around the allotted end time in a field which doesn't contain bulls. Or gypsies.
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That's a shame. Some of those gypsy women are stunners.
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Stevie hasn't reported back yet. Do you think he's still up there
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That other missing balloonist was called steve, spooky.
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well ....
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call me a taxi
03 Aug 14 22:24 Joined: 02 Oct 03 | Topic/replies: 3,418 | Blogger: call me a taxi's blog I asked about ballooning in Cumbria about 20 years ago. Iirc I was quoted £100 for an hour. The hoss I had backed in the Ebor didn't run the way it was supposed to, and that was the end of that trip. At least you tried  |
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ballooning When an uncircumsised man, whilst urinating, pinches his foreskin closed, thereby inflating his touque like a balloon (but with urine rather that air) My girlfriend won't give me head since she caught me ballooning in the bathroom. |
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Why are you sad Facts - no girlfriend to try it on or have you been circumcised?
And back to the original point of the thead, still no sign of Stevie since he went up in the balloon. Do you think he's made it to South America like the kid in Up? |
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I thought you had been eating too many biscuits.
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Geezer on BBC news A.M.................people asked wot they want to do before they die......................Balloon No 2
Susana Reid got to be No 1 |
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When I first switched on the BBC news this morning they were doing a piece about ballooning - and I immediately wondered if it was Stevie related!
Have you landed yet Mr Strikes?! |
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Most likely the balloon came down somewhere off the beaten track and Mr Strikes is in a world where Deliverance meets Run Of The Arrow.Dueling Banjos territory now .
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No, I've already checked on Football.
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Ken, i was actually thinking of Romney Marsh.
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Perhaps it was an around world trip in a balloon...the nation awaits
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Is the Stevie Strikes Ballooning Fate market under Specials?
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Has anyone called the feds
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RTB
Because it's just a stupid thing to do and could easily cause injury imo. |
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You'd never catch me in one of those death traps. A blow of wind and you either falling out the basket or crashing into electricity pylons.
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agreed hamster they can keep their balloons nothing but death traps
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standing in a basket in the air doesnt do it for me
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Brilliant experience! Everything I'd hoped it would be.
On balance, I'd prefer take my chances standing in a wicker basket strung from a bag of hot air than hurtling through the upper atmosphere in a metal tube attached to 100 tons of aviation fuel. |
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you just came down
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Have you been up there for 14 days?
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