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Well a short summary :-
Thursday 10th June - dropped Pings rucsac off at Susan`s.
Friday 11th June early start as Ping doing half day prior to travelling down to Airport. Susan picked her up and transferred Ping to Airport - no issues and Ping checked in and through security quite quickly.
Ping called me from Amsterdam later and on arrival in China on the Saturday.  In the evening met Richard and started at The Filmhouse Bar - prior to going down to the Ghillie Dhu for a nice evening.
Saturday - started to cut grass but called over to Richards for car and left things as they were - half done one lawn and didn`t get back so in big trouble there. Purchased brake discs and pads for rear of Carisma from Pentland Components and Richard started fitting them. Lots of issues getting the old ones off. Incomplete when went by bus to Neil and Claire`s for an excellent bbq till quite late.
Sunday continued the car - Richard had adapted a 1 1/16th socket to aid winding back of the calipers and job done relatively quickly therafter.
Monday - went to Hillend but didn`t fly and didn`t walk up
Wednesday - Hillend again - this time still no wind but went to top and had a quick ttb - full on forward launch. Foot rest attachment failing. Returned to Stirling.To Steading afterwards with the whole crowd- The book was there - excellent - must buy one nexy payday.
Thursday - Moorfoots - saw Mike Jardine having a couple of hops and another pilot going West (turned out to be Charlie Silverton) - having changed to my Mac Utopia harness - did a little slight ground handling and eventually had another full on forward launch ttb - though uncomfortable as not seated in harness - need to make adjustments. After landing and packing up - Charlie had waited for the best conditions and had a lovely flight. I went to pick him up but he got back to car area and I went ot talk with him there. returned to Stirling - very tired and hungry / thirsty - purchased chicken and chips.

A perfect day ...

Well yesterday turned out to be a perfect day as far as I was concerned ....

Firstly - walked up at Menstrie with wing, used walking poles - but still sweating profusely on arraival at the top. I was about to launch when others started arriving and I met the legendary Snowy for the first time. I reverse launched in very light conditions a little later to have a 10 minute boat around / ttb -lovely. I didn`t see any of these pilots flying afterwards but I am sy=ure they will have had a lovely time - anyhow I enjoyed it immensely. Then walked back to car and back home at about 1.30pm.  On landing the clouds looked epic though some overdevelopment occurred and a light shower did take place later in the afternoon.

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Returned home had a soft drink and then walked into town to join Ping - just purchased some odds and ends and gifts for Pings forthcoming trip to parents in law. Then wemt to Druthy Neebors for another soft drink and then wandered home. Not home for long when Chris called and said he would be arriving in about 15 minutes. Quick mad tidyup occurred and then Chris Mhairi, Fraser and Alasdair arrived - had a lovely conversation which continued on when we went to Nando`s - really nice to see them all - and to be honest the food wasn`t too bad either.  Good crack.  On returning home then Ping said we could watch the latest LoveFilm DVD we had - Belle Epoque - with a couple of glasses of wine - ends a perfect day.