Ian Lambton

Thanks too to you SHBKF for your welcome.

Many thanks Makatakam. I can guarantee questions, some of them pretty basic. I'm new at this but both my wife and I are hooked.

Many thanks John. I'm new to kite flying, sort of. I had one more than fifty years ago, which I recall flying just once and then about twenty five years later my daughter had one which we flew once or twice. I rediscovered the thrill of kite flying in September of this year when I bought a single line diamond for my wife to fly on the beach at St Annes (site of an annual kite festival), because she'd never flown one. A week or two later we bought a dual line stunt kite but couldn't get it airborne. A quick search of the ever dependable YouTube showed me what we'd been doing wrong and the following day I amazed myself. After an exhilarating hour or so in high winds, I managed to crash that kite on it's third outing, losing one of the spars and pulling the whiskers out of their locating holes and it awaits repair. A second stunt kite was bought immediately but hasn't been flown yet (storm force winds, torrential rain, bad back etc etc etc.) and a friend of my wife's has just bought us a small parachute kite which we're going to fly this weekend, weather permitting. Flying is great fun.