My weekend

Hi hello.  This has been a pretty good weekend!  I managed to go flying again yesterday, much to my surprise; given the weather here lately I'd been expecting the airfield to be closed.  Richard phoned up though and it wasn't, so we decided to try to fulfill my wish of flying over Glenshee if time allowed (in nautical miles it isn't that far); however when we got there, we had to wait for the frost to lift, and as he had work later we just weren't going to have time to make that flight.  So instead we just did some exercises with my turning, ascending, descending, etc. which I really enjoyed.  Eventually these will be second nature to me, at the moment I'm really having to concentrate.  Well actually the turning is fine, but ascending and descending require a lot more attention, which I'm not used to having to put out any more since I've effectively been out of study for well over a year.  So it's probably doing me good. :P  Richard's come up with this fantastic plan of us entering the races as a team once I've got my PPL, probably in about 2-3 years' time.  That would be so awesome.  The planes we would hope to fly in are probably about twice as fast as the Luscombe, but at a higher altitude I doubt the speed would be noticable.  The Luscombe cruises at about 90 mph and I don't feel it at all.

Anyhoo enough anoraking.  Today we went into town and visited the Victorian market, which was pretty nice; I also ran into an old friend who I haven't seen in years, so that was kinda cool.  We also went to the toy shop and picked up a new version of Cluedo, which we tried out later.  It's fairly similar to the original but there are extra playing cards to make the game more interesting and in some cases faster.  I enjoyed that, as well as helping to make dinner, which is always fun.  I just love cooking and I hadn't realized how much until we started doing ours up at home.  Hopefully we'll be able to use it again in time for Christmas. :)

So that's been my weekend; next and the following week are going to be pretty hectic!  I'll be going with Todd &co. to a Christmassy thing at a castle on Saturday, then going to a dance performance on Sunday night; on Monday I may be going shopping (not sure), Tuesday is my haircut... yeah.  It'll be nice actually because a lot of the time right now I don't know what to do with myself.  Ah well.  I'm looking forward to it. :)