It's kite day today. For the last two years 100's of people arrive at the sandy beach round the coast and attempt to launch kites they have just purchased on the roadside somewhere (pop-up stalls and hawkers of cheap kites appear out of nowhere and then disappear again like some insect that appears when rain falls on a desert, breed quickly and vanish again as the moisture evaporates).
We aren't going round the corner to see whether this year is the same. Every year a couple of rebels try their luck from the rocky coast in front of us. This year is no different.
Probably not clever to try and launch a kite with the breeze blowing from the sea into the trees.
F made us three kites (there are three of us) - two royal sleds and a swallow-tail, but we can't fly them because there haven't been any shops open from which we can buy the sticks to frame them out.
We figure we can fly kites any time there is enough of the right breeze. We can fly kites any time we like instead of just one day a year - once we get sticks and string. It's a strange old life when your humans have to get innovative about stuff they used to just go out and buy any time they had the whim.
With a gale blowing here this weekend any kites we try to launch are likely to end up in Siberia.
ReplyDeleteAnd cat with it. I shall remind my humans not to tie my kite to my backpack!
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ReplyDeleteYeah, trees and kites are not a good combo - you'd've thought that peeps who do this regularly would have known it. Perhaps they are hoping the trees will hide them from authorities lookind to crackdown with lockdown... forgetting that a kite tends to advertise... I think F and Mr B have the right idea. The time for kite-flying will come and that day will be Kite Day! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
We'll take some photos when we finally get our own kites off the ground. Fz & Pz Mr T.
DeleteI am loving that rocky slope. just one more thing the pandemic has stolen from us, kte sticks, who knew that? I did not. Kites are common on our beaches here.
ReplyDeleteIt's that big thing called tradition. My dear gr husband will explain it all to you in great detail. Our kites are ready for tomorrow. Last year the kids towed them along on an electric scooter. Loads of fun
ReplyDeleteWe hope you get just the right amount of wind and that your kites soar gracefully.
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