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Flybaby

Pyx - fly as in up, up and away - always wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid and got nicknamed the flybaby and it stuck

Pyxis

Flybaby wrote: »

Pyx - fly as in up, up and away - always wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid and got nicknamed the flybaby and it stuck

Awwwwwwwww! Sweeeeeeeeee!







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Wellyboots6

I always wanted to be an F1 fighter pilot!
I think I maybe watched Top Gun and few hundred too many times!

Pyxis

Interesting use for a car seat!

Love it!

Flybaby

Ok - derek the dehumidifier is in place and all drippiness cleared up.........too wet and rainy to get up on the roof and seal the leak safely right now so will have to leave that and pray the weather improves tomorrow. I know OH wants to get someone in to fix it (to save me stress) but I just don't trust anyone else. Seriously need to get over that I know.
Trying to feel grateful that we have derek (due to other floods and on going damp problem) and thus can start the drying out process immediately - definitely needed as one of the walls where it has obviously been dripping for years is so sodden it is like toothpaste in patches! But on the bright side - discovering this leak may end up, when all is said, done and fixed, explaining why we had the unexplained damp issue, so silver lining and all that.

Flybaby

Katy - right there with you honey! When I was 16/17 I was seriously considering it and went on weekends to RAF bases for young hopefuls etc but at that time the sexism was still too rife and female pilots were a no-no. I was actually told that I would not make it due to the size of my breasts. C'est la vie! I got motorbikes and surfboards instead!

Pyxis

Flybaby wrote: »

Pyx - fly as in up, up and away - always wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid and got nicknamed the flybaby and it stuck

katy721 wrote: »

I always wanted to be an F1 fighter pilot!
I think I maybe watched Top Gun and few hundred too many times!

I was always mad mad mad on aeroplanes.
I used to draw them all over my rough book cover at school.
I'd read all the Biggles books, and then I wrote my own pilot story.
I used to cycle up to a local private airfield and ask if I could go and look at the planes.

I'd never been in a plane.

I finally managed to get in one, as a passenger, for the first time, on a package holiday, at the age of 19! I was so thrilled!
(I still get an immense thrill out of it! Take-off's the best, landing's second best, and the bit in the middle is good too! )

Couldn't hope to train as a pilot as was short-sighted and hopeless at maths and physics!
Then I spent a year, in my twenties, jumping out of them, mostly a little Cessna, but sometimes a Lysander too!

Sigh!

Wellyboots6

Oooh Pyxis, I am terrified of flying!!
I loved the idea of it, but when I actually got to go on a plane on holiday I was petrified!!
Couldn't imagine anything worse than jumping out of one. How do you make yourself do that? Surely it goes against all your instincts?

Flybaby, we had a roof leak above the window in what will be the nursery. The wall started falling to bits and the curtain rail fell off taking a load of plaster and brick with it. Next doors landlord fixed the leak, but our landlord is yet to fix the inside damage. Note the leak is sorted can they just patch over the hole or will it need more structural work doing to it?

Flybaby

ok...........altogether now...........collective sigh..............sounds like we have the makings of our own flying stunt team here! lol. My poor mum.....really wanted to go dress shopping and teach me to put on makeup........but instead, was dragged round every air show in the area. Bless her little cotton socks - she was and is awesome. I think nowadays she is very very pleased I can fix/make anything and sees the value of my odd skills (currently at her house I am laying a patio, re-fencing garden, boarding loft and today I strongly suspect I will be painting and moving her craft room over to bigger room) I know she would be happier still if I did all that with a bit of mascara on, but some things are just never going to happen!


Pyx - love the baby biggles - if I could figure it out I would use that as my avatar!

Flybaby

Katy - I am nominating you as the wing walker then **giggle**


I will let the wall dry out as much as possible and then if it doesn't resolidify enough, I will replace it. It's an internal wall ( the leak is around the boiler roof vent). I am quite good at brickwork so I won't have to get anyone in for that, thankfully.