RIAT 2024
As a middle aged, no..scratch that…as a three quarter aged dad to a young child, with a fairly stressful job the amount of time I can devote to hobbies has diminished over the years and RIAT is normally a sudden realisation of “shit, I need to pack, we’re going tomorrow”. However, this year for the […]
RIAT 2023
I am compiling this blog post about RIAT 2023 3 2 1 week before I hopefully go to RIAT 2024 which tells you how little spare time I have for blog posting, especially as I also run a fly fishing blog as well. Last year was a bit of a crazy one and not necessarily […]
Elvington 2004
23 August 2004 2004…the year I got my first DSLR. I’d been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and during treatment decided to cheer myself up by banging a Canon 300D and on my credit card (£724.99) after seeing it in an advert. I hadn’t even realised you could get digital SLRs before then! […]
Church Fenton 1980 – my first airshow
My first airshow was probably around 1980, at Church Fenton near Leeds. I have only glimpses of memories from that day – one is of the red bricks used on the station buildings (because clearly that’s what you should remember about an airshow) and the other is a toy English Electric Lightning I got that […]