My usual early Saturday capture as I have a match this afternoon. I decided to sit on my patio for 5 minutes before getting ready, I then heard a plane flying around so grabbed my camera and waited to see if it came over head.
I not suggesting it was low but I nearly offered the pilot a cup of tea and a bun as it past. I did know it would be low as it's the tug flying from the glider field on the hill behind my village, you can see the tug wire trailing behind it as it returns after taking up a glider. I'll give my young neighbours a mention as they help out at the club and fly gliders themselves.
Now the reason for my title is quite simple, when I was very young my Father was very thrifty and often complained if we wasted anything. I can still hear him shouting as he went upstairs, "Who left the landing lights on again; we are not made of money".
He would always find something to turn off and would have a small grumble, not that we were poor, but growing up in both wars he knew that they had to save electricity.
Today when I put the lights off to go to bed I notice that in the kitchen and lounge that there are loads of little lights on for fridges, cookers, TV boxes, phones and now even the internet modem. Poor old Dad would be having kittens these days.
What a fun thing to see! I rode in a glider once and we caught a thermal and rode upward in a lazy circle above some hawks with the same idea! I had almost forgotten about that.
