Well it’s almost halfway through my trip to Europe and it’s gone in a flash because each day is different and life is full on.   As you may know England has had the wettest July on record yet surprisingly flooding has been minimal.   Down here in the Southwest it has been particularly soggy and the field from which I used to fly is awash.   Despite this Sue has created an Oasis of colour in a traditional English garden which is abundant in fruit.   The pear crop looks fantastic but I may miss the best of it by returning to NZ in Early September.

Somerset is an Oasis of tranquility positioned between the areas of high density housing and employment and the traditional holiday destinations of Devon and Cornwall.  However as a result the major roads become congested with towed caravans and overloaded family saloons nose to tail for miles every weekend.  We escaped to London by train last weekend and enjoyed a mass family gathering and a long walk through Hyde Park the next day to clear the head!  

The water feature constructed in memory of Diana Princess of Wales was a magnet for children who scampered around in the flowing stream and waterfalls in a manor she would have embraced, truly a living and fitting point of remembrance.  A somewhat larger water feature is the nearby Serpentine which was created by George the second for Queen Charlotte in 1725 some 50 years before Captain Cook came to New Zealand!

Amongst all this social activity I have been busy on the aviation front also.  I visited Gary Layzell who is marketing the Montgomerie Benson as well as his own manufactured rotorblades and Cricket gyros.

I have ordered more helmets of the style that I use on a daily basis in Tauranga, the features are exceptional as is the comfort and noise suppression.  The shell interior is constructed from NASA designed ‘memory foam’ which provides a perfect fit moulded to an individual head.  The acoustics are excellent and the BSI certification reassuring.

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