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AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:36 pm
by Zippy8
Back in this thread I admitted my problem and vowed to take steps to address it.

I am useless :?

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All neatly arranged in categorised rows as well.

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Tunnel of lust ?

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But you know what ? To Hell with it. I'm a grown man (I have papers to prove this) and I'll do as I please (within reason). That said... maybe I could shift a few on. I mean, what harm could come of doing that ? :wink:

Mike,
unrepentant.

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 2:30 pm
by fworley
Its only half as bad as it looks, its half kite collection half antique collection.

-Frazer

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:16 am
by Stan Doff
I think the first pic shows your problem: there is too much grass showing.

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:25 pm
by Zippy8
If it's any consolation I appear to be trying to fill in the gaps.

Mike.

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:27 pm
by Flying Fish
That's the spirit!!

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:38 pm
by bryan beasley
Went for a surf this morning, cos hadn't been in the water for a fortninght - really nice onshore breeze though, so I had every intention of going back to the beach for a fly later on (there seems to be such little daylight left in the week allready). Got way-laid a bit though, doing - you know - 'stuff' and started tidying the garage. Considerably easier said than done.

Anyways... there's a pile of kite bags in the corner that really needed a tidy up to make some room for boxes of other useless stuff, so I got stuck in. I've been pretty brutal in kite culling over the past 3 or 4 years, and haven't actually bought anything new for a couple of seasons... (oooh, except that 180g delight from JoE). Sooo...

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AA worthy?

Nah. I'm cured.

Bryan

(Bonus points for naming 'em all.)

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:51 pm
by SteveC
Sorry Bryan, but you've obviously still got a pretty bad addiction there mate! .....Your only chance of a cure is to send 'em all to me for safe keeping!!! :biggrin:

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:51 pm
by Zippy8
bryan beasley wrote:
AA worthy?

Nah. I'm cured.

I shall have t-shirts made for all of us so afflicted with this delusion.

Talon, Trident, Matrix, Cosmic, Element, others. :wink:

Mike.

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:03 pm
by Flying Fish
I may have to bite the bullet and admit to needing such a t-shirt ....

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:06 pm
by bryan beasley
Oooh, oooh, new t-shirts. That's genius.

Bryan

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:57 pm
by fworley
I'd lay all mine out for y'all ... but my yards not big enough :oops:

-Frazer

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:01 am
by Coogee
What if they are self build............... surely they do not count. Or is that to be a different sub category of a kite, eh hem, problem.

Nah self build come under an entirely different category, that would be arts and crafts not kite buying.

I am OK but I think a couple of you, not naming anybody Mike, may have developed a slight bias towards maybe getting close to developing a sort of problem.

What the hell Mike you do not have 107 cats and collect old newspapers.

Enjoy the collection!

Mike

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:09 am
by Vee
I'm getting closer to my target of no more than 50 kites between the 2 of us, we've just agreed to give away 3 more.

Re: AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:26 am
by Flying Fish
I'm getting closer to my target of no more than 50 kites between the 2 of us


Blast ... I keep using the fact that there are two of us to try and defend the size of the collection, but if you're going to set the bar at 50 between two rather than 50 each, I've got a problem (Mike, where can I buy the shirt?)

AA meeting, revisited

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:25 am
by Bill Lancashire
I wonder if there is a special category if they are mostly the same kite. Phantoms in my case :)