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WHKF Swindon Workshop,
Boris's Bring a Bottle Lockdown Party, You can help defeat the Covid-19 Pandemic Confirm event details on Julie White's excellent Kite Calendar + Normal calendar for 2020 HERE N.B. RAFFLE or TOMBOLA or AUCTION - donations are always welcome! To avoid confusion (mostly mine), I have also briefly listed the Main Events below, in date order, with links to their own GOG pages. N.B. In light of the dynamic situation regarding Corona Virus please check events are not CANCELLED before travelling Some events may become Virtual Kite Festivals where participants join up on line with Zoom Video Conferencing App and put up banners, kites, drinkies etc indoors or in your garden! You can get Windows PC version for FREE HERE More Zoom info HERE.... BE PREPARED!
She is known to some British flyers and has displayed at Dieppe 2018. She also visits RSA to have serious kite fun with our mate Pieter Binsbergen! Please visit THIS WEB PAGE or the Facebook page for full details. It certainly looks as if Andrew, Sandra and Keith enjoyed themselves! Andrew took a VIDEO 
At the end of a busy Sunday session - ALL DONE - Lots of familiar faces here! 
Karl Longbottom kindly took some great photos - Alicja posted a lovely Facebook message as well HERE See all the WHKF workshop photos here - WHKF Facebook Photo Album Footnote:- Alicja kindly completed Nick's kite and is sending it back to UK - we hope to see it flying here soon. 
Sunday 29th March 2020 - B.S.T. begins! CANCELLED Crossness Pumping station - Grand Day Out: 5 April 2020 CANCELLED Bazalgette Way, Abbey Wood, London SE2 9AQ They will be in steam on the day! Do you remember when the Gits last visited here back in 2009? Take a look back... Please see www.crossness.org.uk for more details and to add lustre to the day Malcolm & Margaret are leading a Harley ride out there! CANCELLED Berck-Sur-Mer: 11-19 April 2020 Website +
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Autoroute A16, sortie 25 (Berck) - It is advisable to arrive before 10am. Esplanade Parmentier is closed to traffic over a large part - cars should avoid that area. Saturday 18th April 10:00 - 10:30pm = FIREWORKS POSTPONED Cervia Kite Festival April 24 - 3 May POSTPONED VIRTUAL EVENT +++ Jolly Up 26: 25th April 2020 +++ VIRTUAL EVENT On Line Frivolities & Shenanagins - Saturday ONLY
On line with Zoom Video Conferencing App - get Windows PC version for FREE HERE Gits Attending = Most of them! CANCELLED Broadhaven Kiters Rendezvous: 8-10 May 2020 CANCELLED Broad Haven's Blue Flag beach, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA62 3JH MKF & WHKF Kitefliers Rendezvous for VE Day 75th Anniversary - details on WHKF Website CANCELLED 22nd Streatham Kite Day: 10th May 2020 CANCELLED Organiser = Bob Colover + Website + Postcode SW16 3BU CANCELLED 5th Bridlington Kite Festival: 16-17 May 2020 CANCELLED in assoc. with The Northern Kite Group, Sewerby Fields, Bridlington, North Yorkshire YO15 1EA PRIVATE Boris's Bring A Bottle Lockdown Party: 20 May 2020 PRIVATE VIPs and Downing street staff only may attend to enjoy the lovely weather Joe Public and other plebs must stay at home in lockdown "Don't do what I do - Do what I say!" CANCELLED Margam Kite Festival: 22-26 May 2020
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Margam, Neath Port Talbot SA13 2TJ + Website Grease sing-along film on Friday 22nd 9:30-11:30pm in the Orangery Gardens - BUY TICKETS Skybums one day workshop on Saturday will be a RHOMBOX The fancy dress theme for Bank Holiday Monday's family fun day is Witches and Wizards. Gits Attending = Most of them + a zillion midges For more info + photos & comments please visit the Margam 2020 page. CANCELLED Westward Ho! Festival Of Kites: 24 May 2020 CANCELLED 10:30 - 17:00 at Westward Ho Beach, Pebblebridge Rd, near Bideford EX39 1XS (additional car parks in Nelson Road & Golf Links Road)
CANCELLED +++ 28th Basingstoke KF: 6-7 June 2020 +++ CANCELLED May's Bounty Cricket Ground, Fairfields Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 3DH + AERIAL VIEW Organised by Roy Broadley & Loddon Valley Kite Flyers
Council Website
Gits Attending = Most of them! CANCELLED +++ Houlgate Plein Vent: 6-7 June 2020 +++ CANCELLED Promenade Roland Garros, 14510 Houlgate, France + MAP
A bientôt/See you there! 2019 Google Photo Album CANCELLED +++ Teston KKF Fly-In: Sunday 14 June 2020 +++ CANCELLED Flickr Album + Website + Teston Bridge Country Park ME18 5BX
Organised by Kent KIte Flyers
CANCELLED 36th Fanø International Kite Festival: 14-21 June 2020 CANCELLED Visit Fanø Website + Kitefliers Meeting Website + Google Map Drachen.org Website + Fanø Kite Festival Videoguide + Fanønatur National Park FB Photo Album Ralf Maserski 2015 Photo Album 2015 Youtube Videos by:- Henning Christiansen + Andree Ewest + Kite Builders Gits Attending = Keith & Dicky, Alan & Anne, Andrew & Sandra, Bob & Carole For more photos & comments please visit the Fanø 2020 page. CANCELLED Barmouth Beach weekend kite fly: 4-5 July 2020
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Website + Email:Kitesbarmouth@gmail.com on Barmouth Beach, in front of the Lifeboat Station - Postcode LL42 1NF CANCELLED +++ Berrington Hall KF: 11-12 July 2020 +++ CANCELLED The National Trust's Berrington Hall, Leominster, Herefordshire HR6 0DW + NT Website Organiser:- billy.souten(at)btinternet.com" CANCELLED +++ Brighton KF: 11-12 July 2020 +++
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Stanmer Park BN1 9SE CANCELLED Tewkesbury Kite Festival: 25-26 July 2020 Website +
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10:00am - 5:00pm at Tewkesbury School, Ashchurch Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 8DF A Jolly Day Out: 31 July 2020 In The Kite Field , between the M3 and Southlea, Cliddesden, Basingstoke RG25 2JL + Guide 
A Socially Distanced Git Convoy! For more photos please see A Jolly Day Out Gits Attending = Keith, Dicky & Alan C, Andrew & Sandra, Alan & Anne O Teston Fun Day For Gits: 1 August 2020 Gits Attending = Keith, Andrew & Sandra, Alan & Anne O Teston Bridge Website Teston Bridge Country Park ME18 5BX 
Sandra Scott took some wonderful photos of 3 Alicja Szalska workshop kites
and then Keith got his Big Bad Boy Purple Delta Serpent into the air... 
to which Sandra replied with a pair of Love Hearts (in Scottish colours, of course) 
- then they all went home for tea... CANCELLED +++ Jolly Up 27: 1-2 August 2020 +++ CANCELLED CANCELLED Sunderland Kite Festival 2020:1-2 August 2020 from 10am to 5pm CANCELLED +
Website UNDER CONSTRUCTION +
Email +
Registration Form
Herrington Country Park, City of Sunderland DH4 7EL ... watch this space for directions and parking info! CANCELLED Royston Charity Kite Festival and Historic Vehicle Show: 2 August 2020 from 10.30 to 4.30 CANCELLED Organised by Rotary Club of Royston on Therfield Heath SG8 9NU Website + Email:kites@roystonrotary.com +
2019 Facebook Photo Album: Team Spectrum CANCELLED +++ Teston Kiteability 32nd Anniversary Weekend: 8-9 August 2020 +++
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Website +
Teston Bridge Country Park ME18 5BX
Camping from Friday through to Monday as usual. Organised by Kent KIte Flyers Gits Attending = Most of them! BE ADVISED - The site entrance is now covered by an ANPR camera - if you wish to avoid a hefty fine, be sure to give your vehicle registration to Malcolm Ford of KKF - they have had to pick up the cost of this arrangement, which means the cost of a 4 person pitch over the weekend has risen to £12.00 - or more if you are feeling generous! N.B. This arrangement is only for cars parked on the grass - not for vehicles left in the car park. CANCELLED 29th Portsmouth International Kite Festival: 8-9 August 2020 CANCELLED Southsea Common, Clarence Esplanade, Portsmouth PO5 3AE Website +
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Satnav:- Country: Netherlands, Postcode: 4891, Street: Tiggeltsestraat From Calais A16 then E40 toward Bruges, then E40 toward Ghent, then E17 toward Antwerp, E19 (A1) toward Breda, take the exit to Zundert, turn right onto N263 follow the signs Rijsbergen, past Restaurant Tafelen. After Tuincentrum Bosrand (Garden Centre), left into Huisakkerstraat. Then right by Café Buitenlust into Tiggeltsestraat, after 100 meters on the right is the entrance to the meadow. Aerial view of site HERE - festival site in meadows east of crossroads by Café Buitenlust Gits Attending = TBA You can sign up on line HERE + View 2020 Participants List 2017 Slide Show + 2018 Rijsbergen Weekend Full Report CANCELLED 6th Bognor Regis Kite Festival: 29-31 August 2020 CANCELLED King George V Playing Fields, Felpham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO22 8QS CANCELLED Burnham on Sea Kite Festival: 5-6 September 2020 CANCELLED on Burnham Beaches 1 & 2 - leave M5 at J22 and follow the blue kite shaped signs - SATNAV TA8 1BT Early arrivals meet up at Vinnies fish-n-chips on the front @ 7.00pm on Friday 4th. Please let us know if you are coming Email Gaynor All available details on this GOG web page www.grumpyoldgits.org/2020/burnham.htm and on Burnham.com Website CANCELLED St Annes International Kite Festival: 11-13 September 2020 CANCELLED The Promenade, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire FY8 1LS More info HERE + POSTPONED TO 2021 +++ 40th Dieppe KF: 12-20 September 2020 +++ POSTPONED TO 2021 Theme for 2020:- The Earth in the Spotlight +
Official Website +
Sandrine on Facebook +
Please note that kite fliers must register before 17/08/2020 - Register Here Gits Attending = TBA CANCELLED 10th WHKF Lechlade Fun Fly: 26-27 September 2020 Directions on WHKF Website CANCELLED Nearest post code for the site is GL7 3AT - on the other side of the road about 100yds closer to the town centre. Note this is a WHKF event - we are setting up from 10.AM on the Friday. Any help welcome. WHKF FF19 Photo Album NEW DATE Cervia 40th International Kite Festival: 25 September - 4 October 2020 Website +
Main location: Beach and Magazzino del Sale - Via Arenile Demaniale, 48015 Cervia RA, Italia Sunday 25th October 2020 - B.S.T. ends at 02:00 LUTS: 10 October 2020 - for Children in Need - UNCONFIRMED In The Kite Field, between the M3 and Southlea, Cliddesden, Basingstke RG25 2JL Conveniently next to one of our favourite pubs, The Jolly Farmer Facebook Page + Website Camping available from Friday afternoon until Sunday, NO facilities provided. Bring your own food and drink & barbecue. BBQ provided from 6 pm Saturday evening. There may be a marquee in case, and a fire pit to help keep you warm. Gits Attending = TBA OSOW: Sunday 11 October 2020 - DAYTIME ONLY - UNCONFIRMED In The Kite Field, between the M3 and Southlea, Cliddesden, Basingstke RG25 2JL Conveniently next to one of our favourite pubs, The Jolly Farmer Facebook Page + Website GOG Xmas Bash + Absent Friends Fly-in: ?? December 2020 - UNCONFIRMED | ||||||||||||
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