A cure for 'PPKWS', and a PP on a PP ...

Puzzling title, eh? Read on, and all will become clear ...

The last addition to the Peter Powell kites collection was something like two and a half years ago. So well over two years without getting a new Peter Powell kite; I was really suffering from Peter Powell Kite Withdrawal Syndrome ('PPKWS')! There is an obvious cure for this condition, and we all know what that cure involves ...

Checking the Peter Powell Kites web-site, I realised that I never did anything when Paul and Mark added the 'Bubblegum' kites to their stock a while ago. And to really make up for this gaping neon-coloured hole in my collection, I ordered not one, but a pair of these. Matching the pink centre panel, I felt that pink tails would be appropriate for these kites.

So here are #78 and #79 in the collection, on the ground and in the air!

Now, PP kites with a clear pink aspect .... doesn't that make you think of something else, with the same initials??

Exactly ...

And the Pink Panther is known to be a kite flyer; check out this "Sky Blue Pink" short movie:

Towards the end of the movie, after many mishaps with his kite, the Pink Panther finally manages to soar through the air, suspended from his kite:

Now let's bring this back to Peter Powell kites ... I can pretty much recreate this particular scene, with a PP cuddly toy suspended from a PP kite!

Now we have two of these 'bubblegum' PPs, don't we? As it happens, we also have two cuddly PPs (long story ...).

The Pink Panthers were quite exhausted from their first flight ...

I don't think anyone has ever flown a Peter Powell kite with a Pink Panther suspended from it, let alone a pair of them. So this is a first in the 13+ billion year history of the current universe .... 

The weight of a PP-carrying PP nearly doubled, and that was very clear when flying them. Slower, less nimble when turning, and needing more wind. And, of course, there is only one piece of music we can ever fly this pair of PP-manned PP kites to if we ever fly them at a festival:

A different version of this blog post is posted simultaneously on our Flying Fish blog.

Happy 10th blog-birthday!

I started this blog on my Peter Powell kites and other 'things Peter Powell' on February 1, 2016, which means today I'm celebrating the 10th blog-birthday!

In those 10 years, I've written 116 blog posts (117 if you count this one), mostly about the Peter Powell kites that I managed to add to the collection (while considering kites from the Caribbean Kite Company as part of the family). It's been nearly two year since I last added a blog post. That's partly due to health issues (if you know, you know), but mostly because I simply haven't come across any PP kites, old or new, that added something to the collection and were thus worthwhile getting.

And talking kites, the collection now stands at 77 Peter Powell kites (where I count stacks as one kite, independent of the number of sails in the stack): 26 original (Mk I and II) Peter Powell kites, 19 from the American arm of Peter Powell Kites, 12 Caribbean Kite Company kites, and 20 new Mk III kites. 

Here they all are (kites that were bought as a pair/group and will always be flown as such are in one picture, and the sequence is not in the order in which they were obtained, but, rather, Mk I/II kites first, then American kites, and Mk III kites last).

I can't imagine that the collection will remain at 77 ... If nothing else, I'm sure Paul and Mark will bring out something 'new' sooner or later.