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Click here to see pictures from last year

Might pop down again this year, there were some good kites there last year.

Might have a go at flying mine too

oh wow - cool - this was great last year

I missed it last year

Some pics from last year

OoH! Can't wait now
Thanks MisG

yer waddi got some awesome pix lastime

Pretty sure it was Joe that got all the pics last year, I only posted a few, in fear of dupilcating Joes.

Kites Over The Mersey - Wirral

Saturday 11:00 - 17:00


6th – 7th June 2009

The 'Dips' at New Brighton are again to be the venue for Wirral’s seventh annual Kite Festival, featuring award winning guest fliers from all over the World and the best of the British Flyers.

The event taking place from 11 am to 4.00pm is a two day event for all the family with a variety of spectacular show kites on display, including artistic kites, giant inflatable kites, sports kites and power kites. There will also be a kite-making workshop for all those have-a-go fliers! The cost for the Kite Making workshop will be £1.00. There is also a children's funfair, trade stands and food court.

International flyers confirmed for 2009 festival

Bas Vreeswijk
Iqbal Husain
Robert Brassington
Juergen & Gaby Ebbinghaus
Ludovico Bertozzi
Wolfgang Shimmelpfennig
Godfrey Gamble
Malcolm Goodman
Anna & Diety Gispen

There is also an aray of 'Home Grown' UK talent including
Carl & James Robertshaw
Dave Holt
Andrew & Kathleen Beattie
Kite Collective
Karl Longbottom
Malcolm Goodman
Kelvin Wood
Mike Goddard

Road Directions

Exit the M53 at jct 1 and follow the signs for New Brighton.

Exiting the Wallasey Tunnel, follow the signs for Liscard and New Brighton (A554).

Exiting the Birkenhead Tunnel follow the signs for Wallasey, Liscard and the New Brighton (A554).

I'm looking forward to this - got ma-in-law coming this weekend. Hoping it meets with her approval

HEY HEY im going to this im excited now carnt wait woooo carnt wait till dis week end

tomorrow!!!!

yerrr tomorrow who,s going pix pix pix lol

i shall be!

Take waterproofs and umbrellas... heavy rain forecasted for the weekend.

was just about to say this, my bro just text me telling me.

Hopefully is wil change, they said it was gonna be bad the other day and it was nice and sunny

I'm going!

I'm going

indeed - also meant to have had showers today but i dont see any! few dodgy looking clouds but nothing that shows any immediate signs of pissy weather ... and i'll be in hull anyway lol

quick downpour here about 3pm, but nothing now

nice and sunny again

I am going to try and get down to the Dips. I bought a new HD camera and want to try it out and shove the results up on YouTube.

See what the weather does first...

hey people im going down 2morrow at 11 but dont know how long i will be down there for soo hope to see all friendly faces there

Anybody planning on 'wiki' 'i.d' tag type things?

eh? what you mean by id tags for wiki tags ? me is confussed

As in a badge with "wiki" on it or your name.

But I know my name?

I even have my address written in my underpants..though I never knew I lived on Skid Row!

you is pished? Lol. X

Lets just say that 2 or more wiki-heads wearing 'wiki-id' meet tomorrow at the kites....
Wot do you address people as when they become 'real'? I have a weird thought of strangers sayin, for ex.-
"elo. Im bigbolloxbirkenhead from the wiki"
The reply?
"and my name is tartytitstina-did you read my post about farting?"
Ya wiv me? Get me jist?

Or maybe 'folks' are right? -I. Am. Weird!
Hahahaha. Guffaw

Weather is not too good at the moment!

This afternoon is going to be a bit better I believe.

I'm not leavin the house till its nicer

might go later if the weather gets better

me nether i have just finished work it was a very wet morning

Gutted were,s are sun gone

I ate it

me to me to

I might go down now to see if there still going to be on

No robbo i ate the sun, its in my belly


Ooo yer then tell me what its like!!

you can not get better than pix

pix up soon

I'm going down in a minute

just been its wet but still on pics up in 2 secs

pix

more

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yerr

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last few pix

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Yerrr check this CAR KITE OUT lol

Freaky!!!

They are a little Freaky!!!

Looks pretty much like last year's event.

it was sunny last year

i think i,m going to go back down for a burger or 2 lol

Get some Autowirral stickers on the car kite Robbo!

Rick drove past and says he saw your car Robbo. Well he saw the sticker on your car anyway lol Hope your burger(s) are nice.

As a power kiter i can tell you its easterly winds for all of the weekend. That means overland wind which is lumpy and unpredictable. Absolutely crap for good flying and the railway line causes lots of disruption added to the wet conditions i cann't see this year being a big success even with flyers from all over the world being here.

I think the next event is up past morcambe and i have seen some of these at york races as part of bike week.

KITES the animal ones are scary if i dont say so myself, not a fan of the car or that fish thing!

graet pics robbo

yerr we should make some autowirral and wiki kites lol

Do it!

Here's my piccies
Part 1

Part 2

There was a guy doing a demo 'dancing' his kite to Thriller which I've got on video but don't know how to load on here.

you have to upload it to youtube

lol my kite lol

the forgotten 1

Cheers Rob. I had a feeling that was how it was done

did any 1 go today

i did but forgot the camera lol

No - I was going to but caught side tracked with gardening and housework :-(

Yes, I went this morning. Here are a few of my pictures (not up to your standards of course):

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Nice pics everyone. I'm liking the cow

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That cow is my new avatar

The cow looks absolutely amazing. Wonderful pics. Thanks for sharing them.