It wasn’t until drivenbywind got the ok to run from the WSSRC that I realised the candle had been burning at both ends. Since we moved its been non stop, building the office / gym and the final set-up for driven by wind, guess I’ve been running on adrenalin for the last weeks, once we got the results and past our last week, my body just shut down.

Even though we had to leave at 5 am to get everything set-up at the ray, I was up and already to leave way before the others turned up. If you’d said I looked tired there’s no way I would have believed it, but come Wednesday I couldn’t stay awake.

Normally I only need four to six hours a night, I hardly had my eye’s open that long for the next forty-eight hours. Fortunately we didn’t get any wind so nothing lost for the event, but come Friday the winds tried to make a comeback.

While not enough to windsurf, we did get out on the kites, but more worrying Anthony wanted me to teach him how to kite. It’s only my tenth time on strings and I’m basically still out of control, so I wouldn’t trust me.

We gave him a run through on the beach, think we said how to eject encase of trouble and headed out on the water. Shaun had been out while we were at the ray and was bigging up his jumps, so how could I not give it a go.

In the world of kitting it wasn’t high, but while the landing wasn’t pleasant, it was enough to leave me looking down on Shaun. Going up is easy, just haven’t got the hand of driving the kite forward again, particularly when I tried a back roll… another challenge we’ve got going.

The kids said I’ve been grumpy for the last weeks, but that soon changed when I brought two motorised skateboards back from Wet ‘n’ Dry Board Sports. Suddenly Dad was cool. How easily kids are influenced. Though I was surprised how long they lasted, managed a few times around the town, shouldn’t be hard to get then to pop to the shops from now on.

Now I’ve woken up I’ve really got to get on with the website for drivenbywind, with all the efforts going into getting the event running I have to confess to letting the website get away from me.