Friday, 18 March 2011

Let's go fly a kite


The words from the Mary Poppins song are well known:
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite! 
The first lines are possibly less well known
With tuppence for paper and strings,
You can have your own set of wings. 
but they remain with me because I remember so well trying to make my own kite from paper and strings.  It never worked, no matter how fast I ran over the sand dunes, just like this little girl.

At least my heavyweight kite was my only worry and my memories of running over and around the dunes are filled with happiness.  This card is sold by a Dutch organisation, Kinderpostzegels, which is committed to supporting children in need both home and abroad, and encourages children to raise money for less fortunate children, "Voor kinderen door kinderen".

This is a post for Postcard Friday, which is hosted by Beth Niquette at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

12 comments:

  1. My dad told me to go fly a kite every once in a while. I tried making several newspaper kites too and was never successful. Perhaps a bad choice of glue. Maybe I should have used the travel section...

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  2. What a lovely post. In Oregon there is a beach we sometimes call the Kite Park--every summer there is a celebration of kites--the skies above the ocean is filled with every shape, size and type of kite that is made. It is a wonderful sight!

    So you actually learned Gaelic?! How wonderful. I am also Irish--but in America, of course, it was not a required "second" language! lol We had to learn Spanish instead.

    Happy PFF!

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  3. Here in San Francisco, the Marina Green and Ocean Beach are very popular for kite flying. I always love to see them soaring, especially the beautiful Japanese kites. They make me feel carefree and bring back memories of my own childhood.

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  4. Oh I loved kite flying. What fun even when they didn't fly all that well.

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  5. I have memories of kites made of newspaper - comics, or as we called them, the funny papers. Tails were strips of rags tied together. There was a field across from our house and we flew them there. Once one got wrapped around the electric wires - goodbye kite.

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  6. Breezes were never strong and steady enough where I grew up for kit flying. Plus lots of power lines. But the week we went to the beach... heaven!

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  7. Oh I loved flying kites with the children when they were younger, That is a lovely card!

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  8. A nice postcard for a good cause. I would love to fly a kite but we are having a few snow flurries outside. Not expected.
    Judy

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  9. I love flying kites when I was little... my grandfather used to make my kite using newspaper and string. That's a beautiful postcard for a worthy cause.


    Postcards Crossing

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  10. I was singing this song last night! And I was often told as a kid "ach away and fly a kite" When I was being a nuisance

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  11. It should be easy to fly a kite with the wind coming off the water. I used to fly kites when I was very small on a sand dune at the edge of our town, but only a river below. The secret to making a kite fly high and not just flop around and crash, is the tail, you know. It must be long enough and heavy enough to hold the kite "sail" steady into the wind. :)

    I have even more memories of the dunes besides the kites.

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