From what I heard the Bournemouth Air Festival was a huge success. I had to miss it due to driving up to Sunderland but I definitely caught the traffic on the Friday leaving work.

PlanesTV has a preview video on YouTube (click) but you can see more on their corporate web site, although judging by some of the comments it is a bit difficult to use.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the air show coming to Bournemouth next year. I think Bournemouth Council has done a great job in holding the event but also reversing its decision on the fireworks so that it was back to normal.

The next main event is the Harley Davidson Rally on Saturday the 27th September.

We also visited the Swanage folk festival last weekend. I should have took my camera as there were loads of groups of Morris Dancers. OK, not typically my cup of tea but it was funny to see the whole range of ye olde worlde traditional beardy ones, through to old granny cum aerobics group, through to young rapscallions having a laugh for the day. pity the sun didn't come out for the Sunday.