Malmesbury

Jon Caton puts together the Malmesbury kite festival on the shortest of shoestring budgets but the whole town get behind the event to turn it into a glorious weekend in the English countryside.

Our hosts, who provided by far the best accommodation anywhere on the British kite circuit:

We fly next to the local cricket club. The field was re-arranged this year to move the kites out of the batsman's eye-line because during the previous event, the kites distracted the local players whilst the visitors were undistrurbed, leading to the loss of an important match. I don't know whether the player being bowled here is a local boy or the opposition...