What could you try for the first time?

From time to time I have looked with amazement at people who are parachuting from aeroplanes and coming down to Mother Earth. One of our sons on his 21st birthday, did an assistant skydive. He had fun but has never been up again.

From time to time I have watched bungee jumping and others testing gravity by jumping from great heights is a very small it seems safety harness attached to them.

There’s also abseiling which turned some people on.

All these gravity-defying challenges I could attempt, but I am not Henry the BraveHeart.I could, but I won’t.

As a young man, I had to help my father on the farm fixing windmills and climbing up and assisting him from a triangular wooden platform below the rotating mill head frightened me like one thing. I am very very nervous about heights.

During my life, I’ve travelled in a lot of aeroplanes from gigantic to very small six-seater one-engine Cessnas. I confess to having never felt comfortable when flying because I do not like being up in the air. It’s terra firma or Mother Earth for me and I like to have my feet on the ground.

So although I could become adventuresome trying these things I have never tried (other than flying in aeroplane), I am no “Dare to be a Daniel”.

I find it easy to say “Noel” to any thought of any of these undertakings and staying right here on the ground.