Flight Over The Tews

For quite some time, our good friend Peter has promised to take Mummy up with him and his wife in a plane ride that he was given to him as a Birthday present. For several reasons including bad weather a couple times, and even the plane being un-airworthy, this flight had not taken place. That is until we got a phone call from Peter starting with "I know this is short notice, but..." So Mum headed off to fly over the village where we live as well as some of the surrounding towns. However, due to fuel delays they didn't take off when they expected, so I then got a phone call from Peter saying that my Mum and his wife had gone up first and would I care to join him for his turn. Of course I said yes!! The last time I had gone flying was way back in 2006 with Sir Grumpy, and that was flying over Montreal and the West Island so very different :) These are a few images that I managed to take, unfortunately neither Mum nor I were able to capture the Vicarage from right above, but we got the church a few other landmarks.

Peter, and our pilot Derek in our plane.
The dash board, I have no idea what any of it means...
Tew Park, where the Horse Trials are held (you might be able to see some of the jumps).
The wee Village of Tew :) From the top of the picture down, the green circle is of Court Farm; the purple circle is of the Green where the shop, pub and school are; the yellow circle is of the Estate Offices; the red circle is Big House (unoccupied); the black circle is the Coach House (aka: the Glass House) where the Squire and Family lives; and finally the faint blue circle is the church.
Tew Blue Vein and Ironstone Quarry
Another view of the Village, and the yellow circle is the Vicarage!!
This is Little Tew to the south of Great Tew. The small L-shaped building in the center of the picture is the church.
Great Tew, the dark trees at the top of the picture, and Little Tew at the bottom, together.
The nearby market town of Chippy.
The town of Bloxham where Mum and I are moving to. the steeple spire you can see slightly left of center of the picture is the church.
The great town of Banbury, home of the Banbury Cross ridden to by the fine Lady upon a white horse...
The runway upon our descent.
Back on terra firma :)