title The Old Buckenham Not Air Balloon Festival, Norfolk - 13th August 2023 intro Isobel's got three free tickets to the Old Buckenham Hot Air Balloon Festival, so we get up at the crack of dawn to try and catch the morning lift-off on the Sunday, with Isobel managing to lig Harry in on the gate. Somewhat predictably, the weather lets it down as although it's nice and sunny, it's also too windy. Even so, a couple of balloons give it a go and briefly get upright, albeit tethered down, although one of them burns holes all around the bottom of its envelope as it flaps about in the breeze whilst trying to inflate. After that, we generally hang out for a bit, as a couple of bands do their thing interspersed with Park Radio and its local-radio-off-of-the-90s soundtrack. imgp5880 It's 6.15am and a couple of balloons have a go imgp5885 One balloon gets in the air briefly imgp5891 A fan inflates the second balloon imgp5897 The KLM balloon is actually smoking as it burns imgp5899 Both balloons make it into the air briefly imgp5908 Harry, Andrew and Tilly Dog imgp5911 Tilly Dog looks for some reassurance imgp5912 Some cute animatronic dinosaurs appear imgp5919 The Dinosaur wranglers meet the people imgp5921 Harry sits on a rug and slurps orange juice imgp5922 A bin is the only thing listening to Park Radio imgp5923 Fred, Harry and Soph the Roph head off imgp5926 The festival arena fills up imgp5928 Fred does some sort of little dance imgp5931 A couple of balloon envelopes are laid out imgp5935 There's a band with a bass harmonica imgp5939 A couple of burners point to the sky imgp5940 A view over the campsite lake imgp5942 There's a balloon theme in a marquee imgp5943 Some comedy science experiments occur imgp5948 There's fun with dry ice imgp5952 The science demonstration is popular imgp5955 Lex out of Jurassic Park watches the experiment imgp5957 A dry ice cloud experiment imgp5966 Someone flies a kite right over the crowds imgp5967 We head off via the food tents