The Kite Society of Great Britain lists UK events from 18 October 2026 to July 2027, and I fill my diary with wind
Primrose Hill Kite Day, Weymouth in April and Bridlington in May: A Kite Flyer’s Calendar From the Kite Society
The Kite Society of Great Britain lists UK events from 18 October 2026 to July 2027, and I fill my diary with wind
By Camden Rose, history student and kite flyer
Wednesday, Window Seat, Map Open
Dear diary, the Kite Society events page lists the calendar, and I have copied it into my diary with a pencil. The first event is Primrose Hill Kite Day on 18 October 2026, near Regent’s Park in London, which has just passed. I was not there either. I was at work. I am a hopeless kite person.
The page lists the dates as given, and I recommend checking the society’s site before you travel.
The Spring and Summer List
Next come Weymouth Beach Kite Festival, 9 to 11 April 2027, in Weymouth, Dorset; Bridlington Kite Festival, with the Northern Kite Group, 15 and 16 May 2027, at Sewerby Fields, Bridlington, North Yorkshire; and Washington Kite Festival, 19 and 20 June 2027, at the Northern Area Playing Fields in Washington. The page does not name a county for that last one.
Then Portsmouth International Kite Festival, 10 and 11 July 2027, at Southsea Common, and Southend-on-Sea Kite Day, 24 July 2027, at Thorpe Esplanade in Essex.
Further Afield
The page also lists three events outside the UK: Berck International Kite Festival in France, 17 to 25 April 2027; Cervia International Kite Festival in Italy, 22 April to 2 May 2027; and Dieppe International Kite Festival in France, 11 to 19 September 2027, which is marked provisional.
I will not be going abroad. My kite is not insured.
Packing Notes
A kite flyer needs a bag, a spare line, gloves, a hat, a flask, and a patient attitude. If you are new, start with a simple single-line kite on a day with steady wind, and stay away from trees and cables. I give this as common sense and not as anything in the Society’s list.
Watch the sky, the wind and the people around you, in that order of priority and in all orders.
A Warning About Wind
Too much wind is as bad as too little. A kite that pulls hard can hurt a child or take a hat. If the wind is gusty, fly low, and if it is stormy, stay at home. Kite Society members will know the rules better than I do.
I have lost three kites and one glove. I am qualified to warn.
My Calendar
I have marked Weymouth in April, Bridlington in May and Southsea in July. I will see how I do for money. Trains cost, and I am a student who dances on Fridays. I am hoping the nightclub relief comes through, to protect my budget as well as my feet.
That is a joke, and also true.
A Note on History
Each of these festivals is a small piece of local history, a fixture in a town’s year. Bridlington has the Yorkshire coast, Weymouth has the beach, Southend has the longest pier in the world, which I know from general reading and not from the page. A historian likes a fixture.
They give a year its shape.
Thursday
The wind is up. The kite is in the hall. The plan is in the diary.
Goodnight, diary. Pull the string.
Questions From the Field
Friend one: which is nearest? That depends where you live; Primrose Hill is in London, Weymouth in Dorset, Bridlington in North Yorkshire, Washington in the North East, Portsmouth on the south coast and Southend in Essex, though the page does not name Washington’s county. Friend two: do I need my own kite? The page does not say. Friend three: can I bring a dog? I said ask the organiser.
I find that being asked questions I cannot answer is good for me.
A Plan for the Year
April: Weymouth. May: Bridlington. June: Washington if the funds allow. July: Southsea and Southend, which are close enough to link with a train and a sandwich. September: perhaps Dieppe, if the provisional date is confirmed and the exchange rate is kind. I will check each event’s own page before I book anything, and I will put the dates in two calendars, because one calendar always loses a weekend to a dentist or a wedding.
Kite Line Reading
On the field, somebody always has the paper. Ours had the Cebu condo slump in it: empty showrooms in Manila News, paperwork for British pensioners in the London Prat (at https://prat.uk/cebu-estate-agents-demand-character-references/) and long showings in Bohiney. More where that came from: prat.uk and bohiney.com.
Note: Philippine authorities are examining unproven allegations about Thomas Markle Sr., who lived in Cebu until earlier this year, as GMA News and the Guardian have reported. No charges have been filed. Child protection is a serious matter; the jokes here are about a property market and the paperwork.
For the lighter side of the news, try The Daily Squib, and the rest of the lot at NewsThump, NewsBiscuit and The Daily Squib.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/cebu-realtor-cant-sell-beachfront-listings/