Questions the counter answers daily

Everywhere the post reaches, rolled in reed paper, from $12. A kite in a pine box travels dearer and arrives happier.

Yes, but mind the spray line: salt dries a line stiff and a stiff line frays. Wipe the line down after sea flying; the works does it with a chamois and a grumble.

Nothing yet. Sideways flight is a tail, a spar or a bridle question, in that order. Send a photograph of the kite standing still and we'll say which.

Since 1989, gladly. No kite turned away for being badly loved; some are turned away for being beyond cloth, and we'll say who we'd send those to.

Not the Morrigan, and not because of danger: it argues back and children take it personally. The Petrel is theirs; the Kestrel is the family compromise.

Flying. The whole floor flies on Mondays. This has been in the staff contract since 1962 and morale is evidence.

Really free. The donation tin funds the tea, and the tea funds the conversations that become the journal.

Saturdays, on the workshop tour that follows First Flight at 3. Otherwise the floor keeps its rhythm; you can hear the machines from the shop and that is half the music.