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Name: Lynnie Hutchison
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Image Found: #123
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Location: Ketches lane, Danehill, East Sussex
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Distance travelled: 95Km
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Date found: 6 October 2005
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Found - 4 days after the launch
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Hi there
Sorry not to reply sooner, only have access to email at my pt work but
here
is info you would like;
I found image 123/200 in a field called great leg on my farm, Brickpits
organic farm, Ketches lane, Danehill, E Sussex, TN22 3RX, when I was
checking the field prior to moving the sheep in. I did not however find
the balloon so wonder if the image got caught in the hedge and pulled off.
I
don't have a digital camera so can't send you a picture of the spot or
the
sheep! and I have to confess to not being a fan of balloon releases.
Once you've nursed a sick sheep day and night with an inexplicable illness
that defies you and the vet only to loose it and find on post mortum
that it
had bits of balloon stuck blocking it's gut that's the sad image that
tends
to stick in your mind. However as sheep don't make a habit of chewing
rubbish and i'm sure charities make lots of money from balloon races
etc.,
hopefully the good outweighs the bad.
I hope you have some more replies from other who have found your balloons
Lynnie
We are sad about the loss and bad experience Lynnie had with other balloon
releases. We have asked her to let us know if the baloon was of plastic or
latex composition. As mentioned in the credits and info section of the site,
the balloons we used were made of latex, which is a bio-degradble substance
which can degrade at the same speed as an oak leaf. I suspect the balloons
in question were plastic.
Thanks for this marc i lost the first bit of your email it came through gobbledy goook but got the bit with the research quote so thanks, Its great to know that people are taking this sort of thing into account and certainly makes me feel better about the balloon not being found and worrying that i'd missed it somewhere in the field/hedge. I'm involved in raising funds for various charities but have always veered away from balloon releases but now would feel happy to suggest them given that we got the right sort of balloons so thanks for not dismissing my comments and explaining the difference, it certainly must have been a plastic balloon as it was still clearly distinguishable and given stomach acids etc., you would think that otherwise it would have been broken down.
Thanks again for this and I hope more than just this one gets found
Lynnie
