"Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the sky on laughter!" Dead right he has. Wish he'd taken a sofa instead of an armchair because I would have been right there with him. Balloon man Jonathan Trappe, 36, crossed the Channel in chair held up by balloons. Beautiful, brightly coloured ones at that.
He took a load of techie stuff to stay safe and then sat back to watch the view. And listen. Because he could hear the waves from 1.000 feet. How awesome is that? When war pilot John Magee was writing his famous poem High Flight he knew the score. "Done a hundred things you have not dreamed of," he said, and even though he died, aged only 19, he was right.
Balloon man Jonathan said: "It's really only about dreams. Nobody who looks at what we put into it thinks we are crazy." Insane? Absolutely! I'd have been laughing like a lunatic all the way for the stupendous, stonking, fun of it. Still not entirely sure how you get down. Presumably involves a spud gun and a fair-sized tat. Pick them off one at a time until touchdown. It's not rocket science but I've got bagsies on the first settee in space.
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