Take-off!

“Go on! I am sure you can do it, ” urged M and the official from the para-sailing school.
 
For once I dug my heels in.  No way was I going to be hoisted up by parachute over the sea six months after total knee replacement. 
 
Imagine if something had gone wrong and I had to explain to my surgeon in the Golden Jubilee hospital what I had been doing.
 
Instead I watched M take to the skies.