Realising that whether flying power or gliders, whether upright or upside down, whether under clear skies or 8/8ths that I am a lucky sod & am living in a truley green & pleasant land.
Thing - like you I've only used the radio to an ATC unit twice in my xx years of flying gliders, once to tell Kinloss that I was in their overhead climbing through 20,000ft then again to tell them I was descending through 24,000ft on my way back to Easterton
