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Tuesday, 17th August 2010
Posted by Geoff on 18 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: a day with a poor forecast, spent catching up on work. Actually, there was less rain than we expected, and it was certainly flyable at Long Mountain in the evening, if not during the day. But useful to catch up with work.
Thursday, 12th August 2010
Posted by Geoff on 12 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Webcasts, Work
Geoff writes: a windy, cloudy day. We did some work around our next conference; and some LMSC stuff, including a newsletter, and the latest multimedia site guide, for Corndon. We’ve been intending to do this for a while, and this week was a good time to do it, since the forecast for the weekend is NE, and there’s a competition here (the BCC, not the BP Cup, which is in Snowdonia) which is likely to go to Corndon.
Tuesday, 10th August 2010
Posted by Geoff on 10 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Flying, Work
Geoff writes: stunning XC sky, definitely a day for lots of paragliders doing 100km plus from the Long Mynd, except that for most of the day it was way too windy for them. I had a fun time on the hang glider.
Low down, it was fairly bumpy, with lots of very broken thermals. Every so often you would get a really strong thermal which overcame the met wind, and you screamed up. I didn’t bother going XC, but it was certainly possible, and easy to go on a hang glider. I’ve got a bit more nervous about landing out on the hang glider, having got used to the incredible easiness of landing out on a paraglider, where you can land it almost anywhere – whereas the hang glider, you need a nice flat field, preferably with no high crops in it and a clean approach.
One bit of excitement today was seeing a sailplane badly mess up his approach and crash by the road, fortunately with no injuries, except a written off glider. He was lucky there were no tourists around, and the two horses nearby weren’t spooked too much by it. It was quite dramatic.
After a couple of flights, and early evening, we decided not to bother waiting to fly the PGs, and went and did some shooting at the archery field.
Oh, and we were out a bit late today – a nearly four hour phone meeting for our next conference in the morning, which delayed us somewhat.
Monday, 9th August 2010
Posted by Judith on 10 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Work
A bit of an action packed day. Actually not much action, but a lot of dashing about. We were going to do archery before the front came in, but it got cloudy early on, so we thought we would wait until the sunshine after the rain, except they changed the forecast and there wasn’t going to be any sun after all. We worked on various things, including me starting to re-format our books so they can be read on the new ebook readers. Kindles don’t accept PDF, so it’s a big HTML reformatting job.
Then off to Bishop’s Castle to do some errands and then up and a walk round Corndon to take photos for the next multimedia site guide. By the time we had got up there, it was sunny, but howling. Next archery, then a drink with John and Lyn to talk about committee stuff and then music night at the Bridges. Phew!
Monday, 2nd August 2010
Posted by Judith on 03 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Trying, but failing, to fly, Work
Everyone was raving about the forecast in the run-up to today, since there was possibly some sunshine around. As the day got closer it was looking less promising, and I suspected a similar day to Sunday, with lots of cloud. The actual forecast was the catch-all “sunny intervals”. The actual weather was grey skies all day.
Our choice for the day was to go flying or go on holiday, so we decided to wait until lunchtime and see if it would develop into a flying day. I edited another webcast and Geoff did some work and the sky stayed cloudy, but then Kai called to say he had gone XC from the Wrekin and it was really thermic. So we got our stuff and rushed out. On the Long Mynd it was too far off, so we headed for the Lawley. Once we were over the top of the Long Mynd I still couldn’t see the ‘good sky’ Kai had talked about. It was wall-to-wall grey cloud, with only a very few embedded cumulus.
There didn’t seem to be much wind around, but since the Lawley gets blown out really easily, we assumed there would be plenty of breeze. Wrong. We walked up to the third pimple and it was still only 4mph and every bird within 2 miles was flapping. The fields below still haven’t been cut, so the landing options are limited, so in the end we conceded that it just wasn’t flyable and went off to archery instead.
Driving back over the Long Mynd we found Rich, Wayne and Ali and a strong westerly breeze. Rich said it was rough, so we just carried on home. Just not our day!
Tuesday, 27th July 2010
Posted by Geoff on 28 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Flying, Work
Geoff writes: windy most of the day, very cloudy early on, but gradually clearing. After working in the morning, I went to help clear up after the archery competition, then flew the paraglider in the evening. It was pretty windy, but seemed to be dropping. I flew for a while, then when I decided to top land, the wind seemed to be picking up a lot, so I eventually went down to the bottom landing, as did Graeme. After being retrieved by Wayne, it seemed it had picked up on top, gusting at one point to 27mph. A couple of others stayed in the air, flying, I guess, till it dropped and they could top land. Not an XC day- and in fact, none posted in the league for anywhere in the country. July really is pretty rubbish, after an excellent first part of the year.
Thursday, 22nd July 2010
Posted by Judith on 22 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Another rainy day. The showers started earlier than expected and lasted longer too. Although some people were hopeful for an evening flight, it wasn’t to be. It was still raining on the Mynd at 9pm.
We worked, edited podcasts and obsessively watched the weather for the weekend developing. Fingers crossed…