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Wednesday, 21st July 2010
Posted by Judith on 22 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Work
The forecast threatened storms from lunchtime, so Graeme had an early flight on the Mynd before it went too far south. Mick, Glyn and Martin decided to try Shepherd’s Tump, but the report came back of not very good flying and then getting drenched.
We decided to try to do some archery and driving across the Mynd, we could see extensive rain out to the west and east. We managed about 30 minutes of shooting when the heavens opened and we threw everything in the boot of the car and after another 20 minutes, we decided it probably wouldn’t stop raining for long enough spells to make it worthwhile, so we went home to work. I’ve been a bit lazy recently, but have a new resolution that I will do three things on my ‘to do’ list everyday, until they’re all done. So far so good. I also went to the gym for the first time in ages and forgot how much I enjoy the running. Might go again tomorrow when it rains again…
Geoff writes: Facebook hit 500 million users today. I’m not one of them.
Tuesday, 20th July 2010
Posted by Judith on 21 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Work
The worst day this summer, possibly. It rained nearly continuously and the Met Office had a weather warning for our area until the evening. It was Geoff’s birthday and it would have been nice to do something outside, but it wasn’t even worth contemplating. We did have two phone meetings during the day and so we worked and will save celebrating for a more pleasant day.
Thursday, 15th July 2010
Posted by Judith on 15 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Webcasts, Work
A miserable, autumnal day with gales and heavy rain. Too depressing to set foot out of the house, so I finished off the remaining work on the next webcast, which is available now. David and I spent many hours doing the preparation and recording, so I hope lots of people find it useful and informative!
Then on to start work on the next Supporting Deaf People online conference. The dates are set for next February and I have come up with the first theme, hopefully working closely with the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters . It always takes me a while to get going, but once I do, I get really excited about the next conference. Not sure I can top the swearing and profanity workshop of last year, but I’m sure I can dig up something controversial to replace it.
Wednesday, 14th July 2010
Posted by Judith on 14 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Webcasts, Work
The weekend was a busy one for producing resources, so after editing Mark’s brilliant RASP webcast yesterday, it’s now available in the webcast section of the blog. Then on to editing the next one, called Weather – a detailed look at one day, with David Thomson. It’s ready for approval, so should be available in the next day or so.
We also finally had some serious interest in the van and a guy from Coventry turned up tonight and bought it within a few minutes. His brother-in-law is a mad kite-buggyer and he raved about it so much, I’m seriously tempted to give it a go.
Tuesday, 13th July 2010
Posted by Judith on 14 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Work
The summer seems to have changed into its usual rainy July pattern, and the grey drizzle had us put the lights on all day in the house. Great working weather…
I quickly finished some of my club committee jobs before the meeting tonight, so I wouldn’t have to have them carried forward. Then I edited the RASP webcast I recorded with Mark Riches on Monday and it will be ready for release shortly. Meeting went well in the evening, as everything seems to be going well with the LMSC at the moment. Afterward we went for a pint with John and Angela, who are being comp stragglers and extending their hols in not-so-sunny Shropshire.
Monday, 12th July 2010
Posted by Geoff on 12 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: the forecast was quite poor, and the reality was worse than the forecast, cloudy and drizzly all day. The BP Cup did hope to get a task this afternoon, but gave up at 12, when it was clear the weather wasn’t going to improve. So out of the four days, they managed just one task – a shame, given how good the weather has been in the UK until relatively recently. The top three, decided on just the one task, were:
1: Tony Spirling
2: Richard Butterworth
3: Malcolm Davies.
Judith spent the day doing a couple of web casts – like the podcasts, but with visuals. These will be released shortly, after editing, and are, appropriately enough, both weather related.
And I did some work.
Looks bad the rest of the week too, so plenty of time to catch up on our outstanding jobs.
Tuesday, 6th July 2010
Posted by Judith on 07 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Work
Down south was obviously the place to be today. We looked around for other places to travel to fly, but with a physio appointment at 9.30am, the options were limited. By the time I came home, the sky had clouded over and the wind was picking up, so we settled to a day of work. By 2pm there was a little rain, but the sky cleared again, so we went to do some archery. Church Stretton seemed to be in a small sunny hole, so it was all very pleasant.