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Friday, 2nd October 2009
Posted by Judith on 03 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Party, party, party..., Work
Work, work, work. I seem to be coming down with a cold again so was a bit under the weather. In the evening the LMSC babes (the female pilots) went out for a beer and boogie (it was weird to see them in makeup and high heels rather than flying suits). I came home after the pub because I didn’t feel up to the bopping. Not like me to miss out on dancing! It was a fun night out though, and we must do it again. Stupidly, I didn’t take any pictures!
Wednesday, 30th September 2009
Posted by Judith on 30 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Work
Flyable on the Mynd all day, but we didn’t go. Too many online/telephone meetings and work for the conferences and preparations for the departure. We’d normally be gone by this time (we haven’t been in the UK in October for years), and it’s strange to be here in our more work intense period of the year. Still, lots of work now means flying tomorrow and trips to the beach, Berga and Ager when we get back to Spain.
Tuesday, 29th September 2009
Posted by Geoff on 29 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Archery, Flying, Work
Geoff writes: a fun and varied day, starting with lots of work for the various online conferences we are in the middle of organising. Then in the afternoon, we realised it was flyable, and loaded up the van with my hang glider and the paragliders, and the archery stuff. Drove to the Long Mynd, decided it was very wavy, and not really an XC day, so went to do some shooting – first time for a couple of weeks, and we need the practise. Then drove back over the Long Mynd and had a nice evening flight, going to both ends of the ridge in light wave. Great views, you could see the Malverns.
And finally, off to the Powis Arms in Lydbury North to speak to the landlord, Gerry, about various events the Long Mynd Soaring Club are running there. He is incredibly helpful, and very flyer-friendly!
Monday, 28th September 2009
Posted by Judith on 29 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Trying, but failing, to fly, Work
We really need to catch up with some work and jobs for going away, so although it was flyable in the morning, we ignored that fact and kept our heads down. It got breezy in the afternoon and flyable for hang gliders but I was feeling under the weather and decided to keep on working. By the evening though we needed to get out for some fresh air. We could see a glider layed out on the Long Mynd, but it was windy in our garden and there was a huge wave bar stretched across the sky. On phoning Rich, he said there was nil wind on top. He couldn’t see the wave bar – from below it just looked like cloud. I took a couple of pics just to show people what was going on from a distance and then we headed up the hill.
Two people flew, but by the time we got up there the wind had picked up again. You could see the wave bars setting up ahead and the sky in the distance was just amazing. You could see the clouds from above as if you were in an aeroplane. I don’t really trust wave on a paraglider, so am usually very cautious in those conditions, so decided against it. A guy on an XC2 flew later though cruising along the ridge in the sunset.
Lovely dinner with Michaela later and then excellent music night at the Bridges. So good, we booked another act for the party next year.
Wednesday, 23rd September 2009
Posted by Judith on 24 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Work
We knuckled down to catching up with work and washing. It was flyable off and on all day and we were going to go out, but the rain, then the wind, then the cold and dark put us off.
Nice evening with Tammy at the flicks.
Monday, 14th September 2009
Posted by Geoff on 14 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Work
We had a work meeting this morning which took a little longer than anticipated and then it was a matter of catching up with the work we failed to do last week. It was flyable on Corndon and Mick, for example, flew for three hours, but it was a grey day and cold too, so we stayed in and did jobs, as we may head off north for the better weather for the rest of the week.
Tuesday, 8th September 2009
Posted by Geoff on 08 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: a wet and windy day, but we did get a lot of work done, which is good since the rest of the week looks quite nice – flyable probably, and if not flyable because it might be too windy, should still be warm and sunny. About time too.