Rich plays with this glider.The forecast today was for a muggy day with probable showers from lunch time. SE, turning more S. We went to Church Stretton to help set up for a big FITA archery competition shoot at the school field. We had to measure out shooting lines and I was angling for the line painting job, which I got, but which turned out to be far less glamorous than I thought. For some reason I had expected it to involve some kind of golf cart thing, rather than just pushing a wet bucket round the field and getting my boots white.

By lunch time the sky started to look doable, so we made our excuses and rushed back home. On the west side of the Mynd the sky looked rubbish! Grey, hazy and it looked like it might rain. Andrew D. called to say it was flyable on the Gyrn, but overcast, so we canned the flying and went for a walk instead. We walked from Snailbeach to the edge of the Stiperstones and back. Shame it was so hazy, as the views would have been lovely. It seemed very SW on the walk, and Andrew gave us an update to say it had turned W and then N at the Gyrn. Right enough, when we got home, someone was taking off from the Long Mynd. He got about 300′ ATO, so we sent out a 3jam and headed to the hill. It was way off to the S, but several people flew, although we didn’t bother. Too hungry!

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