The forecast was for thunderstorms from lunch time onwards. We went to Corndon at 11am, but it was very hazy and we would not have been able to see what was above us had we gone XC. Given the forecast of worsening conditions, we canned the day and went to Church Stretton to watch the archery competition. There were 54 archers shooting in a long row, then a change over of another 54 before they collected their arrows. It was really interesting to watch different techniques of pull ups, etc. Arrows were flying off in very quick succession all along the field when Geoff turned around and said “You wouldn’t want to be a streaker at an archery comp!”.

The clouds were getting very big all afternoon and were very close together too, but we got a call later to say Martin K. had flown at Corndon and he said it was pretty horrible conditions. It started storming here at 6pm.

We later found out that someone flew just over 100km from the Malverns (where we had considered going) in this direction past Sarn to Carno, landing around 4.00pm. Oh well, I don’t think we would have wanted to be in the sky with such big clouds even if we had gone to the Malverns. We’d probably have launched, got in big lift, got scared and landed.

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