Geoff writes: a nice sunny day. The forecast was for it to be a bit too windy to fly, so we spent the morning doing various jobs, including some stuff for the LMSC AGM tomorrow night; then decided to go to archery, but, since it didn’t seem anywhere near as windy as forecast, put the gliders in, on the basis that we were driving past the Long Mynd anyway.

When we arrived at the Long Mynd, it seemed fine, a bit off to the north, but not too much, and easily paraglidable. So we waited a few minutes to see what would happen, and it quickly went more north, and picked up slightly. Had it stayed on we almost certainly would have flown, though we heard that Long Mountain – a site which is usually fine in strong winds – was more or less blown out. I’m pretty sure, though, had we been at the Long Mynd earlier, when it was a bit more westerly, we would have flown.

So we went to archery, where as usual the people there were incredibly helpful, helping Judith set up her new bow properly, lending me a more powerful one, etc. So a very pleasant few hours. And we haven’t quite forgotten everything from last year.

The wind did continue to pick up, and lots of wave bars appeared, so we did the right thing by not hanging around the Long Mynd on the off-chance it would drop.

And tonight Michaela is coming for dinner.

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