Geoff writes: having made a big mistake yesterday not going to the Malverns, because it was forecast windy and going SE, I thought today – on the same forecast – I would go – which was also a big mistake, because this time it did go SE. As I arrived at the Malverns, someone was walking down saying it was too far south, and no-one else was there anyway. Following a detour via Castlemorton – no-one there either! – I went back to Corndon, under an improving sky, which boded very well for XCs off the SE face there. I arrived to see Graeme landing, and Dave Broughton was also there, about to launch.

Graeme did say, as I was walking over, that some rain showers were forecast, but I said no chance! A few minutes after arriving at launch, the epic sky over-developed, and there were some really big, black, clouds, threatening rain, or at least very nasty lift. After chatting a while under a worsening sky, I gave up, and went to archery – where it did, in fact, rain for a while.

Oh well, that’s two days in a row messed up through bad decisions. Really, I should have gone to Bache (SSE), early. Hopefully, I will get it right tomorrow at the Mynd – and that is likely to be the last chance for a while as rain is coming in.

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