Everyone was raving about the forecast in the run-up to today, since there was possibly some sunshine around. As the day got closer it was looking less promising, and I suspected a similar day to Sunday, with lots of cloud. The actual forecast was the catch-all “sunny intervals”. The actual weather was grey skies all day.

Our choice for the day was to go flying or go on holiday, so we decided to wait until lunchtime and see if it would develop into a flying day. I edited another webcast and Geoff did some work and the sky stayed cloudy, but then Kai called to say he had gone XC from the Wrekin and it was really thermic. So we got our stuff and rushed out. On the Long Mynd it was too far off, so we headed for the Lawley. Once we were over the top of the Long Mynd I still couldn’t see the ‘good sky’ Kai had talked about. It was wall-to-wall grey cloud, with only a very few embedded cumulus.

There didn’t seem to be much wind around, but since the Lawley gets blown out really easily, we assumed there would be plenty of breeze. Wrong. We walked up to the third pimple and it was still only 4mph and every bird within 2 miles was flapping. The fields below still haven’t been cut, so the landing options are limited, so in the end we conceded that it just wasn’t flyable and went off to archery instead.

Driving back over the Long Mynd we found Rich, Wayne and Ali and a strong westerly breeze. Rich said it was rough, so we just carried on home. Just not our day!

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