Today looked promising, until the wind started picking up. I hadn’t seen this on any forecasts, so was a bit stumped as to what to do. Andrew said it was 15mph (and picking up) at Llangollen and Viv found it was howling on the Long Mynd while driving to Stretton. It was getting windier in our garden too, so we opted for Corndon, just so that we could have the flexibility of wind change and it’s close enough to home to be able to can it and do something else.

It was much lighter on top of the hill than at the bottom (that’s normal), but the promised cumulus never materialised. Throughout the day the inversion just got stronger and stronger. We were on the edge of the front all day, but with few thermals. It was flyable pretty much all day if you took off, landed, took off, but it wasn’t until after 3pm that Mark Begg got highish and made a dash over the back. Viv then did the same half an hour later. The couple of times I got high enough to look over the back I couldn’t see anything to go for. Just more haze and high cloud!

Michaela turned up to do some ground handing and then had her first fight in 8 months. Grounds to celebrate…

Llangollen or Sarn were the place to be. Actually, Yorkshire or the Lakes were the place to be, but what’s new?

See photos of today.

See David McKenzie’s video of us thermalling today.

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