Friday, 6th May 2011
Posted by Judith on 07 May 2011 at 11:26 am | Tagged as: Archery, Work
Another windy day with occasional showers forecast. These didn’t materialise until the evening, and if we hadn’t been working, Geoff could probably have had a hang gliding flight. Instead we had work meetings. It’s at this time of year when we sit down and map out the work year, planning times and dates of conferences and looking at what other work committments we want to undertake. By 3.30pm, we’d had enough of meetings and went outside into the sunshine to do some gardening, including finding a suitable tree limb for the groovy hammock chair my parents gave us a few years ago for Christmas.
After that we went to archery. I need to do a lot of work on my shoulder muscles…
The demise of the open mic night at the Bridges has left a big gap in our weekly social calendar, so I had a peek at the 31 Days in Shropshire website to see if we could see some of our favourite local bands elsewhere. To my delight, Blues Boy Dan was playing in Marton, so we went along to see him. We assumed that he would either start a bit late or that he would do two sets with a break in between, but he had started promptly at 8pm, so we missed nearly all of his songs. Still, he’s playing some other gigs in the area soon, so we’ll make the effort to arrive on time. He did do one of my favourites though… the Dirty Dishes song.
“There’s too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two … Well you got me wonderin’ baby who’s makin’ dirty dishes with you …”
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Hello both….which site would you have gone to with the hang glider?
Good question… we were debating what the wind direction actually was yesterday. Wendy Windblows was saying SSE, but the cloud drift was more SW. Since we dismissed the idea of going out, we didn’t really check further.
Had we gone out, we would have gone to Bache. Nice big bottom landing and various bowls to play in. Geoff and Wayne have flown it in SSW before and it takes through to SE, so most variations on S will be ok. The top landing isn’t the most user-fiendly (slopes slightly and deep heather), but it’s plenty big enough and less of a problem for a king posted glider.
If the top landing doesn’t appeal, the walk back up to the car isn’t that bad.
People don’t bother with Bache, because it is a big drive for most people. I think it’s a mistake. It’s a cracking site and great for hang gliders. Ask Jason and Tim. Last time they went they had fantastic flights.
See you on a hill soon, I hope.
J.
Thanks for the reply. Bache is definitely on my list of places to fly. I didn’t go there on Friday as I thought the forecast didn’t suit – but next time I will be ready for it. Cheers for the tips, and catch ya on the hill soon.