It poured when we woke up, but the forecast was for improving weather with an outside chance of flying as long as you waited long enough. Eddie and Bernard didn’t. They only sat on the Long Mynd for about three hours which was nowhere near the required stamina.

We worked this morning and then went out to do archery when it was only howling, but no longer raining. (If you’re sick of my moaning about the weather, think of poor Geoff, he gets this all day long!). Archery was good although I didn’t manage to perfect the techniques Brenda showed me last week. I know this because I have a big fat blister on my index finger.

Then back home over the Long Mynd but it was still too windy. At six o’clock Wayne called for us and we tootled back up the hill and rigged Geoff’s hang glider. It was way, way too windy for a PG but Gordon, Scott and James also came out to have a parawait. The hangies had a nice time of it and we were eventually rewarded for our patience with a nice flight at 8pm. Of course I had to end it by getting dragged through every piece of sheep shit on the Long Mynd. I smell like something at the bottom of our compost bin!

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