{"id":1528,"date":"2009-12-11T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2009-12-11T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:36:23","slug":"friday-11th-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 11th December 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/111209.jpg\" title=\"Mike flies St. Brigida.\" \/>Warm (20\u00b0C) and sunny today, although this is the last in the spell. From tomorrow we&#8217;re in for a 5\u00b0C drop. Today should have been good on paper &#8211; high pressure and Tramuntana, but it was very stable. We headed out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&#038;mylong=2.612554&#038;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a> and saw a French white pick-up there. It could only be Mike Cluer. Really nice to see him. We haven&#8217;t seen each other since March, so there was plenty to catch up on. Geoff and Nani flew, but it was weak with little wind or thermals.<\/p>\n<p>More and more people arrived and it seems that Friday is now a popular day to come out. Everyone got off and had a nice time, top landing sporadically. As I was launching, I tripped over a rock and went sprawling, much to Albert&#8217;s amusement.  Once I had dusted myself down I had to wait until there was a good cycle again. Once in the air, I wasn&#8217;t flying very well and went down. Geoff persevered and got up and top landed again. <\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that the evening flying would be nice, but with the stable air, the wind in the valley turned north earlier than usual, so we didn&#8217;t bother and chatted to Mike some more. <\/p>\n<p>Off to Sicily tomorrow, so no blog for a few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/111209\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm (20\u00b0C) and sunny today, although this is the last in the spell. From tomorrow we&#8217;re in for a 5\u00b0C drop. Today should have been good on paper &#8211; high pressure and Tramuntana, but it was very stable. We headed out to Santa Brigida and saw a French white pick-up there. It could only be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}