{"id":2505,"date":"2010-04-20T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2010-04-23T19:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:39:47","slug":"tuesday-20th-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 20th April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/200410.jpg\" title=\"Horses on the Mynd on the way home.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> a nice sunny day. The forecast was for it to be a bit too windy to fly, so we spent the morning doing various jobs, including some stuff for the LMSC AGM tomorrow night; then decided to go to archery, but, since it didn&#8217;t seem anywhere near as windy as forecast, put the gliders in, on the basis that we were driving past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a>, it seemed fine, a bit off to the north, but not too much, and easily paraglidable. So we waited a few minutes to see what would happen, and it quickly went more north, and picked up slightly. Had it stayed on we almost certainly would have flown, though we heard that Long Mountain &#8211; a site which is usually fine in strong winds &#8211; was more or less blown out. I&#8217;m pretty sure, though, had we been at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a> earlier, when it was a bit more westerly, we would have flown.<\/p>\n<p>So we went to archery, where as usual the people there were incredibly helpful, helping Judith set up her new bow properly, lending me a more powerful one, etc. So a very pleasant few hours. And we haven&#8217;t quite forgotten everything from last year.<\/p>\n<p>The wind did continue to pick up, and lots of wave bars appeared, so we did the right thing by not hanging around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a> on the off-chance it would drop.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight Michaela is coming for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: a nice sunny day. The forecast was for it to be a bit too windy to fly, so we spent the morning doing various jobs, including some stuff for the LMSC AGM tomorrow night; then decided to go to archery, but, since it didn&#8217;t seem anywhere near as windy as forecast, put the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}