{"id":3093,"date":"2010-06-29T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:39:06","slug":"tuesday-29th-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 29th June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes:<\/strong> a bugger of a day. Our van has been up for sale, and someone phoned me, said he definitely wanted it (even though he hadn’t seen it, which I thought was a bit odd), we negotiated a price, and a time to pick it up – and the only time he could do it was 4.30 today. Oh well, I can sacrifice one XC day to sell the van (I thought).<\/p>\n

The hang gliding comp was at the Mynd again, so I decided to go and fly the hangie. I was in no rush, knowing I couldn’t go XC, and arrived just as the window opened, launching as soon as I rigged,\u00a0by which time most, though not all, the competitors had left. And it was a really good day. Rough, windy, but very strong thermals. very, very\u00a0easy to climb out. The goal was 103km, in Gloucestershire, Moreton-in-the-Marsh I think. I haven’t been XC on the HG for a couple of years, and it was clearly blown out all today for PGs, so I probably would have gone – not least, because flying with 60 or so other HGs, and going XC would be fun. But I couldn’t, so flew for a while, then landed, and went to the train station to meet the man who was definitely going to buy the van. The conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n

“Oh. It’s not got\u00a0windows. I thought it had windows.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“No, it’s a van, it doesn’t have windows.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. I was expecting windows.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“No,\u00a0it’s a van, it was advertised as a van, you said the word ‘van’ when you phoned me about it.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. It’s not got\u00a0any windows.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“NO. IT’S A VAN!”<\/p>\n

He did test drive it, then tried to beat me down on the already agreed price. \u00a0I was getting increasingly annoyed by this time, so we gave up, and left him to catch the train back.<\/p>\n

Such a waste of a good XC day – at least 12 have got into goal, maybe more. Apart from the accident on Sunday, they are having a great competition. Tomorrow looks good too, certainly taskable, though a lot lighter winds. We will be out flying on the PGs, after our morning phone meeting for our November conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes: a bugger of a day. Our van has been up for sale, and someone phoned me, said he definitely wanted it (even though he hadn’t seen it, which I thought was a bit odd), we negotiated a price, and a time to pick it up – and the only time he could do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/3093"}],"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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}