{"id":3320,"date":"2010-07-29T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2010-07-29T22:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:58:50","slug":"thursday-29th-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 29th July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/290710.jpg\" title=\"Flying the Lawley.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> I spent the morning sorting out issues around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.565501&#038;mylong=-3.025278&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of Corndon.&#038;myvideo=corndon_e.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Corndon<\/a>, doing some club work. This took me longer than I expected, and involved visiting a horse breeder underneath <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.565501&#038;mylong=-3.025278&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of Corndon.&#038;myvideo=corndon_e.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Corndon<\/a>. Judith and David worked on another webcast, this time on thermalling.<\/p>\n<p>Although very cloudy, we thought it was flyable, but a bit too northerly for 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>. People were flying there, but not doing very well, so we went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.577367&#038;mylong=-2.741953&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Lawley.&#038;myvideo=lawley.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Lawley<\/a>, which was more or less bang on, and, in spite of the cloud, we had a good day. David and I went XC, though not very far, around 15km, with a very low base. (Graeme also did a short XC before we arrived). Judith was still a bit ill, she flew but didn&#8217;t want to get too high because being a bit bunged up, the pressure hurt her ears. So she landed and retrieved us.<\/p>\n<p>As we got back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.577367&#038;mylong=-2.741953&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Lawley.&#038;myvideo=lawley.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Lawley<\/a>, after two pubs and some food, Dave JH and Steve Dean had just landed, having flown for some hours. So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.577367&#038;mylong=-2.741953&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Lawley.&#038;myvideo=lawley.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Lawley<\/a> was definitely the place to be in this area. We saw Rich when driving back over 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>, and he had struggled to get a couple of hundred above launch; and Nigel Lasseter in his sailplane had worried about having to bottom\u00a0 land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/290710\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: I spent the morning sorting out issues around Corndon, doing some club work. This took me longer than I expected, and involved visiting a horse breeder underneath Corndon. Judith and David worked on another webcast, this time on thermalling. Although very cloudy, we thought it was flyable, but a bit too northerly for [&hellip;]<\/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\/3320"}],"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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}