We flew about 16 launches on Saturday. The cloud was higher than it looked, though it was rather chilly! Indoors (and slightly warmer!) Phil Marks and Paul Armstrong were running an Instructors Ground School refresher course with lapsed Bidford and Shenington instructors. Mary provided soup and cake for the members, and Michael Bell did soup and baguettes for the course members so we all had an excellent lunch.
Tess
Nicola,
the daughter of Nick Saul, the owner of The Roebuck at Drayton invited Club
members to her 21st at the pub on Saturday night, and a gang of us went. We
believe 270 friends and family were invited and the building is not large and
so we were very snug. The pork roast was ready by 8.20 pm and was awesomely
delicioso. Friends of the Roebuck may be interested to learn that
Nikki is leaving Dad on Thursday to go off and take up a job as a ski chalet
maid.
On Sunday, we were discombobulated by the
wind. Andy and I took the first launch of the day in CC and then went off
for a 10:30am breakfast in Kineton. When we got back there was a struggle
with launching and after having to recover a chute from the N crop field [which
fell comfortably short of the Kart track itself], we decamped to the short hard
and it was all downhill until canopy misting stopped play