I arrived mid afternoon at Witchie. Turned out Derek was there already but didn't spot him straight away. Looked up and a new colour of a finned wing emerged in the sky!

  Sat morning and feeling good, an easy lazy morning for me. The windy day was forecast to drop away in the afternoon, and it did. A short drive round to our usual N/E site Bridend.  Derek Traynor our newest member was already setting up on top and was flying around nicely on his Sigma 8 just as Tim and myself were getting near the top after a determined walk up...good effort Tim.

During the week, the weekend was looking like it would be flyable.
As Saturday dawned it looked borderline for flying but that was OK as I couldn't get out!

Sunday (Mothers day) was not looking that brilliant a day for flying. Quite a lot of wind forecast but bridgend might have been OK.
Tommy has been gibbering about the dunes south of Berwick for some time so a plan was quickly formed to head in that direction and check them out.

January's weather was not so good for flying so when the forecast started to look good for saturday I was starting to get a bit excited. This was not helped by a busy week at work and the occasional txt message from Tommy telling me how good it had been up at the moorfoots on both monday and wednesday!

Friday night came.. and the forecast had  indications of some high level winds, Dampening the enthusiasm slightly but a plan was starting to come together.

Stuart hoochy was heading over to Tommy's from colvend and would be passing through lockerbie so I grabbed a lift (after filling the car up with tandem and solo kit). Forecasts were mixed. Looked too west for the Moorfoots, strong upper winds made it sound like Bodesbeck was out and WNW to NW (with possibly a bit of sw too!) meant we had a bit of a tricky site choice for the day. Sundhope Heights covers this direction and although it's a bit of a walk up it gives a nice fly down if things are not so good.