This *#@$~% awful weather!

All this week I’ve been expecting a weather window of at least two days, tomorrow and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday, in which to get in some flying in the Savannah and then to ferry it across to Malbec. But it now looks, almost incredibly, as though those hopes could well be dashed!

It’s extraordinary how the weather seems to be changing, and always it seems for the worse, at the drop of a hat. It now looks as though, depending on which forecast you go for, that not only could that window disappear but that we could also be in for yet another period of several days of continuous rain!

I now realise that I could have done it yesterday except that I need a lift back to Galinat from Malbec to pick up my car and Wim wasn’t around to assist. But I then found when I dropped into Malbec that Victor, who I thought had gone away, is still around so could have helped me out. And not only that, but I also realised too late that if I’d dropped my bike over at Malbec first, I could have ridden it back as most of the route is downhill from Malbec with just a shortish steep climb in the latter stages of the route back up to the airfield at Galinat.

Today was forecast as being miserable and wet and has indeed turned out that way, albeit after quite a nice start. But by late morning some really thick cloud rolled in bringing rain later and also making it really gloomy and cold.

This is definitely the worst Spring that I can remember since arriving in France and made even more frustrating in that I have not just one, but two aircraft insured and ready to fly, but grounded because of the weather. When will it ever end?