Decided that I'd better at least post something in April since it's almost May! All things being equal we've had a pretty gorgeous month for bbq's and sitting in beer gardens. So much for April showers, although for the last few days the weather has proved to be rather unpredictable.

Those two trips to Guernsey went rather well, although the weather was definitely better on the second visit. Unfortunately there are no more of those coming up but at least that means I'll be getting back to normal work and no more messing about. I've got a whole heap of photo's taken over the last few months, although the quality of them varies between kak and alright. If any prove to be worthy of DA I'll post them back. Downside is I'm in Wales at the moment with the laptop and most of the pictures are on the hd back home.

Recent events... hmm... couple of birthdays gone by for each of my folks so been eating out more than usual. There was a fire in the hotel on my final night in Guernsey, so in the end me and the cabin crew couldn't do our double Gatwick and back since the fire was near our rooms and by the time the fire was out it was far too late and our uniforms stank of smoke. I took a picture of the damage, and it was very little considering how much smoke there was. Just remember: If a fire alarm goes off, listen to it and get out. I opened my door to a wall of smoke, a worrying red glow and a fireman bashing doors down to my right! Time to go then!

Over the last few days I've fitted one of these to my model glider: [link] . In a nutshell it's a cheap 720p hd camcorder with a pretty good video quality. The first flight with the camcorder running was yesterday morning and the results are pretty cool! It shows up how unstable my glider is in pitch though (and noisy!), so I've got some work to do on it (it's hard to tell from the ground). Unfortunately the video is just shy of 500mb for 15 minutes, *and* it's an awkward h.264 codec so getting it on Vimeo/Youtube will be a challenge. I've downloaded a freeware video editor/transcoder called Wax ([link]) to try and deal with it.

Right now I'm in Talgarth on leave to do some gliding, and I'm sat in the clubhouse as they have wireless internet. Unfortunately looking out of the window it's rather wet, so it's anyones guess if anything will happen today. Some of the membership have just finished putting new suspension on the tug, which sounds like it was a pretty serious piece of work. I'll linger here today and probably tomorrow. There's a place about 90 minutes away called Rhosilli which sounds pretty nice so, if today convinces me that it's a write-off, I may head over there since it's sunny on the coast now. The air just comes inland and immediately turns showery. Wait I can see a blue bit in the sky lol...

That's about it. I hope you're all well and thanks for reading!

Graeme