Category Archives: Patch News

We had some lovely summery weather during May, and in particular it was ideal for the first flights of this year’s club models on 6th May. The field remained bullock free for most of the month partly due to the Sustainability … Continue reading →

What a difference a month makes, in last month’s Patch News I included photos of several of us flying in a snow storm and exactly a month later I took this one of 1066 knife-edging across the patch in clear … Continue reading →

Wow, this month seems to have flown by, we’ve had the meteorological spring (1 March), the astronomical spring (20 March) and the start of British Summer Time (25 March). We’ve had a few cracking spring days but also some very … Continue reading →

February certainly sorted the men from the boys, for much of the month the weather was very cold and very windy. We did also had a few reasonable days when it was just plain cold, days that seemed almost balmy without … Continue reading →

January has been and gone already and we’re rushing towards spring, it will soon be time for all those winter projects to emerge. This spring that will include the new club model that you’re all busy building. You are building … Continue reading →

Happy New Year to you all, hope you’ve had a great time over the holiday. That’s it for another year, all over now, nothing to see here…  Did Father Christmas bring you some modelling/interesting/amusing presents for Christmas? If so, remember to … Continue reading →

Aargh! I said last month that the bullocks had gone, the patch was recovering, and we should have a decent patch over the winter months. I was wrong, we’ve now been joined by some fresh new ones. This lot are … Continue reading →

Well this Patch News is going to be a bit of an odd one due to holidays. I’ll start with some bits I missed at the end of August but I won’t be able to include the second half of … Continue reading →

August saw the return of the bullocks, and happily, their departure as well. We had some pretty wet weather while they were in the field and they didn’t do the patch any favours but it’s nothing like as bad as … Continue reading →