Down to the sea again

It's the Wales Air Show this weekend. First one since before Covid.

The Australia versus England rugby game was on this morning but I skipped out before the end to go went down to the sea front to watch the Red Arrows at 12.50.

"Just a minute," I thought. "The Red Arrows have changed."

I asked a man who checked his phone app and said the RA would be on at - then I got confused because he said several different times. I decided it wasn't worth going home and coming back again so I sat and watched the skies.

I have to say - with apologies to all flying fans - when you've seen one aeroplane fly past you've seen them all. So I made these while I was waiting for the main attraction.

The beach, which had been only moderately busy when I arrived was filing up rapidly; obviously everyone else got the change of time memo. Anyway an hour after I expected the Red Arrows arrived.

They are really quite amazing although I think their display was less impressive than previous years. Husband suggested the low clouds might have caused them to cut it short.

I usually come away having seen them wanting to be a Red Arrow pilot but today I decided flying upside down, even for a short while, might disagree with me. So I won't be applying.

For information, England lost their game. Wales play current World Champions, South Africa, in South Africa later this afternoon and are very much the under-dogs.

P.S. Eight days ago I posted an important letter. I've not had a reply yet. Just recording these details for my information.