A fruitless Christmas time?

Flying and December just do not seem to want to harmoniously walk hand in hand. The weather seems to pick the days when I am not in work to be at its worst. But, not to be put off by a stiff wind and dark looming skies I did manage to squeeze a few flights from victor alpha. An attempt to reach Carlisle on the 23rd December turned into nothing, when its was clear that the looming low level cloud around Lancaster would spell an end to VMC flying any further North of Kendal. Although this was a shame, it was half expected due to the prevailing conditions of the day, which saw scattered cloud lying at 1000ft agl over Barton. Similar conditions were met on Sunday 24th, when I took Sammy along with my brother Andrew up for his first experience in a light aircraft. A flight around the edge of Manchester airspace up to Rochdale and then over towards Leeds was again brought to an abrupt end due to low-level cloud hanging around the M62 valley. What was remarkable though, was that we even in the overcast sky I managed to find a large cloudless potion of sky to climb above 3000ft and see the tops of the clouds and a brief glimpse of the sunshine above. This fuelled my desire to become Instrument rated, so that this site would become more and more frequent on days like today.