Andrew Craig
@andrewcraig.bsky.social
Co-editor of Head In The Clouds: The Best Stories From 50 Years of Free Flying. Get it from xcmag.com or your local bookshop. Paraglider pilot, cyclist. Krypton Factor champion 1992, twice Mastermind semifinalist, winner on The Chase. Former BBC journalist
And the best of all is missing: In Which We Serve.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
And the best of all is missing: In Which We Serve.
Drop you as a New Wave album cover here
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Drop you as a New Wave album cover here
My friend Nik Valiris took this picture of me flying over the Alton Barnes white horse today. A beautiful autumn afternoon in the Vale of Pewsey.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My friend Nik Valiris took this picture of me flying over the Alton Barnes white horse today. A beautiful autumn afternoon in the Vale of Pewsey.
A pleasant, if chilly, afternoon's flying at Milk Hill White Horse, after a wait for the wind.
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A pleasant, if chilly, afternoon's flying at Milk Hill White Horse, after a wait for the wind.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
My brother David in his new camper van on a stormy night on the Marlborough Downs.
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My brother David in his new camper van on a stormy night on the Marlborough Downs.
It looks to me as if navigating with one of these must have been staggeringly difficult.
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It looks to me as if navigating with one of these must have been staggeringly difficult.
The first leader of independent Sudan. Arab and black.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The first leader of independent Sudan. Arab and black.
They've used the right picture!
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
They've used the right picture!
Mr Mamdani, will you condemn the 1970s English soft-porn magazine Parade?
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mr Mamdani, will you condemn the 1970s English soft-porn magazine Parade?
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social One of your country cousins standing watch over the River Chelmer.
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social One of your country cousins standing watch over the River Chelmer.
I've stayed in Travelodges with worse views.
October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've stayed in Travelodges with worse views.
I don't know hold old this picture is. It's not too outrageous that the artist thought Ben Macdui was higher than Ben Nevis - but what had he or she been smoking to think there was a four thousand foot mountain in Shetland?
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don't know hold old this picture is. It's not too outrageous that the artist thought Ben Macdui was higher than Ben Nevis - but what had he or she been smoking to think there was a four thousand foot mountain in Shetland?
Jonty Hitchman lands at Pandy after a two-day autumn flying expedition.
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Jonty Hitchman lands at Pandy after a two-day autumn flying expedition.
A pleasant autumn 25k from Pandy to Abergavenny. It was spicy at first, but mellowed out nicely.
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A pleasant autumn 25k from Pandy to Abergavenny. It was spicy at first, but mellowed out nicely.
50k in September is always a bonus! Milk Hill to near Theale. Back by train to Newbury and then Pewsey. Nice day out.
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
50k in September is always a bonus! Milk Hill to near Theale. Back by train to Newbury and then Pewsey. Nice day out.
I'm not sure where you're seeing that 17.1 figure. This Met Office document shows the UK mean temperature for summer 2018 as just below 16 degrees.
August 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm not sure where you're seeing that 17.1 figure. This Met Office document shows the UK mean temperature for summer 2018 as just below 16 degrees.
"And now, a man with three bottoms."
August 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"And now, a man with three bottoms."
It's got wheels, and a big hopper on top. Ploughs don't have that.
August 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It's got wheels, and a big hopper on top. Ploughs don't have that.
42 km from Combe Gibbet to Medstead. Very pleasant.
August 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
42 km from Combe Gibbet to Medstead. Very pleasant.