This is not what I planned, but it was ‘interesting’. We had planned on Rosemary taking her first flight since June last year as the weather was forecast to be reasonable with the winds dropping off about mid-day. We stated to take off just after mid day and Hotel Sierra seemed sluggish. This could be because recently I had only flown her solo with less than half full tanks, but I am a bit paranoid at the moment so I aborted the flight and asked Rosemary to go back to the club house while I did a trial circuit.
I was worrying too much as solo Hotel Sierra took off without a problem and the slugishness was the full up load. However at about 50′ I hit the gusting crosswind at, I would estimate, about 25 knots. This made the circuit a trifle ‘choppy’ 
The first approach and landing were not good, this is the highest crosswind I have tackled so far (11-15 knots on the ground) and I lost speed about 6 feet off the ground. I got it back but it wasn’t a pretty landing. I then decided that it was too choppy for Rosemary’s first flight since the accident so I went round for a couple more circuits.
The 2nd was much better so I went for a 3rd. On this one the wind had started to gust a lot more and I had to approach at 70 mph to keep good control, rather than my usual 55 mph). The landing was ‘good’ but I was dancing on the rudder pedals all the way down the runway. I must admit it did feel good to have landed in quite gusty conditions in a manner I was happy with.
After this, and as it felt as though a front was passing through, I felt I had pushed my luck as far as I wanted so put Hotel Sierra back to bed. A short flight but a very educational one. It showed to me I could still control a twitchy light taildragger in gusty crosswinds.
A video of the landings.
Well done tony. Keep it safe.