Hexbeam erected

 Hardware all ready

 Nicely engineered plate

 Beau looking at the hardware all complete

 Mast tilted correctly ready for Hexbeam

 Elements all fixed

 What a beauty 

 Low impact?

Cannot see it!!!

Tuesday 24th September 

Been a warm sunny day been sweating buckets great way to lose weight :-) Thought today will put in rotator into mast cage & put elements onto Hexbeam.  Made big stupid mistake because the mast had been up for a long time without tilting over! I flicked up the bolt slacked the cable & undid bolt & started to tilt over. 

As I started to tilt over bang the tower went into telescopic mode! so had to use pure strength pushing down at base end to get it vertical! sadly pulling stomach.

After realising my mistake & reading the sign by flip bolt!& Ros giving me ear ache really was annoyed with myself still never mind got over the problem with brute force & ignorance.

Next job was putting on elements, then Ros said as you moved it from grass to decking yesterday would it be a good idea putting the aerial onto mast as it is down? & rain is forecast for tomorrow, I think she wanted her washing line back up :-)

Then comes the next problem! The rotator bolts are to long L as they used to go through the pole cast brackets but found 8mm nuts so everything was okay & not bolt cutting

So I went for it, even though my good friend John M0JKL said he would help me. In the end a successful day but far to cream crackered (slang for tired) to connect it into the junction box will be another day & will up date blog with how it performs, also I had a load of rubbish which needed to get to the recycle centre.

Got to say because 150ft away from house it does look low impact 

Weare Giffard Hall

 The original horse & carriage entrance

 Stunning house

Inside the church

Friday 13th September  We have been in North Devon 6 years in December 2013 and in that time have heard about a wonderful property in Weare Giffard which had a fascinating history. We saw in our local village magazine that a Merton history society were having a tour of the house which is not open to the public. I emailed the chair-lady who kindly allowed us to join the group with a donation to be made to the local church.

Arrived at 1.45pm sadly it was pouring with rain so a garden viewing was later with a umbrella. Met the ladies & gentlemen from Merton & also the Petrockstowe history society which is another local village.

We were greeted by the gentleman of the property and was given a very interesting talk about the history of the property the Giffards and the Fortescues were among the knights who came to England with William the Conqueror. The Giffards and later the Fortescues controlled local events and were important magnates who built the Hall and developed the area.

Weare Giffard Hall consists of a range with the Great Hall in its centre and two long projecting wings to the south & built in 14th century.

After a brilliant tour and a real treat to have the viewing we did a brief walk around the grounds & a visit into the attached church which we never had been into before.