Pole position

Today the Electricity Boardmen came and put up the pole.  Alan watched them do it and apparently when they're putting a pole on the bank as here, they work as if the bank is not there - so about 3m of the pole is below ground level and we need fear neither tempest nor torrent affecting our power supply.  The pole is in the extreme SW corner of our plot and in the longer run there will be a tree next to it screening it from view - although perhaps instead we'll just carve totem shapes into it...