Made it!

Some time late last night, while no one was watching, that deceptively feeble looking shoot made it to the top

Now it should start photographing me, to measure the response time taken to establish the now necessary horizontal wire.  It must be pondering, ‘will he achieve it this season?…… frankly, he doesn’t look capable’

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