BEACON BUILDERS.

 Fir light, fire bright as tonight over 4.000 beacons across the world will be lit in honour of The Queen's Golden Jubilee. Many may have only viewed 1.000 vessels on the Thames yesterday by watching it on television, but what a sight that was despite the worsening weather. Here we at least seem to be lucky today and the guys were determined to make our beacon as big as possible ... it all began early this morning with a trailer load.

Many willing hands ready to start building as yet more trailer loads were delivered to the site. It's not the highest part of the mountain due to the fact that there is too much heather up there, but the area chosen is safer, it allows for access, parking and hopefully we won't need the fire service in attendance tonight.

 After yesterdays rain the moorland is just damp enough to hopefully prevent stray sparks setting the old rushes alight. Today was sunny and dry with a light breeze, ideal for the beacon builders to really get going on building what began to look like a giant wigwam and as even more wood arrived it got bigger still as using carefully place pallets as a stair case, the guys got the pyramidal structure higher. Not satisfied with this height, the lads were determined to make the 10 metre mark and succeeded. They worked darn hard and were still adding the finishing touches at five this afternoon. The hot dog and baked potato stand is all in place, all we need now is a crowd to admire it as it is lit at about 22.10 tonight. Her Majesty is due to light one at 22.30.

The daft dog thought he could get away with sneaking off with the odd stray stick and found willing folk to throw them for him, so he was kept amused as a willing band of litter pickers tidied up the area.

Bags & bags of fly tipped mess has been picked up and the area looks clean and tidy. ready for the festivities to begin. The weather is looking good too, so fingers crossed that all our beacons will be clearly seen across the valleys as in old celtic days of celebration.

So ... everything is just about ready as folk head home to clean up and get changed ready to return to our beacon overlooking the valleys. It should be a good event with several hundred expected to attend. No doubt the sheep will be amazed at the blaze and bemoan the fact that a large area of freshly sprung grazing has been well and truly trampled on. We will hopefully update you tomorrow with photo's of our brilliantly blazing beacon.