View from Farley Mount

For a change I left the office for a week on a high: 9 months after my colleague and I put together a "cunning plan" with our client's chief architect designed to improve the performance of their critical system as it entered it's peak operational period, it all went live last night. Early indications are that our predicted performance benefits are more than being met.  We also delivered major upgrades to another system to test - so the development team headed out a local pub for a well earned drink!

After work I headed up to local landmark, Farley Mount, to enjoy the 360 degree views across Hampshire.  This view is looking east towards Winchester.

Farley Mount (extra) is an odd shaped monument to a horse and bares the inscription on the plaque on the north wall reading:
"Underneath lies buried a horse, the property of Paulet St. John Esq, that in the month of September 1733 leaped into a chalk pit twenty-five feet deep a foxhunting with his master on his back and in October 1734 he won the Hunters Plate on Worthy Downs and was rode by his owner and was entered in the name of Beware Chalk Pit".