{"id":97,"date":"2020-02-12T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:38:16","slug":"when-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tontonwes.eu\/index.php\/2020\/02\/12\/when-the-wind-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"When the wind blows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(which is a British cultural reference<\/a>). All sheep were present and correct on Monday morning and after I checked everything else outside I thought we’d got through the spectacular storm unscathed (a number of trees fell in the village). However halfway through the morning a plum tree behind the house leaned over at 45\u00b0. Strangely the wind had dropped by then but I guess the tree’s hold had been loosened overnight and it just needed one more gust to move it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annoyingly, due to where it is, I can’t use the tractor to pull it straight (unless I do it from the neighbours’ garden) so it’s temporarily propped, awaiting the arrival from Amazon of a come-along winch. Which made me realise: I almost never buy books from Amazon, partially because I almost never buy books nowadays (lack of reading time) but also because buying books is best done in a bookshop as far as I’m concerned. However living as we do in the countryside where any buying of vaguely specialist equipment involves a 50-mile round trip, Amazon is a boon. There are online French suppliers I could use who maybe treat their staff better but often they are overpriced, unreliable and unable to match the speed of delivery of Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n \n \n

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