{"id":19088,"date":"2022-05-01T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2022-05-01T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:06:45","slug":"a-tale-of-two-tonnelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-tale-of-two-tonnelles\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two ‘tonnelles’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or three if you like. I was very pleased with my handiwork yesterday having got the new ‘tonnelle’ up without any problems and exactly in the position I wanted it to be, giving me the small open area I wanted between the caravan and the two ‘tonnelles’ and two pleasant enclosed areas where I’ll be able to have friends to eat and drink during what will hopefully be a long, warm summer. It was a bit too late too take pictures last night so that’s what I started by doing today.<\/p>\n

The size of the open area is just right. Too small and it would be too cramped to sit or lie out in the sun in, especially with the small round table and a couple of chairs in place, but too large and it would make carrying stuff from the caravan into the ‘tonnelles’ a chore. It’s also nicely private but with plenty of room to get into it by walking between the new ‘tonnelle’ and the caravan.<\/p>\n

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It soon became apparent with the light northerly wind that we had today that my fears about the shortcomings of the new ‘tonnelle’s’ curtain design were well founded as in what was admittedly quite a brisk breeze, the curtains were hopeless in protecting the interior of the ‘tonnelle’ and its contents. Clearly something would have to be done to try to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another example showing how useless the new ‘tonnelle’s’ curtains currently are. You could never sit and enjoy a drink or a meal inside it with any sort of a wind blowing. It would be just like sitting in the open air, which is not what I want at all.<\/p>\n

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So that left just the curtain problem to be solved. As I mentioned in my last post, the curtains from the original ‘cheapie tonnelle’ were undamaged even though its metal framework was almost totally destroyed and as far as I could tell, their dimensions were good for the new ‘tonnelle’ as well as the one they came with. So I got them out to check and sure enough they were.<\/p>\n

It took the best part of an hour to remove the new curtains and replace them with the ‘old’ ones (they’re not, of course, because they were only in place for a matter of days before the winds blew up) but the final result was very pleasing. <\/p>\n

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So now the curtains on the new ‘tonnelle’ are the same as on the other one and hardly move in the breeze. A suspension tab had been pulled off one of the curtains and also a tape that secures one of the side curtains to an upright (no fabric damage, just stitching) but I’m a dab hand with a needle and thread and it only took me a few minutes to stitch them back on again, making the curtain set as good as new. And you hardly notice that the new ‘tonnelle’s’ roof is slightly darker.<\/p>\n

I will modify the new curtains myself by adding zips and more securing tapes but at least now there’s no urgency to do so. An internet search has already revealed that it could be difficult finding the six 183 cm long grey open ended zips that I’ll need here in France but I think that I’ve located a UK supplier. If so, doing the mods won’t be too hard once I’ve dug out my trusty Singer sewing machine that’s currently in storage. I just hope that when I get it out it hasn’t gone rusty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or three if you like. I was very pleased with my handiwork yesterday having got the new ‘tonnelle’ up without any problems and exactly in the position I wanted it to be, giving me the small open area I wanted between the caravan and the two ‘tonnelles’ and two pleasant enclosed areas where I’ll be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19104,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions\/19104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}