{"id":24312,"date":"2026-04-22T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24312"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:09:29","slug":"what-do-you-make-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/what-do-you-make-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you make of this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you make of this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/dumper_del.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/dumper_del_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know what I do, and I think we&#8217;re going to see more of it if fuel costs stay high.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the problems of living in rural France. You&#8217;re waiting on a heavy delivery and you&#8217;re informed of the delivery date and time so you wait at home especially to receive it.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t arrive. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Because at the time it&#8217;s due to be delivered the delivery company (on this occasion Geodis) doesn&#8217;t have any more drop-offs in your area so instead they start playing ping-pong. <\/p>\n<p>As they have to have trucks travelling between their depots, they send it back from whence it came and then when it arrives there, it gets turned round again, in the hope that when it arrives at the depot responsible for delivery, in this case P\u00e9rigueux, this time there&#8217;ll be other drop-offs in the same area.<br \/>\nIf not, will it go round again? I wouldn&#8217;t bet that it wouldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>So, so far two days late. Let&#8217;s wait and see.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you make of this? I know what I do, and I think we&#8217;re going to see more of it if fuel costs stay high. It&#8217;s one of the problems of living in rural France. You&#8217;re waiting on a heavy delivery and you&#8217;re informed of the delivery date and time so you wait at &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/what-do-you-make-of-this\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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-24312","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\/24312","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=24312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24313,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions\/24313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}