You Pays Your Money!

That’s it, we are now committed. Today I have made a bank transfer into the supplier’s account for the sum of an awful lot of money! We have had to pay 60% of the cost of the turbine before they will take our order and begin construction. It reminds me of a trip long ago to Kenya, where we caught a taxi. The driver’s first destination was a filling station. He couldn’t afford to put fuel in his car until he had a guaranteed customer. I’m not saying that the Dutch manufacturer is like that, and I think all the suppliers work on a similar basis, but it does make you think. (At least it does when you’ve just, as they say, bet the farm!)