man falls in love with tree
It’s a touching story of romance and passion in these gloomier times. Adam Hinton Senior Designer with Windrush Group has fallen head over heels in love with a tree called Melissa. (We think he might have made that name up.)
Production Manager David Hyde noted, “They are inseparable. They go everywhere together. Well, I say ‘everywhere’. Melissa doesn’t actually move all that much. She sways around a bit, but other than that, Adam pretty much has to go to the forest where Melissa is. We are a bit worried about him, but he isn’t the first. Ever since we took the environmental step of gaining Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) accreditation, many members of staff have been taking a keen interest in trees.”
“It really is meant to be a way of working more responsibly for our environment and making sure that our customers are part of our ‘chain of custody’ which ensures that we only use papers from FSC managed forests with our clients, in turn, benefiting from that environmental decision. They can even use our FSC logo on their printed work showing that, by using Windrush for print, they are making a positive. environmental decision. So you can see how I really didn’t think there could be any problem with that.”
The problem arose when enthusiastic members of Windrush staff who loved the idea of being part of the FSC wanted to embrace it. In Adam and Melissa’s case...quite literally.
It seemed innocent enough when printer Wayne built a tree house in his garden to live in. Then artworker Sue Mills began her own ‘plant a tree’ campaign in Carterton and has so far planted two trees in her mum’s garden. Okay not a big campaign, but it’s a bit nippy at night now and she doesn’t have a decent spade.
Eyebrows began to raise a little when Howard Keeping, normally a level headed pre-press manager bought three hundred yards of bubble wrap to protect the trees of Minster Lovell. I don’t think he was paying close attention in the meetings about sustainability and protecting our forests.
Now that Adam and Melissa are an item and talking about setting a date, it may have gone too far. She is by all accounts thirty years older than him, for a start, and by the time she is seventy he wont be able to get his arms around her anymore.
Young love eh? It’ll end in tears..or sap in Melissa’s case