Tilting at windmills policies. The movie "They Might Be Giants" (1971) features a reference to Don Quixote thinking that the windmills are giants, and the movie is named after that reference. Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, in a 1972 album release by the same name, wrote and recorded the song Don Quixote which contained the lines "through the woodland, through the valley, comes a horseman wild and free; "tilting at the windmills passing", who can the brave young horseman be...". The alternative Santa Barbara band Toad the Wet Sprocket released the album "Dulcinea" in 1994. Named for the love interest of Don Quixote, the
Drinkstone windmills a fantail being added towards the end of her working life. The mill was last worked with a pair of Common sails and a pair of Spring sails. The windshaft was a wooden one. The millstones were supported on a hurst frame, an arrangement usually found in a watermill. Reference for above:- "Drinkstone post mill" was featured in the Dad's Army episode "Don't Forget the Diver" in which Lance Corporal Jones went round on the sails of the mill and was thrown off into a pond. Drinkstone windmills Drinkstone Windmills are a pair of windmills at Drinkstone, Suffolk, England. They