Trolley 697

Captured on the same expedition which bagged No.696, in the car park next to the other passage down from Station Approach. A medium trolley from the M&S food hall and a larger trolley from Waitrose. Scored as one as I took them over in the single trip.

A relic of the Derby in the passage itself. A bit bruised, although if one was desperate, I suppose it would do in a pipe. Possibly moistened with something, not sure what. From Nicaragua. One can get rather good cigars from that part of the world, but if this one was made for the US market, they probably put saltpetre in the mix, which I do not care for at all. King Edwards cigars do it too.

Some sort of bryony or some such doing well in a planter along East Street.

And pyramid orchids have finally reappeared on the grass bank outside what was the Tchibo warehouse. Patience pays. Let's hope they get time to get a big bigger before the mowing men move it.

A more general view. They seem to be spreading.

A bit nearer home, a monkey puzzle tree which is coming on nicely. Yet another plant whose leaves I can now have another go at unravelling. See, for example, reference 3.

One might have thought that someone would have a better use for all these bits of beam. I am sure that if I still had an allotment, they would have come in handy. Even as it is, I did think about it - but decided not to risk the back getting them home. Hitching to a rope, one or two at a time, and then dragging them along on a thick piece of cardboard might have been the way forward. Perhaps a collapsed box.

The reinforcing looks to amount to just the one rebar. Maybe as much as a centimetre in diameter, just above the orange spot.

Home to inspect the haul from what is pleased to call itself a farmers' market. With the cherries sold to me by a chap who actually was a fruit grower - probably the same chap as was noticed 150 and more trolleys ago at reference 4. Certainly the same farm.

A little cheaper than the ones that I had bought the day before at Waitrose, but nothing like as sweet and a little over-ripe. I was not impressed at all. But BH put them in the fridge overnight and by the time the second helping came around my palette had adjusted a bit. Better than they had at first seemed, much better than they look in the snap above which has done something unpleasant to the colour. Not many duds. But I was left thinking that maybe big store quality control does have something going for it.

Two small salamis, I think from the Piedmont, visible at the back, yet to be broached. Something more than twice the price of the saucisson from Bastides which I usually buy. We shall see whether they were worth it.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/06/trolley-696.html.

Reference 2: https://joyacigars.com/clasico-original/. 'The Joya de Nicaragua Clásico Original originally captivated America in the 70s and 80s and was the first premium cigar to ever be exported from Nicaragua. It even became the chosen cigar at the White House'.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/10/araucaria.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/09/trolley-529.html.

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