Trolley 472

Pushing onto Ewell, I passed on the large collection of trolleys parked at the bottom of the creationists' accommodation block in East Street. They hadn't even left a few out front, where I could lift one relatively inconspicuously.

However, there was one further along East Street, a little past the Kiln Lane entrance, so I had that one instead. Snapped above.

Pushed on out of the back of Sainsbury's and into Kingsway, which brought me up into the village. To note that the expensively refurbished food shop/café probably called feastyfest and probably the same as the people at reference 2, looked very quiet. But the website does suggest that they might sell saucisson sec, so I perhaps had better take a look.

A catch for them being that there are already quite a lot of cafés in Ewell Village, not least Costa, which seems to do pretty well, trumping the smaller outfits.

Lots of twittering in the bushes at the bottom of Longmead Road and a couple of redwings on the ground.

And so to Pound Lane, now supporting a small parcels operation from inpost of reference 3. In a location like this, I would worry about the on-board computer and the youth who probably gather after dark - while the website suggests that station ticket halls are their location of choice. That said, somebody tried that at Epsom Station, but gave up after a year or so. I don't think that it helped that they were next to the station, with a proper shop, rather than being right on the spot, open to the ticket hall.

PS: I wonder from time to time why the Poles and the Russians are always sniping at each other. Also about the long history of Russia (or the Soviet Union) invading its neighbours - satellites of Turkey in the 19th century, its own satellites in the 20th century, with Finland and Poland in 1939, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and sundry other places after that. Although, contrariwise, having pushed across northern Asia to Alaska, they then sold it for a few million dollars to the US in 1867. All this without trying to claim that we in the west did not go in for such stuff, in one form or another. Then, a couple of days ago, the FT mentioned a big standoff between Poland and the Soviet Union in 1980-81. Bing turns up lots of stuff about this, including reference 4 below. And there will be plenty of Poles who remember those times. Just as there are still plenty of Finns who are too young to remember, but still know all about the Winter War of 1939. So what with Putin's penchant for the trappings of power, the Orthodox Church, the Mother Russia of old and for brutal police methods, a depressing amount of continuity with the past two or three centuries. And things are not that clever in some of the former satellites either.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/02/trolley-471.html.

Reference 2: https://feastyfest.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://inpost.co.uk/.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_reaction_to_the_Polish_crisis_of_1980%E2%80%931981.