Trolley 518

More trolleys in the Kokoro Passage this morning. I took the M&S food hall one back, emptying the half full bottle of pop onto the ornamental grass in the bedding box at the other end of the passage, before dumping the bottle in the bin provided.. Hopefully the pop - colourless - will not prove too strong for the grass. Still n o cherries that I could see in M&S.

While the two trees outside Wetherspoon's are still looking a bit behind, not to say a bit frail. This despite the attention noticed about a fortnight ago at reference 2.

I passed on all the various trolleys which had gathered outside the creationists' pad in East Street.

And so on to Foody Fest in Ewell Village, last noticed at reference, which I was able to admire while I took a break on the nearby bench. I learned that they are open 09:00 to 23:00 at the end of the week, so clearly looking to do some drinks trade. Plus a few snacks. A sort of suburban version of Terroirs. We will see how they get on - but probably a bit far for us to walk of an evening these days. Would they be difficult about smoking?

Down West Street, over the footbridge over the railway, and into the passage running between the gas depot and what used to be Epsom Coaches, now a branch of the French company, RAPT, the heirs of the founder, Roy Richmond, having sold out. The point of interest being the plants growing in the narrow crack between the pavement and the red brick wall of the bus garage.

It reminded me of a small tree which suckered all over the place in our front garden in Cambridge, which BH was able to tell me was called sumac, probably the staghorn sumac of reference 5. The nearest I got was 'sedum', another short word with two syllables starting with an 's', but otherwise quite different. We will see if this stuff attempts to flower before it is chopped down.

A bit further along, a quite different and more varied flora. Mystery how it all takes root in such an improbable place.

Home to a mixed meat Lancashire Hot Pot, better known to me as Irish stew, inter alia using up the rest of the neck noticed at reference 6. Also to play spot the difference between this BH version and my version.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/trolley-517.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/trolley-515.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/pond-life.html.

Reference 4: Epsom Coaches: a driving force since 1920 - Richmond, Roy & Richmond, Andrew - 2003. A bit of heritage turned up by Bing when checking the name of the founder, shortly to be mine from ebay for just over £2 including postage. Can't be bad.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhus_typhina.

Reference 6: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-tale-of-two-joints.html.

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