Various errands down town yesterday morning, which meant that I came across all the trolleys which had accumulated in the Kokoro Passage since I was last there, before the weekend. I returned the two middle sized trolleys snapped above to the M&S food hall. No masks to be seen, although I was carrying, just in case.
Where I bought two packets of (English) plums for a total of £4, not Victorias, but looking like some variation on that theme. The two that I had and the one that BH had were acceptable, but a little overripe. The balance has been stewed and now smell rather more appetising than the overripe cherries noticed a couple of weeks back at reference 2.
Visit to Rymans for two items, first staples. To find that staples come in around half a dozen sizes, from various suppliers and in various formats. Eventually settle on 26 × 6 and the chap at the till assures me that if I have guessed wrong, they will change them on presentation of receipt. As it turned out, I guessed right.
Couldn't remember what the second item was and only remembered when I had got to the eastern end of the High Street. Back to Rymans for the string, to find that the chap who had sold me the staples had no idea what string was, but consulting his colleague came up with twine, which is what Rymans call string. Thick white stuff, but definitely still string to my mind. Twine is usually brown not bleached, the rather rougher and stronger stuff used in the garden or for tying up larger packages.
Having headed back west, returned home via the station and West Hill, rather than via Hook Road, as I had originally intended. Metro very thin. How long will it last with all this home working dragging on?
Noticed on the way back that work on the frame-and-panel house going up in Ridgeway has paused. Are they going to take as long with this one as the one in Manor Green Road, which went on for a couple of years or more. See reference 3.
Nearer home, some oddments from the garden. A full sized frog in one of the smaller of our micro ponds. I forgot which, so popped a bit of batten in each so that it could get out. Presumably jumped in without thinking that the water was rather low and it would have trouble getting out again. A bit dim. No fox action on the big compost heap overnight Sunday-Monday. Some white autumn cyclamen showing between the two compost heaps, a little earlier than usual.
And last but not least, the oleaster which I chopped down to within around a foot of the ground back in May and notice from time to time since then, has finally sprouted. Nothing too exuberant, but signs of life. Will they survive and prosper? See reference 4.
While from the indoor garden, we have this orchid, in our possession for some years now, very rarely out of flower. The instruction say that it should alternate between in flower and out of flower, which it does, but it is a very uneven alternation. It does get fed, which helps explain how a plant with not much leaf manages so much flower. And looks a bit more real in real life than it does in this snap, on this laptop a little plastic looking.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/08/trolley-524.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/08/trolley-522.html.
Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/11/slow-build.html.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/05/oleaster-down.html.
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