Trolley 526

Having just declined the litter filled trolley from Sainsbury's once again, trolley No.526 was picked up in the Kokoro passage. Returned to the M&S food hall the other side of the road, where I found that it was not a size used there. Maybe it had somehow got to Epsom from elsewhere, perhaps the little shop attached to the BP garage on the Dorking Road, maybe a kilometre away. Perhaps a little shop which keeps longer hours than the big shop in Epsom.

Having entered through the back of the store, exited from the front, to find another M&S trolley, this time a proper one, albeit rather wet. Returned it to find that the first trolley had already been taken by a shopper, spotting her with it on my way out. Given that the first trolley was an alien and the second one was collected from less than fifty yards from the front entrance of the store, it seems right to score the two as just one.

Noticed the leaves on the rather sickly looking trees outside Wetherspoon's on the way. In clusters, small, thin and slightly shiny, a bit like the leaves on our bottlebrush bush, a variety originally from Australia. So I imagine adapted to dry conditions, which might be why they had been planted there after the death of their predecessors. Which does not agree with the story reported at reference 2 - but who knows?

Called in the fruit and veg. stall (off snap to the right) on my way out, falling for two tubs of pink plums, something like Victoria plums but not labelled such, and a pound of fancy dates, sold loose. The lady selling them explained that the thing to do was to replace the date stones with walnut meats. Very tasty she said. Can't see me bothering though. A stall which seems to have a bit of a thing for dates as they often seem to have heaps of boxed dates of unusual brands, perhaps from Jordan or Iran.

I got a lot of plums for my money, two tubs turning out to be rather more than I expected, and so far they have all been both ripe and sound. Satisfactory rather than good and I expect we (or rather BH) will end up stewing a good portion of them.

Back by way of Hook Road and Manor Green Road, where I noticed a young tree with similar leaves to those noticed in town. A tree which had been there a few years, was still rather small and the leaves were not much bigger than those in town. Maybe trees which modulate the size of their leaves according to conditions? Sounds a bit of a stretch but not, I suppose, impossible.

While on the registration plate front, I clocked up No.22 (lots of them), No.33, No.55 and No.66. But not No.44 and certainly nothing any nearer to No.36.

Following the letter noticed in the postscript to reference 3, a lot of activity on the Thames Water front, with what appears to be several meter teams on the go. Let's hope that the cover of this meter tube ends up rather more level than appears above.

While outside our own house, the streak of mud arising from our new meter running down the edge of the road, has not been washed away by the recent rain. Maybe, short of taking a brush to it, it is going to take months for nature to take its course.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/08/trolley-525.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/04/notre-dame.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/08/stuffing.html.

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