Trolley 529

 

By the time I got back for the Sainsbury's trolley already noticed at reference 1, it had been augmented by a trolley from the M&S food hall. But I stuck to the plan, emptied the Sainsbury's trolley into the nearby litter bin, and marched off with it to Kiln Lane.

Picking up some fruit from the market on the way. Some genuine Victoria plums, the best plums I have had this season. The apples were Laxton's something, but were not the Laxton's Superb that I knew as a child. Possibly Laxton's Fortune. A fresh, crisp apple in very good condition, but a little light on flavour to my mind. Probably from Bessborough Farm, of Faversham in Kent.

Then, a little later, I found that the stacks outside the Sainsbury's main entrance included no small trolleys. So mine was taken in charge by a grateful lady before I had finished starting a new line. Perhaps Sunday is a day for small shops. Serious shoppers sticking to Friday night and Saturday.

Over the footbridge and down Blenheim Road to find a minor water problem outside Tchibo. The place where they have a fine display of daisies in the spring and the occasion pyramid orchid later on. See, for example, reference 2.

The relevant leak is off snap to the right. While I wonder now how an expensive a computer vision program you have to have to properly parse the reflection of the building in the water.

For the record, a snap of part of the small tree which I suspect of being a relative of the two rather sickly trees outside the Wetherspoons in the market place, noticed from time to time. Furthermore, the other day, I passed a chap from Civic Trees - noticed at reference 2 and web-sited at reference 3 - watering what looked like a small dead tree in Bridge Road at Chessington. Perhaps they have got the Kington contract as well as the Epsom & Ewell one.

It would be interesting to know how this oak, lifted from their web-site, got on in its second life. I believe that Louis XIV tried transplanting mature elm trees for his garden at Versailles: they did alright at first, but as I recall, had mostly expired twenty years later. But then, he did not have the advantage of the proper diggers deployed by the Civic Trees people. On the other hand, he did have gardeners who probably knew that it was best to move trees when they were dormant, towards the end of the year.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/09/trolleys-527-and-528.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/trolley-516.html.

Reference 3: https://www.civictrees.co.uk/.

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