Trolley 555

Trolley 555, a large trolley from Waitrose, was captured in the Kokoro passage. The tip of a stash of trolleys, deeper into the car park, can be seen left. A stash to which I have yet to turn my attention. Keeping my credit card under firm control - it being a weaner Wednesday - I returned home via the Screwfix passage.

Where there seemed to be a new kid on the block. That is to say a builders' merchant which appeared to specialise in fabricated panels of one sort or another. Investigation at reference 2 however suggests that they are very big into plastic windows, plastic doors and plastic guttering. Big into, for example, what they call vertical slider windows.

One of their publicity shots for same appears to be what used to Battersea College, now flats, which I pass on a regular basis. I shall have to see if their plastic windows look as well in real life as they do here.

Pushing on, a trolley of uncertain parentage. The blue trim suggests Tesco but the usual branding on the handle is missing. Must take a closer look. 

Then, an interesting bit of back-land development, at the back of houses fronting onto Miles Road. Not sure about rights of way and vehicular access, but it might suit a hobbyist who wanted both a bit of space outside and a workshop - although most workshops would want electricity if not water these days. Perhaps someone into astronomical telescopes? In which connection, vandals and intruders might be a problem, given the area.

In this case, gmaps does rather better than Ordnance Survey, if only because they have spent more on their aerial photography, offering much better definition. An investment opportunity? And then there are all the trees in the plot to the left of the garage, more or less centre. An older tree lover's garden? Something else to be inspected more carefully next time I go past.

Tonight, Friday evening, should have seen me at the Wigmore Hall for what I had thought were some Schubert piano sonatas, but which turn out to be some Bach partitas for solo violin, which would do just as well. With Ferschtman being a violinist for which I hold no record, but who is to be found at reference 3. Yet another memory problem. 

That apart, a few years ago I might have battled my way in. Possibly cycled in this afternoon, parked up at a Premier Inn or some such, then cycled back tomorrow. Cycled to Morden this afternoon and picked up the tube. Bit of a long run back in the dark, late at night. Plus it might be raining. Got BH to take me to Morden, then tube, then Premier Inn. Then worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

But none of this is going to happen today. Maybe this will prove to be the last call for evening concerts. Maybe I shall investigate classicFM, which may be offering this very concert.

PS 1: having been reminded of this option by a missive on fancy House of Commons paper - fancy envelope to match - free postage - from Failin' Graylin', our winter fuel allowances, dished out without regard to circumstances, are now winging their way to the Epsom Food Bank, which looks like a reasonable target. Under the auspices of the Trussell Trust of reference 4. 

PS 2: I think I am on Failin' Graylin's address list as a result of my unsuccessful attempts to interest him in 'Dignity in Dying'. A subject on which he has his head very firmly in the sand. Or perhaps he is a man of faith; I did not get close enough to find out. But I will say that he runs a very efficient office.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/01/trolley-554.html.

Reference 2: https://www.eurocell.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://lizaferschtman.nl/.

Reference 4: https://www.trusselltrust.org/. '... Twenty years later, we now support a  network of food banks across the UK, supported by thousands of volunteers. Each provides emergency food to people in crisis, and additional support to help tackle the root causes that sweep people into poverty and build people’s resilience, so they are less likely to need a food bank in the future...'. Represented by a cardboard box with tins inside our branch of NatWest this morning, so clearly respectable.

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