Trolley 634

A now rare capture of a Sainsbury's trolley, just their side of the footbridge leading over the railway to the Blenheim Road gas depot. At the bottom of West Street, from Ewell Village. Worth the extra few hundred yards to take it back, even if it was uphill.

But before I got there, past the thermal goings-on at the school end of the car park, complete with small signs which talked of a ground source heat pump - which does not sound as if it is much to do with saving money on refrigeration, which is what I had thought it was about. The big plastic pipes clocked on an earlier visit (reference 2) are visible left, while under the blue awning right there was what appeared to be something like the endoscope you might find in a hospital. Complete with engineer studying the screen. Not clear how you shove the camera down the hole at the same time as you are drilling it. Maybe you have to break both the drill shaft and the endoscopy connection every few feet to thread the camera cable through a new length of shaft - there being a pile of such lengths next to the drilling rig.

On into the passage down the side, to find lots of trolleys. A passage which, trolleys apart, is pleasingly litter free in this snap. Litter must be something which Sainsbury's attend to from time to time.

The trolleys were in view of a camera, so on a strict interpretation of the rules, non-scoring. I did try a few, but their wheel locks had engaged, which was presumably why they had been abandoned. I did not feel up to moving trolleys with a wheel locked; both awkward and tiring.

And so onto the trolley snapped at the head of the post.

On the way back with it, I noticed this decorated scooter, presumably the pride and joy of the owner. According to the logo bottom right, a Scomadi, not a marque I have come across before. But according to reference 3 a partnership of Italian design and distribution with far Eastern manufacture. Aimed at the serious scooterist.

I was not able to get a price, with search being swamped by the sort of scooters you stand on, rather than the ones you sit on. But a few clues suggested maybe several thousand pounds. I shall try harder.

The outing closed with a handsome clump of celandines, which would have been fully out and bright had there been any sun. By the stream running down Longmead Road, Pound Lane end. Weeks ahead of those in our back garden, but I guess they get a lot more sun here - when there is any, that is.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/02/trolley-633.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/02/trolley-626.html.

Reference 3: https://scomadi.co.uk/.

Reference 4: https://www.bezosearthfund.org/. It looks as if some $10 billion dollars has been pledged to make grants to help save the planet. Mr. Gates does malaria while Mr. Bezos does this.

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