Trolley 639

This started off as one trolley on the ramp out of the Kokoro Passage. Left in the snap above.

Then it dawned on me that baskets with blue handles in town centre probably came from the Tesco's by the station - having passed one a few days ago and not twigged. Waitrose are green while M&S are black with a speciality shape. So clearly had to return it first. 

Then returned to take the two trolleys back to the M&S food hall. Not nearly as awkward as I had thought at the time of capturing trolley No.638. Unusually, the M&S stacks were empty, so I was able to take both pole positions. Right in the snap above.

The day had started with my wondering about the plants snapped above, at the back of the new daffodil bed, on top of some well-rotted kitchen & garden waste, which were going for most of last year and do not seem to have been troubled by the winter. With the gap being were a fox was poking around with a pigeon - this last to judge by the feathers left lying around.

On the basis of a zoom, Google Images suggests, inter alia, Lunaria annua, or honesty, a member of the cabbage family native to the northern Mediterranean littoral, but widely grown elsewhere. A plant which can either be biennial (as here) or annual and the seed cases of which gives ladies the silver pennies they use in craft work. Given that BH has muttered about honesty in the past, and one in what is now the gap may have flowered this year, I am inclined to agree. See reference 2. For once, Bentham & Hooker not very helpful: apparently it counts as foreign and is not a proper member of the British Flora.

After trolley action, carried on around the Ewell Village anti-clockwise, to be struck by this heritage wall, just by Bourne Hall, recently patched up, there having been an-about-to-be-noticed fall of part of the rather bigger heritage wall up on Clay Hill Green.

I would think that it is of roughly similar age, but with the advantage of being on more or less level ground and being much lower. The only slight fudge being that the new capping stones in the second stretch have been cut in around the pre-existing railings. I suppose one should not complain about that, as drilling and leading would have meant lifting the fence for the purpose, which would have been rather expensive.

Two stretches done on this campaign. We shall see if there are more to come.

While nearer home, plenty of water in the stream which becomes, after a stretch underground, the stream down Longmead Road. A stream which cannot be far above the chalk and which must be dry for three days out of four, taking the year as a whole. Maybe if we had a garden backing onto it, I would keep count.

There used to be a few blackberries too - but they have now been cut back and I don't suppose there will be much this year.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/02/trolley-638.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunaria_annua.

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