Noticed the previous day in the car park adjoining the Kokoro Passage, captured yesterday afternoon. A rare small trolley from Sainsbury's, presumably from their Kiln Lane store.
Not visible in this shot, but the right hand rear wheel as you push it has been pushed in a bit, maybe a couple of inches, which makes it surprisingly awkward to push along. But by the time I found this out, I was in the High Street and committed. No turning back. Pulling, rather than pushing seemed to be the answer. So one held the front left hand side of the basket with one's right hand, and pulled it along like that. Which worked well enough provided one had space on the pavement, which was the case along most of East Street.
I decided that the trolley should not go back in the stack, rather in the stash of trolleys at the eastern corner of the car park, right in the snap above.
I have always supposed that this was the trolleys which had been retired or which needed attention, but on a quick glance, it was hard to seen anything wrong with any of them. I wondered whether Sainsbury's had some maintenance arrangement with Wanzl? Are there third party maintenance people lurking on some industrial estate up north? Can't see Sainsbury's having their own maintenance operation these days, doesn't fit in with the management consultants' mantra of off-loading anything which is not core business.
Home to try and extract some value out of the TLS (number of March 15th), without much success. About the only piece which might have been of interest was hung off reference 2, a book about what now has the splendid label of creative non-fiction, a genre which I remain wary of, the book noticed at reference 3 notwithstanding. All I got for my money was some stuff about how the genre had levered its way into creative writing departments of universities in the US - nothing on the issues of substance which are to my mind involved at all. J. Micheal Lennon did not earn his fee, assuming he got one.
Apart from that, I noticed a few pages on women's issues and a few pages on bash a Brit. I did not look, but this last was quite possibly the work of citizens of the land of the free, that is to say of the US, citizens who are quite possibly not very alive to all the stuff that the US has got up to over the past two or three hundred years. I find them rather irritating.
I really must stop buying the TLS: Waitrose not having a Guardian is a feeble excuse.
PS 1: display of images on my fancy but elderly HDMI screen from HP, the one connected to the desktop, has become irritatingly poor. I'm sure it used to be much better, so maybe the screen is so old that it is getting left behind by updates. Slightly better if I load the image direct the the source, rather than from the blog post, but not much.
PS 2: while asking Bing about HOMI by mistake gives an IP address flavoured Edge error: 'You've requested a page on a website that is part of the Cloudflare network. The host (www.bing.com) resolved to an IP address that the owner of the website does not have access to'. Phone a geek. Google was fine about it.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/trolley-652.html.
Reference 2: The fine art of literary fist fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction - Lee Gutkind - 2023. Yale University Press.
Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/author-author.html.
Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Lennon. Another geriatric, that is to say someone more than five years older than I am, this one clocking 81. An expert on Norman Mailer.
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