It being Day 5 of the kitchen refit, I took a shorter walk, the Screwfix circuit, in the afternoon. A couple of trolleys gathered up from somewhere in the Kokoro Passage.
On the way I had passed something going on at the top of Clay Hill Green, something which looked to be getting underway yesterday (Thursday), featuring coils of yellow plastic pipe, maybe 30mm in diameter. The sort used by the water people to branch off the mains?
Bing turns up images of both water and gas flavoured pipes, while Gemini opts for gas.
I get a rather better reply from Microsoft's Copilot. I feed it back to Gemini, who is polite about it, but I am not sure that Gemini knows what Copilot is, at least not from his reply. He also, like a person, feels the need to cap what Copilot has to say!
Which looks as if it was lifted, more or less verbatim, from the respectable and trustworthy looking site at reference 5. Unless, of course, there is another source behind that. While Gemini was right about Cadent, a large and important gas distribution company of which I had not previously heard. See reference 6. All just like, I suppose, the pupils in a class at school writing quite different but equally valid essays in response to the teacher's one prompt.
Having delivered the trolley, on up East Street, where I found that the one trolley in the creationists' den which I had passed up on the day before had become five. Two, or possibly three, but I was not going to push five of them up to Kiln Lane, nor was I going to break their line. So passed up again.
But there were some flashy camelias on the way out. A flower which BH is rather keener on than I am.
Plus another job for Google Images. I think something like this turned up in the search for umbrella plants, noticed at reference 2. He plumps for the greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) of reference 3. A member of the poppy family, so not a close relative of the smaller celandine which we get in our back garden which is a member of the buttercup family. He mentions various other possibilities, including the US variant the celandine poppy or wood poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum), improbable in East Street. But then, Google Images does not use that information.
Google Lens can and when so prompted on my telephone comes up with a rather bigger list of possibilities, including the US variant. But a way to go yet before I am confident using this tool.
So an Image's plumping which looks plausible enough, but I may check further later. Maybe the plant itself will survive to flower.
And to close, a small tree down over the path down Blenheim Road, just past the tip. Not a path which is much used, so the council, quite reasonably, not in a tearing hurry to clear it away. The mast of reference 4 is visible top left in the snap above.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/trolley-654.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/trolley-652.html.
Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelidonium_majus.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/trolley-616.html.
Reference 5: https://www.cornerstoneprojects.co.uk/blog/underground-utility-colour-codes/.
Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadent_Gas.
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