Trolley 677

Having scored the now rare Waitrose trolley at reference 1, I headed off up East Street. I was unable to resist what has become another rarity, a couple of trolleys from Sainsbury's in front of the creationists' accommodation block there. Pushed up the hill to Kiln Lane and returned to their stack.

At which point, I decided that the footbridge and Blenheim Road was the way ahead, rather than doubling back to East Street and continuing on round the rather longer Ewell Village anti-clockwise.

To find these large ivy leaves in the passage. I have noticed them before, but the point here is that these are new leaves, new this year. So being a large leaf is not the product of being an old leaf - not that I have any idea how long one might expect an ivy leaf to last. Gemini suggests up to three years or so and further prompted goes on to say:

Points two and three look promising - unchecked for the moment, but something to try to pick up on on my next visit to an RHS library.

Note how polite Gemini is. Your question is always fascinating, helpful and so on.

A bit further down, a couple of clumps of wild garlic. Not noticed before, so perhaps a recent arrival from somewhere. Not quite in the same league as the great banks of them on Devon roadsides, say around Holne.

And a fine thistle pushing through. Definitely one to keep an eye on. Let's hope no-one takes a stick to it.

Finally, no pyramid orchids but a few cowslips in the grass bank outside what was the Tchibo warehouse. Last noticed here more than 100 trolleys ago at reference 2. Much more recently, maybe a kilometre up the road, at reference 3.

Celebrated later with a new white wine from Majestic. A brand we have used before, but not this particular label. It did very well. And with a little more effort I suppose I could have got both labels and containers the same size. As it was, I thought containers was better than labels.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/trolley-676.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/04/trolley-567.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/indecision.html.

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