Trolley 680

Back after Trolley 679 for two more trolleys from the Kokoro Passage, these ones from Waitrose for a change.

One without a handle, but ownership given away by the colour of the handle holder which remains. The bolt in the centre of which was threaded, leaving me wondering what the handles were made of - having assumed that they were some kind of metal tubing. Must be something, at least at the ends, to take the thread.

Quite usable without the handle, but I thought it proper, nevertheless, to return to Waitrose's back door, since they have one and I know where it is, for them to decide its fate. The man having a fag outside denied ownership at first but backed down when I pointed out the matter of the handle holder colour.

A short walk morning, so off round the Screwfix circuit, to find this tree coming into flower. I thought perhaps a whitebeam, having noticed this tree before at about this time of year, and so it proved to be, with blog search turning up reference 2 below, something over a hundred trolleys ago, that is to say a little less than a year ago. Common whitebeam, otherwise Sorbus aria.

I suppose if I was a corporate with an IT department, rather than an individual, I could have tested whether Google Image could find the previous picture, but, as it is, I was dependant on remembering the name.

Most of the leaves seemed to be in terminal whorls. However, although some of the images turned up by Bing look to have whorls, Wikipedia talks of alternate, so I shall have to take a closer look.

I might also say that there seems to be taxonomic movement in this area, with discussion at the genus level, and some untidiness in the Wikipedia treatment. Perhaps the Wikipedia editor is having trouble keeping up with the taxonomists.

While outside the former Tchibo shed, the daisies are doing well.

With there being more than daisies when one looks more carefully. I noticed, in particular, the pretty blue flowers that I know as speedwell, flowers which used to infest the lawns at the family home in Cambridge, much to the annoyance of my mother. Perhaps as much because it had been imported from the garden of one of my father's sisters as for any other reason. Probably Veronica chamaedrys, commonly just veronica. I think BH can get cross about it too. See reference 6.

PS: in the margins, Gemini mentioned the Amygdaloideae sub-family of the roses, which includes the whitebeam above. The connection with the amygdala in the brain being that the fruits of the former have almond shaped pips or stones, while the two halves of the amygdala are also described as being almond shaped. From the Greek. A sub-family which causes a lot of trouble to the taxonomists: to lump apples and pears in with plums, cherries and peaches or not? See reference 7.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/05/trolley-679.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/05/trolley-570.html.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_edulis.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitebeam.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_chamaedrys.

Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdaloideae.

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