Out and about

First up, some heavy plant involved in the resurfacing of a road near us. They must be doing a bit more than just putting a skim of something on top. With a non-scoring Wellingtonia behind.

At least one non-scoring trolley in the Kokoro Passage.

Then I find that our local Majestic has shut up shop, there having been warning signs some weeks ago now. One the chaps left behind to finish stripping the store out explained that the owners of the site had been trying to get permission to build a block of self storage units for some time and had finally got it. Whereupon they gave Majestic two weeks notice: presumably Majestic had been happy to operate on a short-notice tenancy agreement. Their staff have been redeployed and they have hopes of reopening in nearby Banstead. Not so convenient for us and I guess we will start going to the outlet at Leatherhead. But who is going to occupy these self-storage units? One might have thought that there were plenty of these places around already, not least on nearby Blenheim Road, but presumably they know what they are doing.

While the chaps putting up the fence snapped above managed to shut in another non-scoring trolley, this one from Sainsbury's. No way to get at it that I could see.

Down through the Screwfix underpass to notice an outfit on Blenheim Road called the Mould Growth Consultants, with a logo including a microscope. I thought maybe something vaguely pharmaceutical, but no, actually they are a specialised cleaning company. Mould, lichen, moss and all that sort of thing. Indoors and outdoors. See references 1 and 2.

And lastly to my first blackberries of the season. Not many, but as the supermarket tells us, every little helps. And Bing tells me that eBay will sell you both the bag and the t-shirt.

When and where will the next ones be? If last year is anything to go by, I have a month in hand. See reference 3.

So far, I find wheeling the Rollator (noticed at reference 4) a bit like wheeling a superior, lite-weight shopping trolley. Having bigger wheels helps. Having (two) brakes helps. Having only the front two wheels on swivels helps, although I can see that, in the aisles of a shop, one might take a different view. And a pavement which slopes perpendicularly to the direction of travel is still a pain - something there is a fair bit of on our residential, rather than on our retail streets. So far, so good!

I imagine that Mums with prams and push-chairs know all about sloping pavements. Not to mention the declining number of people who still wheel themselves by hand in wheel chairs. Known, I believe, as 'wheelers' among themselves.

References

Reference 1: https://www.mgcltd.co.uk/.

Reference 2: https://www.trade.mgcltd.co.uk/. 

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/09/blackberries-2.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/07/trolleys.html.