psmv5: Trolley 732

Two trolleys from the M&S food hall, captured in the car park run by the council underneath the main block of flats built across the road from the railway station. Returned to the food hall in good order, where there was still a good supply of the smaller trolleys on the stack.

Out into the market to view this car from Wilson's, our big local dealer. A new model, all electric MG. Google Images in no doubt that it is the shiny new MG Cyberster. Not at all like the much smaller MGs which were the one of the popular sports cars of my younger days, along with one of the TR series, possibly TR3 or TR4 by then. The days when regular saloon cars would struggle to crank up to 80 mph and when acceleration was important when overtaking on two or three lane roads - which was what many of the trunk roads in those days were.

I thought that the young man from Wilson's who was minding the car was quite knowledgeable about it, he had done his homework, read the fliers. Although he was a bit coy about the top speed, talking vaguely about more than 150mph on a straight. Keen on the car having two engines, one for the back wheels and one for the front. Equipped with its own web site at reference 2. Now owned by the SAIC corporation of Shanghai, more or less a heritage operation by Chinese standards. But big. How long before I see one on the road?

Home via the chemist - Pearl were busy doing vaccinations this morning, but there was a separate queue for chemicals - and then the Screwfix passage. Where I remembered that the other day I had bumped into an Ordnance Survey surveyor doing some odd job for the Land Registry, I guess something about the land around the town end of the passage, the bottom of Stones Road. He explained that the Land Registry used to have its own surveying department but that they had all been transferred to the Ordnance Survey, who now do their work as a subcontractor. Perhaps this suited the Survey, with its own surveying needs well down with the coming of satellite imaging and the associated IT.

Requirement for surveyors' chains well down too. The sort of thing snapped above and to be found at reference 6. One of its conveniences, for example, is that ten square chains is an acre.

Home to a spot of grilled cod, as advertised at reference 5. Actually our second attempt. About seven minutes on each side, skin side first, brushed with melted butter. Not bad, but next time I will use fish bought fresh on the day: this was bought a week or so ago from the market man from Lowestoft, then frozen. It lacked the firm texture that I think I could have got with fresher fish. And maybe avoid the tail end.

Getting quite partial to grilled tomatoes again, topped with a little black pepper and rape seed oil. Something we used to have regularly years ago, but stopped for some reason.

Then a snooze, then onto the Toby Carvery at Ewell East for a celebration, one of a number going on there, early that evening. Reference 7 gives the idea. With the operation concentrated around London, Birmingham and Liverpool/Manchester. A few clusters elsewhere, but nothing north of Edinburgh and nothing in Northern Wales or Northern Ireland, let alone the other Ireland.

The Toby Carvery brand is one of the larger members of the Mitchells & Butlers group, which itself got into trouble in 2020 or so and is now 57% owned by a small consortium called Ozyzean, registered in the Virgin Islands.