Trolley 734

Actually two trolleys, both from the council car park opposite the entrance to Epsom station, captured yesterday (Saturday) afternoon in the course of my second circuit.

The second came with various, still half-full tins and bottles. Easy enough to empty and dispose of, not an activity which needed rubber gloves or anything like that.

The trolleys had been preceded by a pair of fluffy slippers in Station Approach, perhaps the sort of thing that a young female might wear while clubbing? Just one of them snapped above.

And a pair of rather cheap looking handcuffs. Perhaps the whole lot came from the same well-oiled party on Friday night?

Wheeled the trolleys across to M&S where I found a lady taking some trouble to get her Zimmer frame into a trolley, followed by a bag of shopping, after which she proceeded to push the whole ensemble around the fairly busy aisles. I wondered how many people she was going to poke with the legs of her frame. Maybe she should have placed it fully upside down, rather than on its side?

Onto to the market, to find that the grand red and white lorry (of reference 2) which used to house the barking butcher has been downgraded to a van. Both from Perrys Meats. According to carcheck, a 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 313 CDI. Failed just one of six MOTs. Bodywork looks quite smart for a ten year old vehicle. Not so sure about the stuff inside.

According to Bing, plenty of Epsom Perry on Facebook. Not so sure about the Perry of reference 3, a veteran of Ginger Pig, a butcher I use from time to time. Unconfirmed sighting.

Carried on round the Screwfix passage, checking a suspect tree on the way, the tree with the fine fungus below, previously snapped at reference 4. I think the owner of the tree - whom I had passed on my first circuit - is starting to worry about the state of the trunk - despite the apparent health of the tree above. What is happening down there that there should be such a fine fungus? Is the tree going to fall down? Or perhaps he wants it down for some other reason. And then how would one of the many professional tree surgeons knocking around our part of Surrey investigate the matter, without taking the fence to pieces? Bore holes?

Is the fungus anything to do with the green litter bin still at the foot of the trunk back in October 2022 - this last according to Street View. Scar of bin and some root heave clearly visible under zoom.

PS: somewhere along the line, perhaps from the TV drama 'Joan', I have got the idea that 'brendas' is slang for handcuffs. Denied by Bing and Google. Denied by Gemini on the prompt 'Is there a word like 'brendas' which is slang for handcuffs'. So perhaps I misheard. But pushing Gemini a bit further, I get the reply snapped above. I was amused by its last suggestion. Clever stuff though.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/trolley-733.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/04/trolley-562.html.

Reference 3: https://oldspitalfieldsmarket.com/food-and-drink/perrys.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/screwfix-passage.html.

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