Trolley 771

Back to the Kokoro Passage for a couple of B&M trolleys, after capturing the M&S trolley. One supposes that B&M are doing alright, the number of their trolleys that are left lying about town: a worthy successor to Wilkinson's.

I thought that two of the three or four available was enough for this first outing. Two of the same size, but not quite identical. I was reminded how awkward wheeling two trolleys over uneven ground can be - but I managed not to collide with anyone or anything in the course of returning them.

No plate from Wanzl as far as I could see, but there were the plates snapped above. Trolley Maintenance Services Ltd of Swindon.

Bing does not turn up a regular website for these people, but it does turn up entries in various listing products. And a modest looking operation in a place called Chicklade, near Swindon, a name we know from using the A303. Also the claim that the company has been going for twenty odd years, establishing a solid business in the Swindon area.

The B&M website give an address in Liverpool - The Vault, Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool - but they are very much the sort of business which might have a distribution warehouse in or near Swindon.

While Trolley Services appear to be operating from what appears to be a repurposed farm yard in the middle of the country. And the bridal people with whom they are co-located do have a website, at reference 3. It does not look like trolleys are made at this site, so they must get them in from somewhere else, perhaps the Spanish outfit noticed at reference 4. I must take a more careful look next time I have the opportunity.

Back in Epsom, the Library will remain closed until early May. At present, all you get is a desk out front. Let's hope that there is some library left when they have finished. I might not use the place much, but it is good to have it there.

The Picturehouse is open and looks still to be showing 'The Conclave' - or perhaps they have got it out again following the recent awards. Maybe we will get to it. We certainly thought about getting to it when it first came out.

Onto Waterstones to investigate John McGahern, whom BH has been reading recently, following a chance encounter with an adaptation of  'That They May Face the Rising Sun' on our smart TV. Noticed, for example, a long time ago at reference 6. A fine writer, if a bit dour - and I remember finding 'Amongst women' a bit much. Waterstones could only offer the book we already had, so over the road to Oxfam. They had nothing, but they did have 'All the pretty horses' from the McCormac of reference 7, which seemed to be another very violent tale, this one of south American drug smugglers. I passed.

Up past the creationists of East Street, where there was a Sainsbury's trolley, but I thought I had done enough for one day. So off down the Screwfix passage - where I had a brainwave.

We were scheduled to take haggis for main course followed by pineapple for dessert.

As per the two snaps above. But why not do Costa Rican style haggis sweet n'sour? One could scoop out some of the interior of the pineapple, fill the cavity with haggis and then cook the whole lot in the oven. Adjusting the proportion of pineapple to haggis to taste. I am sure one of those enthusiastic television cooks could sell such a combination.

In the event, we settled for doing it the regular way.

PS 1: I learned a fine new word from the television adaptation of McGahern, an affectionate term of abuse for the British: 'alphabetical', by which I think was meant that we were far too orderly, far too organised.

PS 2: in the margins of this post, I had been irritated by a pop-up from McAfee, a product which came (unnecessarily) preinstalled by HP on my Envy laptop. I uninstalled it, but uninstallation has left enough bits lying around for me to get scary pop-ups from time to time, threatening the end of PC life. Rather like the phone calls you get these days threatening the end of bank life unless you get out your credit card. So I thought to ask Gemini, the Google assistant, and he gave me a lot of waffle about this sort of thing. And I thought afterwards that maybe Gemini is good at this sort of thing. You don't expect a simple, correct answer to problems of this sort, although that would be an unexpected bonus. What you do expect is a whole lot of stuff to try, to get your mind working along the right lines. And in due course the problem might be solved. And it does not really matter if Gemini includes a lot of tosh along with the good stuff. Just the same as a real IT person. Just so long as it is not malicious tosh, resulting in real damage.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/trolley-770.html.

Reference 2: https://www.bmstores.co.uk/.

Reference 3: http://www.victoriamariebridal.co.uk/.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-interchange.html.

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

Reference 6: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2010/02/quartets.html.

Reference 7: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-road.html.

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