Trolley 782

Trolley 782 was captured on a late afternoon expedition to the car park underneath the flats opposite the entrance to the railway station. The car park which leads to what was the 'Plaice to Eat' and is now the 'Rio Grill'. Which last seems to be doing OK: there are usually people there.

In the event, I left the small M&S trolley, partly because one leg was covered with paint and they might not have wanted it in the store but more because I was concerned that it might jam onto the Waitrose trolley which was slightly larger.

Noticed on the way past Grape Tree that brick dates (from Collompton) seemed to have gone missing from their shelves. We have not been using as many of late as we had been, but it remains the only place I know where they can be bought. Much better value for our purposes than the sort of dates that you can buy in the supermarkets.

Took the Court Rec route home for some reason, perhaps because I was a little late. Where there was a sociable incident involving two school girls recovered a very long string of beads from the branch of a small tree. Proudly carried home, but whether they went on to get any use out of them is another matter.

Took a little wine later in the evening in order to give the suction closure, last noticed towards the end of reference 2, another test. For some reason, I got on really well with this white wine, finding it to be a very good wine indeed.

Bing turns up reference 3 on 'Racines Les Cailloux du Paradis' fast enough. Bought by me from reference 4. The right place, but not offering this particular wine just presently. Plus, perhaps being organic and small, he does not care to put the effort into his website that the bigger operations manage, with arty shots of hillside vines in the drifting mist.

The wine can however be sourced from wine merchants, such as the one above. Very natural and very organic. I didn't get the red badge, but on the other hand, I didn't pay nearly 40 euros a bottle for it either. At least, I don't think I did. Note the absence of capsule, first noticed in drinksbusiness, then at Waitrose. For which see reference 5.

The stopper, aka closure, worked fine, with a satisfactorily positive click after a few strokes of the pump.

PS: reference 6, the source of the snap above, is one of those websites which trigger unwanted interactions between the image on the screen and the Microsoft Snipping Tool. You don't always get what you see.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/trolleys-780-and-781.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/bens-beef.html.

Reference 3: https://www.lescaillouxduparadis.fr/contact/.

Reference 4: https://shop.lescaves.co.uk/lescaves-shopfront.

Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/12/salt-and-vinegar.html.

Reference 6: https://www.idealwine.com/fr.

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