Trolley 804

Another trolley from the M&S foodhall, this one captured outside T K Maxx. Returned to a near empty stack, after which I proceeded to a spot of shopping. Red grapefruit, lemons and middle sized red grapes. These last having not greatly cared for the small black grapes which we had taken from Sainsbury's the day before: a bitter aftertaste to the skins that I did not care for. Grapes which I think M&S calls sable. Bitterness which is denied at reference 2.

However, I forgot tomatoes, having recently acquired a taste for taking same grilled with a spot of black pepper and rape seed oil. All part, I suppose, of gaming the low fluid regime.

While yesterday, down the bottom of the garden, the first sighting of the year of our yellow archangels. More specifically the variegated yellow archangel (Lamium galeobdolon subsp. argentatum), an exotic from central Europe, for which see reference 3.

Wikipedia says that the use of the word in a botanical rather than an angelic sense is old, which is confirmed by OED, which goes back to before the Conquest. It also adds a couple of birds, one small and one large. Not to mention the black stinking horehound. Wikipedia knows about that one too, although he does not make the connection. See reference 4.

Then this morning, while I was posting this, we had one of the local cats keeping an eye on the local small bird population: you can clearly have too much of a good thing. I understand that our cat loving neighbours get lots of birdy presents from their cats - which, oddly, does not seem to put them off cats. I suppose I should at least have opened the window and seen this one off.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/trolley-803.html.

Reference 2: https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/sable/.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_galeobdolon.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballota_nigra.

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