Two circuits

The morning circuit involved a modest amount of shopping, so I decided on the trolley.

With the first item of interest being a fine display of dandelions on the south facing bank to the western entrance to the West Hill rail bridge. The best display I have seen this year. One can only suppose that they like the sun.

Then heading back over Clay Hill Green, a fine display of celandines. Ours our coming out in the back garden, but they are not getting the sun that these ones do. Pity I failed to eliminate the shadow.

With a bonus being the arrival of the green alkanet. Perhaps a week earlier than last year's first sighting, noticed at reference 1.

I did try for an art shot of some handsome tulips, but once again the telephone could not really cope with the bright floral colours.

On the second circuit, I probably solved the blue-black car problem mentioned at reference 3 by the simple expedient of making a note of the registration number. After which carcheck tells me that what we have a 2025 BMW X3 XDrive20 M Sport MHEV blue auto. I guess the '25' in the registration number was a clue. Bing suggests of the order of £50,000 new - which is rather more than we plan to spend on our next car, assuming that is that we get as far as one. And I failed to find it in the depths of reference 4.

But at least on this occasion, my notion that black had changed to blue was actually correct.

Then having got through town, some of the white alkanet (?) which got me exercised about this time last year. This underneath the advertising hoarding at the top of Hook Road. For an episode from the last series, see reference 2.

Close up of same.

Much action at the old Majestic site.

While opposite, an office building which was given a wash and brush up last year, is now suggesting conversion to residential. Which I would have thought would cost a good deal - all those new services to be put in for a start - but presumably less than starting from scratch.

For the first time for a little while I made it to the Screwfix underpass. Looks rather more bright and cheerful in the snap above than it does in real life!

PS 1: the small and scruffy flyer snapped above was thrust into my hand by a young lady as I was crossing Hook Road, just before I got to the white alkanet (?). The god lot are going to have to do a bit better than this to catch this one.

Furthermore, I failed to make much sense of the address given bottom right.

PS 2: a correspondent has reminded me of the times we have stayed in the Beachcroft hotel, a few yards to the east of the Butlin's at Bognor, the place called 'Holiday Centre' in the snap above. Also that while Bognor itself might be a bit run down, like many another seaside resort, there is also some very fancy housing to both east and west, particularly west. See references 5 and 6 for some of this. Visits which failed to restart after the plague. Maybe this year?

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/trolley-667.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/white-alkanet.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/fishy-polesden.html.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_X3.

Reference 5: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/search?q=bognor. I notice here, along with Bognor, what appears to be an unscored Wellingtonia at Petworth.

Reference 6: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/search?q=bognor.