Trolley 810

Trolley 810 was captured in the Kokoro Passage this morning and returned to B&M.

In the course of this, I noticed a lorry from Dulux paint pulling out of the car parking deck which I assumed provided the goods entrance to B&M. The search at reference 2 reveals that B&M does indeed sell Dulux paint and I cannot think of anywhere else anywhere near which would. I was slightly surprised that they still find it worthwhile to run their own lorries, their paint not being something you see so much of these days, with the demise of most exterior woodwork.

A little later, I was waiting in the hairdresser and I was trying to reconstruct in my mind the car parking deck the lorry had come out of, getting stuck with the car park which used to service the Sainsbury's store where T K Maxx now is (left hand orange spot in the snap above). Which did not seem quite right but that was the best I could do.

Checking this afternoon, I have been reminded that there are two car parking decks off Station Approach and the other one (right hand orange spot in the snap above) does indeed look to provide access to B&M, the large building below and to the right.

Slightly alarming that I failed to reconstruct this while in the hairdresser, despite my having walked up Station Approach very regularly for years and years.

Haircut done, I thought that hot beef sandwiches were in order for lunch, picking up a small piece of fillet steak (190g) and a packet of French beans (from Egypt) from the M&S food hall for the purpose. BH had already bought a small white bloomer from Sainsbury's. She had also put out a modest portion of mushrooms which needed using up.

I cut the steak into strips, perhaps a quarter of an inch thick and fried them in a little butter, with the lid on. Adding the mushrooms after a few minutes. Beans boiled for four minutes.

Beans OK, but not particularly flavourful. Mushrooms good, despite being a little tired, mainly taken in the form of small sandwiches, without (extra) butter or anything else of that sort. The beef was OK, but, curiously, tasted much more like the roast beef you sometimes used to be able to get in rolls in public houses than steak. Maybe it did not help that it was very lean. Maybe low temperature cooking in butter was not what a proper chef would have done. The bread was OK, fresh but not much like white bread from a real baker, such as is near extinct in our neighbourhood. At least it had not fallen prey to the sour dough disease.

PS: the brown bread I make has its points, but hot meat sandwiches is not one of them. Bananas or cheese yes, hot meat no. I did not even try on this occasion.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/04/trolley-807-808-and-809.html.

Reference 2: https://www.bmstores.co.uk/search?query=dulux.

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