Trolleys 816 and 817

After a copious lunch yesterday, a stroll into town. My first capture was an M&S food hall trolley, outside the station.

In perfectly good working order, but looking a bit tired in the lower regions. So clearly not immune to pitting and rust, so presumably some kind of plated steel. Returned to a fairly full stack at the Ashley Centre entrance.

My second was from the car park behind the Rio Grill (now serving fish and chips again). A trolley in much better condition. By the time I got back to M&S, the stack had much thinned out, and my first trolley had gone, presumably to a customer than retired behind the shed (in the way of elderly locos in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories. Presumably not as popular now as they once were).

Back via Waterloo Road, where I noticed at least three people cleaning up the roof garden in the middle of the snap above. A roof garden that I have noticed before but will I be able to find it now? A roof garden on which I have yet to see residents lounging about, lazily sipping at cold drinks.

Three attempts on psmv5 and one on psmv4 have now failed. Once again, maybe if I take a break a more cunning search term will come to me.

PS 1: 19:30: I get there in the end. Too full of impromptu noodles to do anything more serious, I tried various search keys, with 'waterloo flat' coming up with reference 2. Bit like doing testing on a Friday afternoon. I think this post had come up before, with my skipping over it on the grounds that it was far too recent, but this time I paused long enough to see that it was what I was looking for. A few months ago rather than a few years. And the 'waterloo' in the search key was a reference to Waterloo Road rather than Waterloo Station. But no matter, it worked.

PS 2: still not sure about the details of blog search, but I think it is something close to whole word. Roughly speaking, the word in the key has to be in post, delimited by spaces or some other suitable special characters, for that post to be a hit. While the Edge 'find on page' feature does find text string, without regard to delimiters: 'elim' would find delimiter.

PS 3: skjhfduiyfuisdhjrebwrj elephant ostriches whales egg-plant trying. A quick test suggests that to find this post with blog search 'ostrich' and 'whale' need to be pluralised. Singular will not do. With the nonsense word serving to restrict the search results to at most this one post. And 'try' is not an acceptable substitute for the present participle. On the other hand, 'egg' without plant will do; the hyphen is an acceptable delimiter. Bit of thought needed at this point on how one might mount a proper test.

PS 4: on the search key 'skjhfduiyfuisdhjrebwrj elephant', Bing give me stuff about elephants. So although Edge knows about the nonsense word, it has not made that information available to Bing - although I think I have detected that sort of pass-through in the past. Google more or declines to play.

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/04/trolley-815.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/01/weaver-two.html.

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