Trolley 824

Saturday morning saw my usual walk over the hill and through town, quite quiet on this occasion. Managed a couple of errands for BH, but no trolleys to be seen.

But there were a lot of girls - top primary I should think - milling around on the pavement by the Los Amigos café, whooping and cheering at the passing cars, who seemed to be taking it in good part. There were also a good number of adults, presumably parents, one of whom explained that there had been a fire alarm at the Laine School of Theatre Arts, busy with dance classes for civilians (as it were) on Saturday mornings.

I associated to the time when I cycled past one cold winter's morning and a whole lot of older girls had been turned out by a fire alarm, stripped down to their dancing gear. All huddled together like those nature pictures you see of penguins in the winter down south. An event I have failed to trace in the archive  - but, hopefully, based on the truth.

Down Middle Lane and through the Screwfix passage to find that someone had needed a bin for their boxes and tinnies and fished the trolley noticed at reference 2 out of the stream for the purpose.

Wheeling it home to dispose of the litter and to give it a modest wash & brush up, I was surprised how much extra noise the tinnies made, a sort of more or less continuous, low rumbling noise.

A few gardening jobs followed, in the course of which I noticed this cuckoo pint flower. The outer spathe is in one piece, which is unusual for us when they are as big as this, but something seems to have happened to the top of the inner spadix. I shall take another look in due course.

While inside I discovered that, without my noticing it, the aloe in the front room, aka the triffid, had come into flower again. Telephone not playing the game though: I did tap the flower head, but it thought I was interested in the stuff behind. Another try in due course. Maybe draw the curtain? Maybe paste a sheet of suitable paper on the window behind?

The telephone did rather better on the base of the flower shoot, visible right, just to the left of a leaf, more or less at right angles to the orchid straying across the frame.

Maybe a fortnight earlier than last year, as noticed at reference 3.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/trolleys-822-and-823.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/04/trolleys-820-and-821.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/06/last-hurrah.html.

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