Market day in Epsom, but no trolleys on the first circuit, just a pineapple and a couple of bunches of rhubarb. Plus a snap of the Screwfix whitebeam.
Zooming in to the top this morning, it rather looks as if I have managed to miss the flowers, despite regular photographs. Perhaps the trick is to look rather than to snap.
The haul. Rhubarb maybe £3.50 a bunch with the bunches being something more than a pound but less than a kilo. Proper green and red rhubarb in good thick stalks with a bit of body - not like the wimpish pink stuff you are offered at the beginning of the season.
Something more than half of it went in the cordial noticed at reference 2, the balance was stewed and went down very well cold yesterday.
The second circuit of the day produced a large trolley from the M&S food hall from underneath Hudson House.
The trolley was clean enough, but the chromium plating had clearly taken a beating over the years. Where on earth had it been? Returned to the stack in the usual way.
Spotted some good looking strawberries in the food hall and fell for 600g of them. From Arbroath (the smokie place) or Blairgowrie, both in the far north, so presumably grown under plastic or glass. See reference 3.
The Blairgowrie story according to OS.
Which was all well and good, but gmaps more informative on this occasion. Lots of polytunnels. And the odd holiday let - maybe with pick-your-own thrown in as an extra.
Very good they were too, taken with a little sugar. Unlike the strawberries on my childhood, very few of these ones had the white hulls which you pull out with the stalks - but that did not seem to matter.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/trolley-860.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/06/rhubarb.html.
Reference 3: https://lmporter.co.uk/.
Group search key: trolleysk, 20250529.
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