Trolleys 882 and 883

This day's circuit started with a visit to the hospital on Dorking Road. But before that, a smart car carrying an FLR registration, which I thought had been more or less monopolised by the First Line Recovery people at reference 2, very much into such plates, some of which have been noticed in these pages, for example No.24. Carcheck says this one is a 2022 420D M Sport MHEV Auto, maybe £20,000 second hand, but gives no clue as to the owner, perhaps a younger son of the FLR family. Only given enough pocket money for '0007', rather than going the whole hog and getting '007'.

At the hospital, pleased to find that while the waiting room had been enabled so to do, both screens were off, and I was not treated to some daytime television about antiques, hotel inspection or some such. I could just quietly doze and await my turn.

Part of the time was occupied puzzling about this floor. I eventually decided that it was some kind of lino, printed up to look like the fake wooden floor boards you can buy flatpack in places like B&Q and Wickes. With there being several models of floor board, as it were, with regular repeats. The occasional grain matching across colour break was, I think, coincidence. A fake of a fake - but it looked well enough for all that. I suppose the next step would be to include debris like fag ends and matches in the cracks between the boards.

Out to capture a couple of trolleys from the M&S food hall outside TK Maxx. One medium small and one small, thus proving that these last really do exist, even if they are not very common. I treated myself to some cherries, the first of the season, for us anyway.

Then a trolley from B&M. Return of which to a cluttered front-of-store, occasioned a bit of muttered rudeness from a lady behind me, pushing another lady in a wheelchair, whom I had not noticed behind me. I suppose it was hot and she was tired.

Round Middle Lane, taking it slowly in the growing heat, and back through the Screwfix passage for the whitebeam.

English cherries, presumably grown on very small bushes under plastic.

Large and ripe in good condition with no duds. With both M&S and Waitrose being more reliable than the fruit man in the market as far as that goes. But perhaps a little too sweet and a little bland. Not many left by the following morning.

Angus Davidson is to be found at reference 6 - but I don't see the sea of polytunnels I was expecting in the snap from gmaps above. Perhaps the Google aeroplane (or drone these days?) went over at the wrong time of year. 

He also appears at reference 3, a fruit wholesale operation, but not in their growers lineup at reference 4. Perhaps his connection is more ad-hoc. Plus his cherries are a little early - at least according to the Landridge calendar, part of which is snapped above.

I suppose Landridge is comparable to the French distribution and marketing operations you get for wine, sitting between the small growers and the big buyers. And the online market.

PS 1: regarding registration plates, I am still stuck on No.39, which a chap at FLR told me was non-existent, despite having found No.38 and No.40 (not yet scored) being quite common, although not as common as No.44. I live in hope.

PS  2: Mexico has gone in for direct election of judges, prompting the piece at reference 7, the only country so to do, although in the US up north they do go in for direct election of some of the people in the justice system. See, for example, reference 8. While the lawyers - including barristers in this country - claim that they are not tainted by working for career criminals. Maybe even making a career out of career criminals. Hmmm.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/06/trolley-881.html.

Reference 2: https://www.firstline-recovery.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://langridgeorganic.com/. '... Our operational base is at new developed premises in Feltham. West London and comprises 17000 sq ft of warehouse space with two thirds of this refrigerated, from where we distribute nationally. From our beginnings marketing produce grown on our own farm, we now offer a wide range of local organic vegetables, fruit, dairy and other selected organic products from all over the world...'.

Reference 4: https://langridgeorganic.com/our-growers/uk/.

Reference 5: https://langridgeorganic.com/mandarin-or-clementine-whats-the-difference/. Read all about easy peelers. Supply of which from Sainsbury's is very mixed, with good ones and not so good ones.

Reference 6: https://www.haygrove.com/. '... Angus Davison, our founder and now ‘Eccentric Chairman’ begins growing strawberries as a degree thesis project on one hectare of rented land in Herefordshire, UK. Sleeping in the field....'.

Reference 7: El Chapo’s former lawyer to become Mexican penal judge after controversial election: Drug lord’s former attorney won vote after the government introduced elections for all the country’s judges - Christine Murray, Financial Times - 2025.

Reference 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_attorney.

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