The first circuit started with investigating the sewing shop on South Street. Were they into men's tailoring or did they just alter women's clothes? Shut at the time of the first visit, but I did at least establish that the shop was there and when it was likely to be opening.
On to Ebbisham Square, where, for once in a while, I captured a large trolley from the M&S food hall.
Taking the opportunity while in the food hall to take one of their small pineapples for a pound. It remains a mystery how such a large fruit can be delivered half way across the globe for so little. Furthermore, from quite a small country where one might think that agricultural land was a a premium.
Checking with Wikipedia, I find it has 5m people and 50,000sqkm of land compared with our 70m people and 250,000sqkm. So even allowing for a lot of hills, probably a better off for farming land than we are.
They also seem to have been into stone balls, rather different from the Scottish ones noticed at reference 2. To be looked into later.
It was quite hot by late morning, so I took a sit in Court Recreation Ground on the way home. To wonder why the tree on the left was so much taller than the mature oaks on the right. Must get a bit closer when it is a bit cooler.
The second circuit later that afternoon turned up a medium small trolley from the food hall from what used to be the creationists' smoking den. They now smoke out front, although to be fair, I do not catch them at it very often.
Unusual, in that the creationists usually favour Sainsbury's with their shopping. Looking at gmaps this morning, I would think that Sainsbury's is slightly further away than M&S, so it must be some combination of range, price and opening hours which attracts the creationists.
The sign above. When I was young, art students were very into this sort of thing - from where I associate to that hot bed of revolutionaries known as Hornsey Art College, to be found at reference 3.
Now absorbed into the Coleridge primary school, with the whole now being a rum looking place for such. Perhaps they were not allowed to just knock it down and start over with something more sensible. I remember there being more trees, but that must be an error, as I don't suppose that they would have been allowed to knock them down either.
When will we learn that recreational substances are better dealt with by the health system than the criminal justice one? In so far as one needs to deal with them at all. Maybe a spot of regulation would suffice in the case of cannabis - although, to be fair, the road to legalisation there has proved a bit rocky elsewhere - with Thailand getting into the news most recently. See, for example, reference 4. But I still think that legalisation is the way forward.
[People walk past a cannabis shop on Sukhumvit Road, one of the most popular tourist spots in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters]
For once in a while, gmaps fails me. It turns out that Sukhumvit Road is a very long road and I have failed to run down the shop above. Which may be on the Sukhumvit 77 Road - which may or may not be the same road. While from reference 5 I get:
'... Rip-roaring Sukhumvit Road is Bangkok’s boulevard of dreams and schemes. It’s not only the city’s longest thoroughfare but, stretching 490km southeast towards Cambodia, also one of the world’s longest main roads...'
PS 1: the second visit to the sewing shop established that they do do men's tailoring and they are now working on a pair of my trousers, by way of a try-out.
PS 2: the pineapple was fine, but we did discover, after a refrigeration accident, that pineapples do not freeze at all well. Just as well that it was just the stump by then.
Reference
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/06/trolley-891.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-carved-stone-balls-of-aberdeen.html.
Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsey_College_of_Art. Long list of alumni and teachers, a few of whom I have heard of.
Reference 5: https://thailandawaits.com/sukhumvit-road-bangkok/.
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