Another water meter leak on West Hill. One starts to wonder whether the Thames Water drive to get us all on meters was pushed through too fast and too cheap: there do seem to be a lot of leaks, but I imagine statistics are very much commercial-in-confidence. Shadow of sunshade visible bottom right.
The first trolley of the day was a B&M trolley from the Kokoro Passage.
While the second was the Lidl trolley noticed at the end of reference 1. It had moved slightly since.
Called in at the Library to return some books, casting an eye over the books for sale trolley while I was at it.
To find a nicely produced visual dictionary from the DK stable. Possibly good for a suitable child, although they might do everything on their computers these days and not be much into books. I was tempted at £3 but it was quite heavy and it was quite hot. So I passed.
On with the trolley, which was not very big but quite awkward to walk, with one's feet tending to snag on the folding child platform below the handle. Not really suitable for walking the streets.
And then, just I was going into the Lidl car park, the front wheel locked. It had some contraption attached to it, rather in the way of some Sainsbury's trolley, and maybe it locked going past some detector post, intended to catch trolleys going in the other direction. But not far to pull with the front wheels up, and by the time I got to the stacks inside the entrance the lock had gone off again.
Into the store where there were no Guardians to be seen on the news stand, but I did fall for some tomatoes and a big bottle of Oasis, something I think I last tried and rather liked when camping in France, a long time ago now. Oasis not bad, better cold than room temperature, but tasting rather more of flavourings and sweeteners than the oranges and lemons the packaging majored on.
Home to turkey leg loaf, courgettes and potatoes. Plus some celery knocked up by myself. Butter, onions, celery and tomatoes, in that order. About 45 minutes start to finish.
Later on, my third was the small trolley from the M&S food hall in the Kokoro Passage noticed above. Quite rare.
And so to TB for a spot of bottled Abbot, which I now know has a malty with fruit cake character. The stuff that the food and drink packaging people come up with.
We also had a spot of bad language - gross even - in the other bar, reverberating to the extent of it still going on past Costcutter when I was on my way home.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-899-900-and-901.html.
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