Trolleys 923 and 924

This afternoon circuit started with the best blackberries yet, outside Epsom Autos on West Hill. Or, if you prefer, outside Crossfit or next to the Enterprise overflow car park. Maybe also near our wills, as TWM have some storage sheds there too.

Crossfit seem to be doing quite well, having not been there that long, with a lot more, mainly young, people in gym gear to be seen around West Hill these days. Confused by there being talk of Ascension Training at the bottom of reference 2, with a website which does not appear to exist. Probably not the real estate finance training company, but possibly the rather odd looking one at reference 3.

I picked up the first trolley at the Station Approach end of the Kokoro Passage, the top end.

Which rapidly became three. I was a bit unsure about wheeling three at once, not something I have done for a while, but in the event it was fine. Best to take it reasonably slowly when there are people about or when one is not on the flat. The walking stick turned out to be a handy gadget for holding the string together.

After which I headed off for East Street to pick up my second by the sign of the cannabis, complete with rat trap left, thus routing me back through town, rather than through the Screwfix Passage.

Taking in a pint of Abbot at Wetherspoon's on the way through. Just about twice the price of its IPA sibling - and as it happened, I would have been better off with the IPA. For some reason, perhaps the time of day - around 17:00 - the Abbot seemed a bit strong, not quite the taste I was looking for.

On the way home, I passed a house with four Fords parked on the front standing. Not usually the sort of thing that I would notice, but with car purchase in the air, much more sensitive to this sort of thing. I wonder if they get some special deal from the Ford people?

PS: I was interested to read this morning at reference 4 about what appears to be abuse of a legal device, a device which is reasonable enough in itself, in China. To wit, stopping people from leaving the country, some proportion of them not Chinese citizens, perhaps without telling them before they try so to do. Reasonable when you have every reason to believe that a villain will do a runner before his case comes to court - but unreasonable if just used as a wheeze for getting at people, perhaps for political reasons. Not in the same league as chucking people out of windows in Russia, although the numbers involved are probably much larger. I associate to the days of the trading entrepôts of the Renaissance era - both Christian and Muslim - which thrived because they had accessible and visible (commercial) law which applied to all.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-921-and-922.html.

Reference 2: https://www.crossfitepsom.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://www.ascensiontraining.org/.

Reference 4: ‘Pervasive sense of fear’: China steps up exit bans as US tensions flare: Opaque restrictions risk damaging business confidence, experts and investors warn - Ryan McMorrow, Cheng Leng, Financial Times - 2025.

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