We did about half coconut noticed at reference 2 before we gave up. After which I don't know quite what I was expecting, but I was a bit startled when I first removed the red wrapper.
The rather pale nut now visible; presumably a juvenile. The dark stains coming from our trusty blue steel kitchen knife. A knife which has served well, but I day say we will have to settle for stainless should we ever have to replace it - stainless being much harder to sharpen.
I suppose we could have used the coir for something horticultural, but actually it went into the brick compost bin. Maybe a rat will use it as nesting material? Do rats make nests in the wild?
Having a modest cheque from DVLA to pay in, we got BH's heritage paying in book out from its drawer. A veteran of the late 1980s - a veteran with which I was able to raise a smile when I presented it to the clerk at HSBC.
While this pick-up raised a smile with me. Fancy called your wheels deranged. A bit like, I suppose, calling your shop fat face. The cheerful young owner told me of all the delays to the demolition of the building left - in which I used, for many years, to get my hair cut - caused by the heritage people. Furthermore, either they, the railway people or both objected the to removal of the rough but sizeable granite blocks holding up the railway embankment. Granite blocks which I think date from the days when this yard was used by the builder grandfather of a once regular client, also a builder, of TB. A yard which might have been small, but which was handy for the railway.
The first trolley of the day was captured a bit further up Station Approach, near the top of the Kokoro Passage.
The second, visible beyond the first, was scored because it did not fit the first at all. Not even well enough to be wheeled across the market place.
The maker's plate on the second. For which Google turns up reference 3. Perhaps I have run what I call small and medium small to ground?
From the main catalogue, available to download as a pdf. There is a secondary catalogue for what Wanzl call secondary trolleys, which seems to mean those with plastic baskets - which do not seem to have caught on in our big supermarkets - plus the smaller of the two trolleys snapped above. Perhaps the secondary trolley catalogue is directed at the secondary store.
Picked up a 600g packet of Spanish cherries - Sweetheart - from Waitrose. Pretty good, maybe as many as one dud. Yet another cherry invented by the people in British Columbia. Cherries which were ripe, but with a very slight tartness which I rather liked. One could eat a lot of them before they palled. See reference 7.
At reference 2, I was puzzling about the number of petals of a Rose of Sharon. Was it five or was it six? This snap, taken from the same plant, is definitely five, confirmed by the five central lobes of purple.
As was this one. Maybe number of petals is not as reliable as I had thought. Handsome flowers though.
While at reference 3, I had been puzzling about was it yellow or was it purple? A puzzle nicely encapsulated in Stones Road by a clump of the two plants, one with yellow flowers and one with purple, which I now think I had conflated in memory.
A zoomed version of the purple. Which is not the cranesbill of reference 5, which was first came to mind. Google Images says stork's bill (Erodium cicutarium), but I am not completely convinced either by reference 6 or by the images turned up by Bing. There are quite a lot of small purple flowers about in the verges at the moment, so I must take a closer look at some of them.
The Screwfix whitebeam. I took a few blackberries left as I was passing.
The rain has brought out the fungi at the foot of a dead street tree - possibly a pink hawthorn, a variety which does not seem to do very well around here. Plus a miniature builder's hat, without its protective interior padding, now in the dressing-up box.
In the afternoon, the third trolley of the day from Fair Green, just by the small car park opposite what used to be the Eclipse public house. What I call medium small and what Wanzl might call the 100l Light, as per above. From the M&S food hall.
And the fourth and last from Station Approach. Blue car still holding onto its semi-legitimate, presumably not-paying, slot.
PS 1: sweetheart cherries were last noticed in December and were from the Argentine in the far south. I rather liked them then. See reference 8.
PS 2: rather later: poking 'purple' around, I turned up reference 9, where I find the wrong small purple flower (common wood sorrel, Oxalis articulata) and some more difficulty with petal number.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolley-932.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolleys-930-and-931.html.
Reference 3: https://www.wanzl.com/en_GB/products/trolleys/shopping-trolleys/various-shopping-trolleys/light-series~p1386.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-911-912-and-913.html.
Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/titbits.html.
Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium_cicutarium.
Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetheart_cherry.
Reference 8: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/12/fake-186.html.
Reference 9: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/trolley-673.html.
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