The first circuit of the day resulted in one trolley, an M&S trolley captured in the Kokoro Passage.
It was still hot, so umbrella carried against the sun. As it happened, I came across one other person, a young lady, carrying a sunshade in town. Not many of us about: perhaps most of us spend enough time in Spain (and other hotspots) to be able to cope with serious sun. Not, however, me.
Out of M&S, onto the market place, where I was surprised to find a parked-up tractor unit. What on earth was it doing there? A second or so later it dawned on me that it was there to take the climbing wall away - a climbing wall which I had thought was much more flimsy that it turns out to be around the back. Perhaps the tractor unit has a small flock of them which it looks after, on the market places of Surrey and beyond. But where is the fairground paint job? All the red, yellow and blue?
The Screwfix whitebeam. Maybe I need to charge one of the grandchildren with extracting all these whitebeam images, all taken from more or less the same spot, so that I can construct some kind of an art work out of them.
Noting in passing that the ivy cut away earlier in the year is having another go. To be tidied away next Spring.
A garden room coming on where there used to be a hedge. Precedent setting in that there are very few structures breaking the front building line on the Chase Estate. Perhaps enabled by being below the planning threshold for sheds. And assuming that you don't lose points for serious foundations.
That apart, we also lose a modest clump of brambles, from which I have taken blackberries in the past.
Registering near 80°F on our heritage thermometer in the roof of our garage on return. Must try and turn up the last time I noticed this thermometer. A test of search operator more than search.
On the way home, I had called in Screwfix to collect my micrometer - neither Halfords nor Wickes carried anything of the sort - with Halfords not being very good on tools - apart from sockets and spanners - at all.
Newly collected washer 'William' has now been catalogued, with the entry including thickness for the first time (1.69mm).
I also found that I did better with the Vernier on the calipers with the aid of the magnifying glass. Shouldn't really be necessary, but both of us are getting on a bit.
Delivered by some local fox to the path down to the brick compost heap. Bit of a mouthful I would have thought. Half metre scale lifted from the site of a 250,000 year old fire place in Suffolk.
Five out of ten for memory on that one. I did use Bing to check that I had got the name right and I had undershot the age by 150,000 years. But it is there at reference 2.
The second circuit started with police and recovery vehicle preparing to remove a car from the Eclipse Car Park on West Hill. Smart recovery vehicle, but not from our local outfit, First Line Recovery, noticed in these pages from time to time. Perhaps the police don't have a relationship with them.
Moved on to the large red lorry from Perry's meat parking up in the market square, presumably against the market the next day. There may have been a small white van in attendance, to stock him up. Probably the very one snapped above from Facebook. Without needing to log in, I hasten to add.
I have made at least one purchase from him, or perhaps his predecessor, in the past. A decent bit of fore rib that he had hanging off his rail. Not his usual line of business at all
Some large soft toys in the bushes between the Kokoro Passage and Cappadocia. Looked brand new and must have cost a few pounds, if perhaps not as much as you might pay for the real thing in John Lewis. Stolen then abandoned from B&M around the corner? Abandoned by some hen party the night before?
The next trolley from the front of Cappadocia.
And the last outside Schmidt, the kitchen people by the railway station. Can't see how they pay the rent there: one never seems to see any action.
Running a bit late by now, so took the short route home up West Hill and through Meadway. Picking up the handsome plant snapped above on the way. BH tells me that it is phlox.
Google Images offers plenty of choice - there are clearly plenty of flowering plants of this general appearance - but he does include two 'Phlox paniculata, variety Opalescence' in among his results, so BH might well be right. I shall pick a flower if I pass it again at a convenient moment.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolley-944.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/elementary-data-analysis.html.
Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/10/beeches-pit-one.html.
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