Trolleys 952, 953 and 954

My first was from Station Approach, a little before one gets to the station from the West Hill end. A medium small trolley from the M&S food hall.

Which picked up a friend before I got under Hudson House. A friend which supplied a blue arm sling, I think more or less all there, which will be a useful addition to the dressing-up box, medical games of one sort or another being all the thing.

Shortly followed by a B&M trolley from a bit further along Station Approach. It did not occur to me at the time that the window impact adjacent was at just the right height to be the result of the corner of the trolley being bashed against the window by some late-night youth, perhaps a little the worse for wear? Perhaps just investigating whether it could be done? Was there a connection here?

While my third was from the edge of the market square, not usually allowed, but allowed on this occasion because I capture so few Waitrose trolleys these days. Perhaps M&S have captured the bus trade.

Celebrated with some Reeves plums from Waitrose, from Baker of Gloucestershire. Possibly the best plums of the year yet.

Bing got stuck on the baking sort of baker, but Google managed to break through that, turning up reference 2. I think the brown tucked in under the M50, with a side-line in stables below and to the right. Not much interested in websites, so perhaps he only bothers because Waitrose said that he had to.

A little later, a touch of class added to the appearance of our house. For the benefit of the various neighbours known to be interested in cars. I have noticed previously that the wagons bringing in steel to the Majestic site in East Street from up-north, still look very bright and clean after their long journeys. Perhaps there is not so much dirt & dust on our roads these days.

Google Images offers a number of Morgan Plus-4s, which is the right answer. While real men don't have roll bars.

For some reason I now forget, the conversation moved onto the gold (actually silver as it turned out) of Combe Martin, said to have been used by one of kings, possibly Edward I, to make his new wife a present of her weight in gold. I now remember doing the sum - in silver - and finding that it was not as an extravagant present as I had at first thought. Before then though, I thought to ask both Bing and Google about all this, to no avail. I then turned to Gemini, with the end of my interchange with him snapped above.

He had came up with what struck me as a rather more likely version of the story than that I had remembered, possibly derived, many years ago, from the sort of flier you pick up for attractions in holiday areas. A bit vague though about exactly where he got his information from - so I had another go with Bing.

But I can't see myself getting to Kew to check things out there, interesting though that might be. Medieval accountants' Latin in manuscript on parchment? Wrong Edward in the snap above, although I dare say they do other Edwards.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolley-951.html.

Reference 2: https://fairfieldsfarms.com/.

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