Trolleys 956, 957 and 958

The first trolley of the day was a medium trolley from the M&S food hall, captured by the bus stop outside Enterprise, at the town end of West Hill. Distinguished from the medium small by having an extra bar around the bottom of the basket.

As can be seen from this second trolley, captured outside T K Maxx, with just the one bar. A medium small.

Various runners to be seen in town and this marker in the Kokoro Passage. The sort of running which used to be called orienteering. Perhaps it still is. There was another such marker at the bottom of the steps leading down underneath Hudson House.

Further along the High Street, a tractor with a front-loader out front and a large, hay filled trailer behind. Presumably on its way to one of the stables up on the Downs.

At the start of East Street, the repairs to the clap-board house had nearly finished. Just the roof of the  porch to attend to. Repairs which must have cost in cash terms a lot more than the house cost when it was built. The builder told me very little brick was involved in its construction, not much more than the chimneys.

Late morning by now and quite hot, so I went to the length of crossing the road and walking up the shady southside of East Street to Kiln Lane. No sunshade on this occasion.

It being a Sunday, no builders out on the flats going up at the top of Kiln Lane, but I was reminded that they are to be called Thistle Court.

Who would think that there is a Tier 1 Sainsbury's right behind? And a busy road in front? Snap lifted from reference 2.

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Neither Bing nor Google seem to know much about 'Cheeca', but Google does turn up reference 3. Misprint by the waffle generator? But probably a bit too fancy for flats in a not particularly good part of Epsom.

Down through the Screwfix passage to inspect the whitebeam. In vicinity of which I was able to pick a small number of late blackberries. Big enough and some of them were a little overripe to my taste.

Some eye-catching flowering bushes outside a house opposite the Hook Road end of Blenheim Road. Presumably fakes, but I did not get close enough to be absolutely sure.

Zoom today more or less confirms first impressions.

Picked up some neighbourly apples on the way in, some green, some red blushed. I have eaten several of these last raw and very good they were too. Fresh, crisp and sharp, quite like the James Grieve I used to like as a child and have had occasionally since, quite unlike the sort of apples presently available in the big store.

While BH had picked up a 1917 penny, an old penny that is to say, just surfaced in the flower bed outside our front wall. It must have been there quite a long time - and I can only suppose that interesting forces in our clayey soil gradually pushed it back up to the surface.

Later in the day, a second circuit produced this M&S trolley from Station Approach.

Which found a friend at the top of the Kokoro Passage. Plus a young person sitting in a shady spot, back right, above the trolley handle. I did not like to inquire.

Proceedings closed by recording the presence of this Sainsbury's special needs trolley in Stones Road. Not captured on this occasion, but marked down for another. Will it still be there? Will some passing member of the Sainsbury's team pick it up on his or her way in in the morning? I dare a decent number come across from the Longmead Estate.

PS: the white, Autumn cyclamen are coming out at the top of the garden. That is to say, at the back, near the brick compost heap. Have to stop myself saying 'down the garden' which was always where my father was when he was gardening in his back garden when I was a child, even though, in his case, the garden was quite flat, with neither up nor down.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolley-955.html.

Reference 2: https://macgroupltd.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://checawoid.com/. 'Designing extraordinary experiences in hospitality and residential interiors is Checa Woid’s passion ... A female driven studio, designing tailor made unique spaces full of charm and identity – for hospitality spaces people will talk about tomorrow'.

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