Trolleys 974 and 975

First, an M&S medium small captured in the spot next to the blue car which parks next to the electricity box, previously noticed. Blue car present and correct, off-snap to the left.

Picking up two more of the same on the way down.

Second, went back to capture the trolley from B&M.

On my way back across the market square to Waitrose, I could not resist picking up this non-scoring trolley on the way, non-scoring because it was actually on the market square. I usually leave such for the store trolley-men. Having an excuse to leave their store, maybe they take the opportunity to make a few calls, to take a few puffs? A beverage even?

Picked up some Victoria plums from Waitrose and so home, back over West Hill (Meadway option). The plums once again from Baker of Gloucester. Reasonable on the first day, not good at all on the second, so BH stewed the balance on the third, that is to say today. Best before dates today and tomorrow. I might say that Victoria plums generally this year have been a bit disappointing: maybe they don't like the travel and don't like the cold store.

PS 1: today I have been confused by search. It taking more time that I care to admit to, including help from Gemini, to work out that, on a folder containing Word documents at least, Windows 11 does whole word search, Blogger does whole word search on blogs and Word does part word search on documents. That is to say this last finds 'creationist' if you search for 'reationis'. 

Without checking them properly, I thought that Gemini's responses contained more errors than usual. He also alleged that Windows search was a bit tricky, tuned for speed, and was not reliable in the way that one would expect, for example, an SQL search of a table in an SQL database. Fortunately, not a fact which I need to rely on.

All this in the context of reading about very accurate clocks at reference 2. I felt sure that this was something that I had noticed before, but diligent search has failed to find anything at all. While Bing search has turned up a lot of stuff about the clock that Mr. Bezos is building with some of the money he is making out of Amazon. For which see references 3 and 4. A clock which appears to be more for show than for work - and there is an accessible piece about working clocks to be found at reference 5, from the US equivalent of our National Physical Laboratory. There is also reference 6.

I did wonder about the book noticed (and still not quite finished) at reference 7. Inspection reveals that Mr. Strogatz does indeed talk about these very accurate clocks, but I don't think that this is what I am remembering. Maybe it will come back to me.

PS 2: plus my antique copy of 'The vicar of Wakefield' had turned up, and I am making good progress, to be reported on in due course. As previously advertised at reference 8.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/trolleys-972-and-973.html.

Reference 2: Inside the battle to protect time: Countries step up research into sophisticated clocks as wars and accidents expose vulnerabilities in crucial timing systems - Michael Peel, Charles Clover, Financial Times - 2025.

Reference 3: https://longnow.org/clock/.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now.

Reference 5: https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/keeping-time-nist. Keeping time at NIST - Mark Esser - 2020. 

Reference 6: https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2039.pdf.

Reference 7: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/02/deep-dive.html.

Reference 8: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/hate.html.

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