Do we have another unauthorised resident parker, to go with the blue one visible far left? The sign above the grey car to the left certainly forbids unauthorised parking. Not clear why Central Walk - name of this block - needs two doors onto Station Approach, one large and one small, this last being the one that is visible above.
My first trolley of the day, medium large from M&S, was captured in the gap between one of the T K Maxx segments and the cabelo hair people. Bing telling me that 'cabelo' is Brazilian Portuguese for hair.
They might have moved out of their Ashley Centre premises some years ago, to a new build down the road, but the doctors still have their sign up. A bit out of date in that at least two of the doctors listed have retired, one of them being the one that NHS Central have down as my GP. Furthermore, NHS Central don't seem to have been told that one does not seem to belong to a GP anymore, rather to a practise.
My second trolley was round the back, just by what was used as the entrance to the surgery during COVID, probably towards the end, when things were loosening up again. Quite near the goods entrance to Waitrose, no good for this medium small trolley from M&S.
Picking up a non-scoring friend on the way back to M&S. Across the way from the side entrance to Wetherspoon's. Perhaps abandoned by one of their customers?
My third was picked up between Jukes House and Defoe Court on East Street. A Sainsbury's trolley for a change.
My fourth, a large trolley from Sainsbury's was captured on the corner, by the new development at the top of Kiln Lane.
Some of the large leave ivy down the track to the footbridge over the railway. The larger leaves were around seven inches top to tail, along the central vein, using my telephone - itself six and thee eighths inches long - as a measuring stick.
My new book from Wisley, noticed at reference 2, may provide some insight into leaf size. Maybe more than Gemini managed a year or so ago.
A new line-up outside the Ford centre in Blenheim Road, with First Line Recovery making a serious pitch for their slot there.
Perhaps prompted by my having taken my Shan bag for an outing, I looked up the state of the Shan language in Ruhlen at reference 3 - to find a complicated and probably shifting story, with Burmese brigaded along with Karen, Chinese and others in the Sino-Tibetan phylum and Shan in the Daic part of the Austric phylum, along with Thai (aka Siamese) and Lao (aka Laotian). All illustrated by the map above. All making life in general rather complicated in that part of the world.
We shall see what, if anything Anderson has to say about it at reference 4, just started. I forget what put me onto this particular book, bought on or around 10th August, so perhaps something to do with reference 5. Anderson is quite hot on language - particularly cheap, big-circulation, printed language - being an important, but by no means the only, ingredient in modern national movements.
Joey curled up in the corner made by the newly trimmed leylandii. Seemingly asleep, out of the sun, despite it not being particularly warm.
Replaced by an out-of-focus black cat a little more than an hour later, facing into the hedge, presumably hoping for avian opportunity. Don't know if cats bother with bats, which we see flitting across the back lawn from time to time, at dusk, and quite probably roosting in the leylandii.
Followed by a very rare visit to Sainsbury's in the car to do a bit of heavy shopping. Given the rarity of such a visit and the rarity of a white-handled hire trolley at Sainsbury's, I thought it fair to score it as the fifth of the day. I have seen hire trolleys from Wanzl there before, but why? Surely Sainsbury's is a big enough operator to carry its own reserve stocks, rather than paying Wanzl to hire them?
See reference 9 for the only other such trolley that I could find on this volume of the record; noticed but not captured.
I might say that checking out lots of identical bottles requires concentration. It is very easy to miss one or, contrariwise, to do one twice - and it is a bit of a bother to check on the screen when there are more than half a dozen of them or so. At least so it seemed to me, and I don't think I did bother.
Followed by giving our side of our hawthorn hedge a trim, which occasioned deployment of tripod ladder, hedge trimmer and so forth. Including the new litter picker from Blenheim Road, much better for most purposes than the one I bought from Screwfix. The screwdriver was intended to help with cutting out some ivy which had got into the hedge from the other side, but I was defeated by thorns.
In the course of which, I noticed that some of the grass noticed at reference 6 was growing back again. When I try Google Images with a suitably cropped zoom, he fails. But when I tell him that we thought false brome before it was cut back, he says Guinea grass of reference 7, giving all sorts of good reasons.
And when I do the deep dive he changes again and says dallisgrass of reference 8, giving more good reasons. Unfortunately, unlike Gemini, he makes no attempt to say why he changed his mind, although one might infer something from what he does say. And Wikipedia says both are rather tropical or sub-tropical, so both seem a bit unlikely to me, despite the heat of August.
Gemini, of course, does not do pictures, at least not yet.
So not much further ahead, but hopefully BH will not get back to them too quickly.
PS 1: a bit later: I must have been a bit tired for this bit of projection to kick in. That is to say, a strong image of the face of a cat in a cushion, anthropomorphised with the face of a human. An image which lasted long enough to take this snap, in which the image can still be seen if you discount the right hand ear, behind and above. It remains surprising how strong such images can be, particularly first time around.
[Most British people still support the monarchy, though that number is falling - Getty Images]
PS 2: MSN offered the snap above this (Thursday) morning. Whatever kind of a country are we that we still have a couple of septuagenarians parading in such ridiculous hats? Hats which I believe are very uncomfortably heavy and it requires effort and practise to keep one's head up straight.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/trolleys-980-981-and-982.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/visitor-attraction.html.
Reference 3: A guide to the world's languages. Vol. 1: Classification – Merritt Ruhlen – 1987.
Reference 4: Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism - Benedict Anderson - 1983, 2016.
Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/kikuyu-affairs.html.
Reference 6: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/booting-up.html.
Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megathyrsus_maximus.
Reference 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paspalum_dilatatum.
Reference 9: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/01/dover-patrol-three.html.
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