Trolley 399

A Sainsbury's trolley, captured at the entrance to the British Gas site off East Street, I think the one that includes what look like a couple of disused gas holders. Where something was going down as a concrete mixer wagon was in attendance.

Front wheel lock present, but not deployed. I suspect Sainsbury's of having given up on these locks, with far fewer of their trolleys seeming to sport them. But see reference 3, from when I was taking more interest in the matter, at the back end of 2016.

Returned to the stacks at the Kiln Lane site, from where I took a new route home. Tweeting a thrush in some bushes on the way.

Back in Manor Green Road, the permissive skip (of reference 4) had taken a new load of masonry rubble and I was able to retrieve another brick, with one corner just slightly chipped. There was a loose pile of what looked like entire bricks next to the skip, perhaps intended for reuse or resale, and I thought better of having one of those.

On return, celebrated by a visit to Majestic Wine, where for our sauvignon blanc I broke half way out of the Villa Maria mould - at around £8 a pop - to try the new-to-us Waimea of reference 1 - at around £10 a pop. No reason for this particular brand, one of what seemed to be dozens available at the price, but the theory is that if Majestic charge more, it ought to be better. We shall see. On the downside they no longer had their own brand Calvados smelling of cider and I had to settle for something fancier from the Jean-Roger Groult of reference 2, who claims to have collected gongs for the best Calvados in the world in 2014 and 2016. Once again, we shall see.

PS: this late spurt means that I am back on course to make 400 trolleys by the end of this month. Making 500 by the end of the year still plausible.

Reference 1: https://www.waimeaestates.co.nz/.

Reference 2: https://www.calvados-groult.com/en/.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/12/trolley-security.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/01/fake-97.html.