More trolleys

Trolley life might have become a bit intermittent, but it is still there, with another burst of activity yesterday morning, that is to say Thursday. 

First, an amuse bouche in town, that is to say picking up a trolley from M&S from near the Marquis of Granby. Then the idea had been to return home via the Screwfix underpass, but as it turned out the three trolleys in the vicinity of Victoria Place were too much for me. The challenge of wheeling three trolleys at once was too much for me.

Three trolleys might not sound like much to push, and they would not be much too push on a level surface, like the Sainsbury's car park at Kiln Lane, but on one of our bumpy and uneven walkways it is another matter. Keeping them moving, on the straight and narrow, without swerving into a parked car or anything else, can be quite challenging.

In the event, a first in that I managed to wheel all three trolleys up the middle of Middle Lane, without once needing to pull over for a passing car. The centre of the road being a much better place to wheel trolleys than the walkway. Snapped above from the northeastern end of the Lane.

I arrived at the main stack to find it empty of small trolleys, so one of them was taken in hand on arrival by an older lady - perhaps the same age as myself - who was pleased to get it, dented basket and all.

Picking up on the basket advertisements, visible in the snap above, a bonus is that I now know all about an Australian wine company at reference 2 and described more fully at reference 3, branded for nineteen of the crimes for which you could be transported to Australia in the 19th century. This was a form of progress in that, before that, these crimes carried the death penalty and juries were reluctant to convict.

While in the margins, I pick up more crime, in the form of the story at reference 4 about how a career criminal might well be elected to the Irish parliament.

I associate to the 'trickster' character, well known to collectors of myths and legends. Not to mention the more recent 'joker'. We seem to have a very ambivalent attitude to a lot of crime: not exactly on a par with fiddling one's tax, but tendencies in that direction.

And then there is Lévi-Strauss, whom I believe to have made much of the eternal tension, the structural tension, between the need to get on and the need to cooperate. Between sticking with one's own (endogamy) and interacting with the other (exogamy). Clearly time for breakfast.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/more-breaking-news.html.

Reference 2: https://global.19crimes.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.vannysvineyards.com/blog/the-true-story-of-the-19-crimes.

Reference 4: Irish gangster runs for former finance minister’s seat: Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch remains a wild card in May 22 vote for Dublin seat - Jude Webber, Financial Times - 2026.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss.

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