Trees and so forth

A fine hawthorn in full flower on West Hill.

Busy Sunday market in town, a combination of farmer's market and collectibles. Farmers were represented by one stall selling fancy meat in small shrink wrap packets. But there was a selection of eatables, including no less that two stalls selling fancy chilli. Plenty of collectibles, quite a number of which we either still own or have owned. I could, for example, have had our two gallon galvanised steel watering can for £37.

The Screwfix whitebeam, with the flowers starting to visibly ripen.

A heritage Morris Minor in Blenheim Road, not far from the stranded recovery vehicle left from First Line Recovery, now in administration. What used to be called the receiver? Gemini's answer was not quite, but near enough for the likes of me. The start of his reply is snapped below.

The Morris Minor was known to Carcheck, although there was no MOT history; perhaps that has been transferred to chargeable. But I do now know that it dates from 1967, so not in bad condition considering, although there was some filler to be seen at the other end.

By the time of my second circuit in the afternoon, the market was starting to run down - with these amateurs putting in rather longer hours than the professionals - but the beer garden outside the Marquis and the terrace outside Wetherspoon's were both doing a good trade. 

I bagged a brace of large M&S trolleys, one from 2021 the other from 2025. 2021 being old for an M&S trolley.

The hoardings outside the new Big Yellow storage facility in East Street have come down, revealing the large concrete blocks which seem to be the way which such things are held up these days. No more post holes to be dug. 

But it looks as if they have missed their advertised 'early 2026' opening, with the snap bottom left generated by some drawing package rather than by a telephone. Lifted from reference 1.

The rose at No.1 Victoria Place was looking well this sunny afternoon. Looking well in Street View too, where the image is dated to just a year ago.

And at the Hook Road end of Longmead some red candles, as we used to call horse chestnut flowers when I was young. I remember there being some rather good ones in the vicinity of the Jesus Green Lido. This last now looking a bit tired; at least it was when we last went past, a few years ago now. A 100 yard pool with lawns, terraces and such which used to heave on summer afternoons. Maybe the young of today have got soft with all their foreign holidays.

PS: Marquis and Wetherspoon's not busy at all outside on the following day, that is to say Monday afternoon, when it was dull, overcast and cool. Maybe they were doing better inside.

References

Reference 1: https://www.bigyellow.co.uk/epsom-self-storage-units.

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