Two tier serration

A day which started with inspection of the sausages which we were due to take later that day. Luganega  style from the branch of Prezzemole & Vitale in Borough, two packets. Fine sausages which we have been eating from time to time for a while now.

I don't suppose that they were available when we had FIL with us, but I am sure he would have appreciated the change from his usual gluten-free fare - even though that was nowhere near as bad by the new millennium as it had been, back in the 1960s.

Over the hill, through the town and down Stones Road, where the convolvulus was looking well in the passage.

Plus two tier serrations on the leaves of what I took to be a hazel stem. Google Images agrees with me on the clue 'Alternate leaves on a young shoot of what I took to be hazel. Two tier serrations on the leaves, maybe a couple of inches across' and points me at Wikipedia (reference 1) which provides further corroboration. As does Bentham & Hooker.

Once again, odd that I had not noticed the two tier serration of the leaves before, having spent plenty of time over the years picking hazel nuts or otherwise tending hazel nut trees.

The only catch is that in both Wikipedia and Bentham and Hooker - but not Google Images - the leaves are described as downy on both sides, but in the snap, while zoom shows some very short bristles, I would not describe the upper side as downy. Stem yes, leaves no. Hmmm.

The Screwfix whitebeam.

Nearer home, some two tier faking. For some reason the top layer has held it colour rather better than the bottom layer.

The meat shop, which BH used for a while after we first moved here (and stopped because the banter with the ladies was not to her taste) and where I have spent of fair bit of money over the years, last noticed, for example, at references 2 and 3, looks set to become a coffee shop. Is there no end to the number of hairdressers and cafés that a town can support?

To be fair, for some years, there was a café next door, to the right in the snap above, now I think a nail clipping operation or something of that sort. Street View has yet to move on from the café.

Last up, a bit of verge repair to the newly new house noticed at reference 4. With the largest of the several patches snapped above.

A bit unlucky in their timing. BH noticed a load of turves being delivered the other day: perhaps the suppliers are not very flexible. Once you have ordered the stuff, it comes, rain or no rain. Will they bother to water it first and last thing? This being what it takes in the weather we are having just presently.

Cool enough in the evening to put in another short circuit, catching some rather different verge grass Throwing the seed ends at your companions was an important part of walking home from my primary school n the summer, the idea being to see how many you could get to stick. A lot of it about this year, having been fairly absent and looking rather well in the evening sunlight.

I remember it being called wild barley, but Google Images goes for wall barley or foxtail grass otherwise Hordeum murinum. maybe as children we had slipped from 'wall' to 'wild'?

On the other hand, reference 5 talks of barley grass, so maybe that is what we called it? 

In any event, I do not think I ever knew about the hazard to pets which Google Images majors on. Not mentioned in Wikipedia at reference 5, but it does get an outing with the fur people at reference 6. Known to me for pulling stunts with near naked ladies. Or has my memory gone adrift again?

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_avellana.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/01/off-piste-pudding.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2013/04/roast-beef-of-olde-england.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv6.blogspot.com/2026/06/d960.html.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hordeum_murinum.

Reference 6: https://www.peta.org.uk/news/weed-fatal-dogs-cats/.

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