Pets and more

We used to have a Dagenham Motors along East Street, living in a dull but decent block, probably built in the 60's or 70's of the last century. The very place from where we bought our current car.

However, Ford have now consolidated their North Surrey footprint in a rebuilt shed at Blenheim Road (the main road through the industrial part of the Longmead Estate), leaving the way clear for pets to move into East Street, as illustrated. It all seems rather loud at the moment, but maybe I will get used to it. In the meantime, I am impressed that google streetview has already caught up with Dagenham Motors moving out, not so many weeks ago, even if it has not caught up with pets moving in.

Carrying on round the Ewell Village Clockwise, I did not count the Ewell West bike shed on this occasion, but I did find some starlings in their tree down Longmead Road. Not as many as the occasion noticed at reference 1, but enough to maintain their footing in the stand of trees concerned.

While down below there was another sighting of the shopping trolley collection van, which might go to explain why I have not found any trolleys recently. I failed to whip the telephone out fast enough to record the name on the van, so the best I can do is that while the van was decorated with various government logos, it was not actually a government van. Perhaps it was one of those working in partnership with operations - code words for the privatised versions of local government services.

And lastly, a little upstream from the starlings, I was pleased to see that the mistletoe colony in another stand of trees is still there, visible again now that most of the leaves are down. Slow growing stuff, first noticed just about four years ago at reference 2, not a patch on that noticed at reference 3. Perhaps this last does better being near a real river rather than a feeble stream. With, as it happens, the arrival of the stream in the river being just a few hundred yards from the mistletoe.

PS: are the pets people going to reinstate the pavement at the left of the illustration? Taken down by the Ford people for their vehicle exit. Sad to say, memory no longer clear on whether it had been used as such in recent years. I think not, but I would not like to put money on it.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/murmuration.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/jigsaw-3-series-2.html.

Reference 3: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/nasty-bug-down-at-court.html.