Trolley 199

Captured on the path running between the back of Sainsbury's Kiln Lane and the footbridge over the railway at the bottom of West Street.

Collected another one on the way back to base, not scored as it was within range of the Sainsbury's CCTV network.

Which led to thoughts about how hard it is to tie almost anything down; in this case the business of collecting trolleys. If there were a lot of money in trolleys one could get lawyers arguing endlessly about whether this trolley was collectible at all and, if it was, whether the collection was valid. For example, the idea is that one is not supposed to go looking for trolleys, one should just happen upon them. But how do you legislate for that sort of thing? I certainly do not always know whether my choice of route is trolley related and I don't suppose it is much easier for someone else to know for me. I suppose lawyers would have to devise rules which were a touch arbitrary, might only have a loose connection with the spirit of the thing, but which had the great advantage of being determinate. For example: a collection between the hours of 0900 and 1400 GMT was not valid, whatever. This is something on which one can make rulings.

So a total of four score trolleys for the day, one reject and one other. And only one to go for the bicentenary. Must be in with a chance of getting there in time for Sunday lunch.