Needing to get home to attend to bread, I decided against returning for any of the six remaining, the handle lock of one of which appeared to have been forced with a screwdriver. Right mess. The things youth will do for the chance of a quid.
Then on the downside, somewhere along the way, I left my umbrella somewhere and none of the three places I had thought likely had it. So presumably someone who came after me had claimed it - something that I would do in the road but not in a shop. Let's hope that it has found a good home. Bought 37 trolleys ago, on the occasion noticed at reference 1.
While on the upside, I have very nearly finished my Christmas shopping. We have cheese from London. There is now enough flour for at least two more batches of bread - after today's that is. There are four packets of cooking dates. And we have the ingredients for the forthcoming Dundee cake. What more could one possibly want?
More upside was learning from Tech Repair - next to Lester Bowden here in Epsom - that the price of telephone batteries has fallen from getting on for £100 to £10. About which a cynic might say that since the telephone shops have lost most of the income stream arising from all those battery replacements, they have done a deal with the telephone companies whereby replacing the battery becomes a factory-only activity, so replacing the whole telephone becomes the only option for all those customers who don't like to wait. Thus taking said income stream back up to the previous level.
PS: a nugget of information for the geeks among us: according to the battery status part of Windows, all the power on my telephone was being eaten up by the Photos and OneDrive applications. I don't think I am doing more snapping than usual, so is OneDrive up to something, as part of Microsoft's programme of rolling updates? Are they doing something even cleverer with all those snaps?
Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/10/trolley-310.html.
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