Trolley 420

The trolley, by gas light

Another flash in the trolley pan, with trolley 420 collected yesterday evening from the grass bank leading into the railway bridge over West Street. The one which flooded again the other day, after the heavy rain. Something which used to happen regularly in the olden days - until one day, when they did something clever to the drain, since when, as far as I can recall, it has been pretty good. Perhaps it is just a large soakaway drilled into the chalk below which needs to be cleaned out every ten years or so, cleaned out of all the mud, grit and rubbish which washes down into it from West Hill.

The location, by day light

A bit over a month since the last trolley, this one from M&S had been lying on the bank for a few days, but it seemed best to wait until the traffic died down in the evening before recovering it. With the post visible in the first of the snaps above being the one decorated with two yellow signs in the second. With this second snap giving a rather misleading impression of the distances involved, with camera to bridge appearing a lot further than it really is. Perhaps because, to the naked eye, the bridge would seem much larger than it does here. A cunning trick of our brain's optical arrangements.

A small trolley which was not labelled 'food hall' in the usual way, but which was labelled 'M&S', so left outside their front door, hopefully to be returned to its stack when they open in the morning. Having been out in the rain and untouched (except by me) for a couple of days, it should not need sterilising or hosing down with disinfectant. Not that they are going to know that.

Another possibility is that one of the parties of happy young people who were loitering about the market square will have thought it a good jape to take it for another walk.

But a score for me, nonetheless. And to think that six months ago I was pushing to make the half millennium by my birthday, and failing that, by advent.

PS: note that the recent shift to UTC (formerly GMT) from summer time, has shifted the days kept by Blogger. This post would have scored to last thing Tuesday, not first thing Wednesday, in summer time. 

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/09/trolley-419.html.