Trolley 531

A regular trolley, after the funerary trolley of reference 1. A trolley from the M&S food hall, lodged between a couple of the street food sheds of Ebbisham Square. One of the sheds was probably still functional, perhaps kept in business by the entrance to the square being a herding ground for fast food delivery people - men, boys and women.

The was a girl's black evening bag in the trolley, fairly gaudy, fairly new, now empty and with one end of the strap ripped out of its attachment to the bag. Perhaps the subject of an evening bag-snatch? In any event, left behind on the folding chairs behind.

Monarchists will be pleased to learn that there was a book of condolence in the Ashley Centre, set up outside the now closed Dickens & Jones, complete with a small queue. While I wondered about the status of the book and by whose authority it had been set up. Will it become, in due course, one of the town's treasures, for occasional public exhibition, or will all such books be deposited with the National Archives as part of our national posterity? Or perhaps all buried, complete with a suitable stone memorial on top, in Windsor Great Park?

The stack at M&S contained only large trolleys, so I don't suppose that this small trolley was going to have to wait long for a shopper to take it in charge. BH tells me that small trolleys are in similarly short supply at Waitrose, where they keep a small stash for the use of discerning customers, hidden by the exit. Thinking about it this morning, small trolleys are much easier to push around the pavements outside, so it seems probable that they are going to stray further and for longer. Leaving their owning stores with short supplies of same.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/09/trolley-530.html.

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