The trolley that I had abandoned a couple of days previously was, in the event, still there, tucked behing the old sycamore tree at the entrance to the Screwfix passage.
Before that, the view down Blenheim Road made me think that the Ford people had somehow managed to get the First Line Recovery people out of their face, blocking their parking of trucks by parking their own cars. But this turned out to be an error. The Ford people had indeed parked their cars outside the near half (in the snap) of their frontage, but First Line had simply moved back to the far half.
Deposited the trolley at Sainsbury's, then back into town, where I captured the first M&S trolley of the morning by the side of the Rio Grill, the place that used to be a quite decent chipper.
Two more followed from the Kokoro Passage. Along the way I had called in Waterstones, vaguely thinking that I might buy the Timothy Snyder book about freedom, advertised in a recent number of the NYRB. A historian who made his name with a book called Badlands - about the killing grounds between Europe and Russia - and who has since wrote a number of short books of popular history and reflection. Waterstones had a couple of them, but I did not like the look of them much, and they did not have the book in question. So I ended up buying the book above, some of which is about George Orwell and his first wife, by one Anna Funder, whom I had come across before. Rather surprised this morning to find that this was more than ten years ago, but noticed at reference 4. I had forgotten the Toller angle. And I had forgotten, if I ever knew, that Orwell had two wives, the second only arriving rather late in the day. And I had thought that I knew all about the chap. BH now busy with this second book.
While the afternoon stroll produced another yet trolley from the M&S food hall. Which I took from an older lady who was just taking her shopping out, prior, I imagine, to heading off to the railway station. I think she thought I was being a bit pushy and unnecessary. The bay in the council car park opposite the station might well have been a designated trolley return spot.
Three quarters of the way to the lifetime target of 1,000 trolleys.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/11/trolley-746.html.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder.
Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Snyder. A rather different sort of snyder, turned up by Bing in first preference.
Reference 4: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2011/09/tollerfest.html.
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