Three M&S food hall trolleys, picked up from three different places around the town. The first from the bottom of the ramp leading up from the Kokoro Passage to Station Approach.
The second, previously spurned, from the car park which one accesses from the Rio Grill. A very small trolley, but for some reason popular this day, as I saw several in action in the store.
The third from outside Lloyds Bank at the central crossroads.
The timber window frame was interesting in that it appeared to be neither original nor double glazed. Nor could it, or any part of it, be opened. Perhaps that is normal for bank windows like this one.
After returning this trolley, I am fairly sure I saw the second one in action in the store - with the paint on the front leg being much less conspicuous in the artificial light there than it had been outside.
Along the way, I was reminded what a bright and cheerful place the Ashley Centre is. There may be a few gaps, but there are still plenty of people about and there is a good atmosphere. Whoever built the place and whoever has run it since knew their business: I believe that it has succeeded and survived in a way that many similar places have not. But the loss of Smiths, should that come to pass, would be a bit of a blow, as was the loss of Dickens & Jones.
And the column above looks much better for being wrapped up again. The raw concrete with its profusion of ancient fixing holes had looked a bit sad. Which I thought had been noticed before, but I have failed to find any such post this morning.
Back in the open, it was a bright sunny morning, so I took a sit in the sun on a bench in Court Recreation Ground. All very pleasant - and including an opportunity to eavesdrop on chunks of conversation of passers-by. Conversations which one could hear as the people concerned approached, but not as they departed. Which must have been to do with the direction of projection, rather than seeing mouths, as I was looking out over the recreation ground and they were behind me.
Out to learn that I had forgotten all about the bowling green which used to be next to that was the groundsman's house and was now a vet's. It took me more than an hour to bring it back into mind. It had probably paused during Covid and failed to recover afterwards.
We also had a chap from Thames Water who appeared to be taking a census of their drain covers with the help of his mobile phone. All part of the maintenance record no doubt.
And to find a serious gas flavoured hole being dug outside TB. Opening maybe two feet by three feet and three feet deep. Nothing to be seen at the bottom of the hole and nobody about to ask.
Later the same day, a short circuit took in the Meadway roundabout, where I was pleased to see that three new trees had been planted to replace the stumps that had been grubbed up a few days previously. Probably small ornamentals rather than timber trees.
We shall see how they get on.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/trolley-783.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/trolley-782.html.
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