Trolley 835, a medium small trolley from the M&S food hall, was captured at a shady spot in Station Approach.
The next item of interest was a young lady in bright blue - perhaps royal blue - leggings and skimpy top heading east along the High Street. Noticeable because she seemed to have an unusually long stride. Was this something one worked on in fitness classes? In any event, she outpaced me by a substantial margin.
The trolley which I had had to abandon the day before, mentioned at reference 1, had gone. Another collector had been on his rounds?
And after that this flashy looking bright blue car at the start of East Street. Car Check says a 2022 'Lamborghini Huracán STO 4X2 S-A', while Google Images says 'Lamborghini Huracán LP640-2 STO'. Engine of a bit more than 5 litres, so presumably it has a reasonable turn of speed, just the thing for accelerating away from the lights. I learn from reference 2 that the Italian police use them, which seems a little extravagant - given that you can pay well over £250,000 for one.
The creationists of East Street, having once been a reliable source of trolleys from Sainsbury's, have been very quiet of late, but on this day they could offer a small but complicated trolley from Lidl. A trolley which turned out to be quite awkward to push, at least on pavements, with the back wheels to close together for comfort, or at least in the wrong position for me.
Over the bridge in Church Road - the road which does indeed contain a church, but presently to let.
The blue hoarding in the distance is the former Dairy Crest depot, the subject of planning application 23/00402/FUL, allowed on appeal. So it looks as if we are to have a shiny new Aldi, just up the road from the Lidl that I was headed for. Sucking still more life out of town centre proper, with its Waitrose and M&S food hall?
I dare say that a case was made for the new store - see, for example, reference 3 - but it all looks terribly wasteful to me. All an unnecessary burning up of resources from a planet which is already a bit stressed. Not least on the planning process itself!
That apart, trolley returned to Lidl, where the complicated handle lock failed to deliver either coin or token. I then went up the ramp to the store, then decided I couldn't face going in and came down the ramp, and across the road to the rather pleasanter ambience of Ben the Butcher for a few short ribs, to be reported on in due course.
Reasonably heavy, so I took the short way home, down Hook Road. To find that work on the outside of the Muslim centre, seemingly stalled, has now moved inside.
The pavement in this part of Hook Road is reasonably narrow, and I was quite startled by a bus passing me at speed - and rather too close for comfort. Not sure what he could have done though - it seems a bit much to expect him to slow down to pass me and honking can make things worse rather than better.
While I passed another trolley from Lidl, the same model as the one I had just returned. Given that I was now carrying a few pounds of meat, I thought about capturing it, but decided against. In the first place, it was on private land. In the second, I thought that pushing the trolley, what with one thing and another, would be harder work than carrying the bag. Actually a Shan shoulder bag, rather good for water and light shopping in the presently hot weather. A rather less elaborate version of that snapped above from eBay.
PS: following the report on reference 5 at reference 4, I can now report that BH has given some quality time to this book. She tells of echoes from other books that she has read from roughly the same time - but the important thing is that she has read this one, so it can't be all bad. Another good result for RPPL. Evidence too that our reading habits are now converging a little, having been more or less quite separate.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/trolleys-832-833-and-834.html.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Hurac%C3%A1n.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-job.html.
Reference 5: The job - Sinclair Lewis - 1917.
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