Work has started again on the site at the corner as you turn into Station Approach; that is to say work to enclose the scaffold put up around the existing building some weeks ago now. The carpenter doing the work clearly had had trouble going around the corner; in fact, rather a rubbish bit of work. Did the man have no pride? But I am pleased to say that when, an hour or so later, I came back the other way, it was being put to rights.
Trolley 908, a medium small from the M&S food hall, was captured somewhere on the northern side of the stretch of High Street between Waterloo Road and East Street. But, unusually, I cannot this afternoon remember, see or find (in gmaps) exactly where. Just as well that I have the photographic evidence.
Pushing it back to the main entrance to the Ashley Centre, I passed an old lady who had collapsed on the square of pavement outside Metro Bank. She seemed to be stirring and was being attended to by a couple of ladies, so after pausing long enough to take this on, I moved on.
After which trolley 909, captured in East Street, was another of the same kind.
But I am clearly having a bad afternoon, because I can't find where again.
On the upside, I have now run down No.908 to the grey door between HSBC and Waterstones. A case of finding it after I had stopped looking for it. After which it occurred to me that No.909 might have been down Waterloo Road, not down East Street at all - where I now find a telephone box which looks fairly right at the top of the passage leading to the top corner of Court Recreation Ground. Just past Capelli Amalia heading north.
Do not be confused - as I was initially - by the triangle lower left: that is probably just what the fish eye lens has done to the utility box visible in Street View.
Pushing back past the stricken old lady, there was now a young man in attendance who looked like he knew what he was doing, so possibly a medical man of some kind. So that was as alright as it could be.
Picked up some cherries from M&S, after which I pushed back over West Hill, cutting through to Meadway rather than going all the way over.
Home to find a helpful diagram from Dignity in Dying about the passage of their bill through Parliament. I responded to the plea for more money, partly because I dare say donations have dropped off a bit, with lots of people wrongly assuming that it is all done and dusted. Wrong because while it might be looking good, it is not a done deal until good King Charles puts his moniker on it. At least I don't suppose he would have the sauce to withhold, whatever he might think about the matter. His mother didn't even abdicate, never mind anything more drastic. To be fair, I think that was down to her: she thought that God had given her the mantle for life and that she had no business copping out before he gave the nod.
A diagram which reminded me that in order to have sensible laws one does need a sensible process to make them - and that what we have here in the UK is not a bad effort as far as process goes. Some of the details sometimes look a bit silly, but you do need to have a process and to stick to it. One should not confuse the problems which you get when a country which is evenly divided on something important with problems of process.
From where I associate to the ancient Roman practise of appointing term-limited dictators as a response, as I recall, to danger of invasion. A time when suspension of process was the lesser evil. A reason why the study of classics can be relevant to the world of today: that is not to say that one should persist with them, just that there are reasons why one might.
References
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