Trolleys 965 and 966

A medium small trolley from the M&S food hall captured outside Epsom Station on return from town.

Returned to capture a medium small chained to a small, across the road from the station. With, in this snap, the bars in front of the handle nicely capturing the sinking sun. Which, no doubt, I would have found difficult to do on purpose.

It remains a puzzle where these small trolleys come from. They don't appear to be part of the regular offering at our M&S, but who would bother to move one from somewhere else?

Do the M&S shops in petrol stations bother with trolleys at all? The orange spotted one at Epsom Hospital is long gone and the nearest real shop is the one in Ashtead, before you get to the (private) hospital there. A fair way to walk, not handy to Ashtead railway station and not practical at all for a bus. Would a bus take one? Perhaps a driver with a sense of humour on a quiet run?

With the next puzzle being, who is responsible for keeping these markers up to date on gmaps? Do M&S pay a rent for each marker and Google keeps them up as long as the rent keeps coming in? Which would imply careless maintenance on the part of M&S.

I then inspected the chicken in M&S with a view to boiling up a chunk for stock, for gravy for the following day. They had chunks, but not chunks which took my fancy, so I removed to the nearby Waitrose to see whey could do, settling for two legs from there. That is to say, two chicken quarters rather than drumsticks, one of which would do for the freezer against a rainy day.

Thought about, but decided against, taking beverage on the Wetherpoon's terrace. I needed to get home to attend to the stock.

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