Sherlock Holmes ….. a bit of recycling …… and a clue

Now I like a mystery as much as any devout fan of Sherlock Holmes, even more so when it comes in the form of a pile of discarded rubbish with a nod to recycling and a clue.

So, there I was on High Lane, drawn to a set of plastic bags left on a wall.

Clearly the person who left the rubbish had a keen sense of humour, given that one bag carried that message to “Reduce Refuse Recycle” which they had chosen to do by leaving a selection of their household usage for someone else to sift through.

Added to which they had cunningly left a clue in the form of some letter headed mail.

I await someone far clever than me to make sense of the piece of paper and perhaps deduce who had left the clue.

And draw conclusions about the dietary habits from the assorted water bottles, soft drink tins and the intriguing Bacofoile bag.

It may even kick start a discussion on the effort that must have gone on to transport the collection of rubbish bags, choose a location and then find a time when no one was around.

And to think that Billy Bin Day is on a Wednesday.

And yes historically Chorlton has always had litter louts which can be a attested by the amount of thrown away paper evident in pictures from our streets and parks at the beginning of the last century.

Of course Mrs Trellis of St Clements Road will object claiming this is a trivial post when weighed against what is going on in the Ukraine, and it is. 

Location; Chorlton

Picture; the recycling lout, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson