Today's thing found on the street is...
Two tins of baked beans! I found these on a wall, in a plastic bag. Which brand are they? Actually they seem to be no brand at all - on the other side, where you'd expect to find a brand name is an advert for a local computer shop. Isn't sponsorship wonderful?
A few metres away from where I took the beans out to photograph them, there was a man falling over...and just lying there, groaning. He had a scraggly beard, a tattered coat, and a can of beer - yes, one of the homeless people our government says don't exist. A 'gentleman of the street' as my grandmother used to say.
After a few attempts, I helped him stand up - for which he was effusively grateful for a good five minutes. Maybe he was looking for a way to tap me for some money, or perhaps he really was just as astonished as he seemed that anyone would help him. We exchanged names - I lied and I think so did he - before he went back to sitting outside the church with his beer, and I went home with half the recipe for beans on toast.
Now I just need to walk along the street till I find a tin opener.
I fully expect to find tins of beans on every street corner when I visit England.
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