The bits and bobs illustrated were picked up from the gutter along a two hundred yard stretch of Chessington Road in West Ewell. The task is to construct a story about how they got there. A semi-literary version of the sort of thing that Maigret does with the facts available to him. Or a scientist for that matter.
The best that I could do, and it is not very good, was that a jobbing builder had stuffed a whole lot of such stuff into a plastic bag, which he put in the back of his small lorry. Taking a roundabout too fast, the bag burst and the contents scattered along the floor of the back of the lorry. Tailgate damaged, leaving a small, nearside hole. Through which the bits and bobs slowly leaked into the gutter of Chessington Road.
The usual small prize is offered for more imagination, more creation.
Reference 1: http://www.uca.ac.uk/.
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