The good news is that the rather ugly bit of public sculpture, depicting race horse and rider, has been moved behind the shed. In its place we now have a big white pole.
Then a great deal of money is being spent on erecting a steel framework, a sort of open plan arcade, around the main entrance, involving screens (to screen the backs of some of the buildings lining the square) and planters, a bit like large window boxes. In the course of which it was necessary to chop down one of the trees that was already there. Behind where I was standing to take this snap - which includes a record of a nowadays rare outing of my trusty Trek bicycle. Get onto more Bullingdons, in London, these days.
And someone on the project is clearly very keen to bring more street food to Epsom and three semi-permanent sheds are being erected to dish the stuff out. The one in this snap has been built into the side of the centre itself, while the other two are free-standing and more shed like. Perhaps in the summer there will be lots of chairs and tables and we will be able to play balmy evenings in a warm climate. Always amusing to see how these municipal fashions sweep through the land. Last year it was German themed Christmas markets and portable ice rinks.
PS: I was there to see if the library could do me a copy of 'Bertram's Hotel', with my suspecting massive deviations from the word on the TV. Searched under 'C' to be told by the lady there that Christie counts as thrillers rather than as fiction and that when she was tidying them earlier in the day, there had been no Bertram's Hotel. She led me off to look, and there was a reasonable selection, but she was quite right. Daunts had not had one the other day either. Third time lucky.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/debutante.html.
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