My local tip is a nightmare. Usually has long car queues to get into it. A member of staff told me another tip in a different town (South Kirkby/SouthElmsall) in the district never has queues. I wasn't planning to go all that way just to offload some polystyrene and cardboard. But I've been planning to have little drives around the area so I thought why not check it out as part of a drive around. It involved going to a town I did a job in decades ago. I remembered it as a small, somewhat rundown town back then but I also remembered it as having a really nice, compact, thriving little market with stalls in brick alcoves which were quite quaint in a gritty, northern kind of way. My dad bought some nice, cheap tools from a second-hand tool seller one workday lunchtime.
Sadly, that town is mostly still rundown…though not without some bustle. It's just a bit rough-looking. It's inhabitants are rough-looking too, like no one has any money to smarten themselves up. The once lively market now has about eighty percent of its stalls unoccupied. Sad and pathetic. I didn't like the look of any of the cafes so didn't stop for lunch. The tip was much nicer than my local one though. On the way home I stopped at my favourite roadside cafe for a 'Small Breakfast' (bacon x2, egg, sausage, fried bread, tinned tomatoes: £5.75).
