Lesley's Loot

Commonly found in the street; this baby fish bottle containing soy sauce originally part of the contents of a takeaway sushi meal which can be bought from super markets.

Basic charity pin on badge to help with the war effort in Ukraine. The badge is based the their national flag. Quick to make and quick to loose.

This backpack was found on school gates. Having looked online there is a lot of merchandise surrounding this modern version of Spiderman. It’s of good quality obviously belongs to a child containing a variety of plastic toys. Can’t make out if they’re girls or boys toys however gender specification is becoming narrow these days. The pander is a Play Mobil toy and the only one worth keeping so I replaced it with the Harry Potter figurine found the previous year just in case the child feels hard done by however the panders are easily bought online at a reasonable price. Once recorded I popped it back to the school gates where it remained for several days until it vanished.

Trolley tokens or pound coins are needed to allow costumers to use supermarket trolleys for their groceries, this prevents them from being wheeled off and used for purposes other than what they were originally intended. For example where supermarkets don’t use this facility shopping trolley’s have been known to stray further afield being dredged up from river beds, helping towards polluting the environment. Some places now have trolleys that become locked if they venture any further than store car parks. As mentioned earlier £1 coins usually fit but trolley tokens are often preferred in case you don’t have a pound coin to spare or prefer cashless payments. There have been occasions where people have forgotten to take out their tokens or coins; this one was found beside a cash machine in town. It’s still available to purchase online and is called a Trolley Buddy . Others can be bought from various charities to help support them, costing as little as £1.50.

Christmas tree hanging ornament found on school gates. I left it stuck there for some days but no one thought to rescue it so he hung on our tree instead.   

This school find was meant to be found; this is the second I’ve come across and in the same place too! The first was a white knitted angel; an organised distribution from one of the local churches to celebrate Christmas. What a nice festive gestures!

A rude note found not far from city station. Not sure if it means they’re now broke or the recipient is. They seem angry as the lettering’ s in capital letters too.   

It's very rare to come across plastic smarty tops these days as now smarties don’t seal their tubes with plastic any more. I have found numerous tops over the years. The reason why I sound this one is because some garden maintenance had taken places and revealed the top. Years ago I came across a rare blue Rowntree Mackintosh version before nestle bought them out in the 1080’s. Just in the same way it had been unearthed through builders erecting a new building within the grounds of a college in the early 2000’s.

This lolly was found outside the cities theatre. As it’s pantomime time this was possibly one of the many sweet thrown out towards the audience but strangely rejected or even dropped accidentality once leaving the place.

This was found in Tesco store; it belongs to a game perhaps, if you look carefully you can see the letters KP inscribed. Could represent a real old coin perhaps. After digging around a bit online I soon discover it’s a Henry VI half groat replica coin. Apparently worth 4 pence. This is a cleaned up version and costs £2.49. For more information: https://www.warstore.co.uk/henry-vi-6th-half-groat-replica-coin-3546-p.asp