Was this brolly abandonned...

... or just left there to collect when the owner came out of the shop?

We will never know, because I wasn't hanging about in the filthy weather to find out.

Sorry my blip is in a similar theme to yesterday's, but the weather hasn't changed for the better.

For a quick follow-up to the blip photo, taken 24 hours later - see the extra. It looks like someone decided not to take the brolly away, probably because it is clearly broken.