Fleet Services is actually adjacent to the suburbs of Fleet itself, it's just not very convenient to move from one to the other. There is a huge wooden wall between the two that I suppose can be justified on noise reduction grounds but I can't see any good reason for preventing people walking between the two. Luckily there is a service road, liberally adorned with hostile notices warning of prosecution for trespass if one were to use it. It doesn't penetrate the wall of course but at least it does allow one to reach the main local road without travelling along the motorway. So I walked about 1 300 m along that until I came to quite a pleasant footpath through a wooded strip beside the road that headed to the centre of Fleet.
The service road is actually quite a pleasant walk
On the footpath through the wooded strip between the housing estate and the road there are lots of trees and bushes.
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Once I reached the centre I started trawling the charity shops for books and anything else that looked like I couldn't live without.
Saw a miniskirt that I quite liked in BHF but it was five quid. I can live without it.
Fleet looks like a very new town and the centre is just one long straight road so eventually I ran out of charity shops, cafés, and pubs. So turned back.
What's the going rate for a second hand copy of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club? One charity shop wanted two pounds for the paper back but I got it and a hardback of the Last Devil to Die for one fifty altogether at DEBRA.
