A car negotiates Lake Milton
Wet Weekend: Cambridge Floods, Curry Night and Ipswich Monsoon - 10th September 2005
There hadn't been that much in the way of rain for a while, so an afternoon of torrential rain soon floods the junction of Milton Road and the Science Park in Cambridge. Later, I drove to Ipswich to meet up with old Suffolk County Council mates Andrew and Russell, initially at the Grinning Rat pub (or the "Rinning Grat") for a couple of beers - where there's almost a Continental vibe in the air - and then on to Dakha Diner on Tacket Street in Ipswich for some reliably good nosh. The following day, after crashing over at Andrew's, it's in to Ipswich to grab a few more photos of Urban Decay (including some of the shop that gave me food poisoning from a Saltfish bagel in 1997) and then a few pics of people caught out in what seems to becoming almost a UK monsoon season.
next album: Derelict Cottage in Wortham, and a Wizard Balloon Goes Up - 12th September 2005
previous album: Dead Transport Artefacts: Abandoned Petrol Station and Little Chef, Kentford - 8th September 2005
Not sure if the addition of a lake was quite the sort of improvement Balfour Beatty had in mind
The beer garden of the Grinning Rat in Ipswich
Russell points out one of two plant-pots, both of which were rescued from nearby St Edmunds House (where we used to work for SCC) after the building was sold to Suffolk College
In the Dakha Diner, pre-ambling on Bombay mix
Good food-o-rama
The tables of the restaurant are strangely empty for a Friday night
Saturday morning: Andrew mills about
Feed the fish!
Andrew points to one of his prized marrows, growing in a strange and unusual shape crammed up the side of the garage
Milo-mog
Milo peers out from his favourite hiding place
The remains of the Ipswich Bagel Bakery
On the opposite side of Upper Orwell Street, the closed-down 'Fruits of the Earth'
Another sad, failed, shop
A bunch of Rude Boys hang outside the closed-down Ice Bar (which used to be Opium, which used to be Global Net Café...)
Ipswich monsoon season strikes
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A car negotiates Lake Milton