Marc gets an extra-hot bit of chilli sauce
Dom in da Chapel, Safeway Chickens and Evil Supermarkets, Harleston and Grimston - 15th January 2006
It's almost the 12th day of Christmas, so Nosher heads over to Bacton in Suffolk - normally on the way to work - to see again some "Bacton Bling": an excess of Christmas lights festooning many of the houses in the village. However, by the time of arrival there aren't as many left - partly because some had actually been stolen - but the snow on the ground adds a picturesque touch. Before that, there's a Friday-night trip to Harleston to try out a few of its pubs for a change, followed by the obligatory stop in a kebab shop for Marc and Phil; then there a few chicken photos from the car-park of Morisson's in Diss, and then there's a trip to see old 3G Lab chum Dominic and catch up with the progress of his ongoing renovation of a chapel in the sticks, between Swaffham and Kings Lynn in the depths of North Norfolk. In the middle of all of that is a debate about the impact of Supermarkets and their role as hero or villain. It's being held at the Diss Community Christian Church (DC3) on Vinces Road in Diss, and was supposed to have included a representative from an actual supermarket. However, to no-one's surprise, the rep bails out. However, there is a rare appearance from an actual local MP - Richard Bacon.
next album: Cambridge Bins and Little Chef Dereliction, Kentford, Suffolk - 21st January 2006
previous album: A Portrait of Hopgoods: Gentlemen's Outfitters, Diss, Norfolk - 4th January 2006
The Boy Phil peers from out of the kebab shop
Phil and Marc on elephant-leg kebabs
Bill and Suey wander off
Marc walks past the Cardinal's Hat pub
Bill rauches one off
Marc gets some chilli sauce again
Suey and Marc share a hug moment with a football
Suey hides again
The Bill-mobile
The lights of the Mendlesham Twig, near Bacton
Lambert's Service Station in Bacton
Lambert's Service Station over the village pond
A bit of 'Bacton Bling'
Builders start to rebuild the recycling centre
The national grid pylons stride over Thrandeston
Sunset electric pylons
Seized-up brakes gets fixed in Lamberts at Bacton
Life in a car wash
Local MP Richard Bacon on the mic
Notes are taken
A 'Produced in Norfolk' consortium representative
Keith, from Castle's the greengrocer in Diss
Some Gaian ideas for food cooperatives are discussed
A Diss Christian Church dude talks about community
The whole panel
The respectably-large crowd breaks up
A chicken roams around Morisson's car park
Why did the chicken cross the road?
A cockerel pokes about near the trolleys
'Bindery Sue' is spotted outside Morrison's
Millions of trolleys
More trolleys, a pound a go
An epic ancient petrol pump in Grimston, Norfolk
A petrol pump still in gallons
The old Shell petrol pump
Dom's living space in the Chapel
Dominic walks up the open staircase
Dom sweeps off dust from some nice oak timbers
We'd moved nearly one tonne of timbers
The front of the chapel
Door archway, showing 'Wesley Chapel, 1873'
Dominic's workshop, with an old motorbike
Dom's collection of old school gym ropes
Dom's workshop from the top of the stairs
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Marc gets an extra-hot bit of chilli sauce
Marc gets an extra-hot bit of chilli sauce
The Boy Phil peers from out of the kebab shop
Phil and Marc on elephant-leg kebabs
Bill and Suey wander off
Marc walks past the Cardinal's Hat pub
Bill rauches one off
Marc gets some chilli sauce again
Suey and Marc share a hug moment with a football
Suey hides again
The Bill-mobile
The lights of the Mendlesham Twig, near Bacton
Lambert's Service Station in Bacton
Lambert's Service Station over the village pond
A bit of 'Bacton Bling'
Builders start to rebuild the recycling centre
The national grid pylons stride over Thrandeston
Sunset electric pylons
Seized-up brakes gets fixed in Lamberts at Bacton
Life in a car wash
Local MP Richard Bacon on the mic
Notes are taken
A 'Produced in Norfolk' consortium representative
Keith, from Castle's the greengrocer in Diss
Some Gaian ideas for food cooperatives are discussed
A Diss Christian Church dude talks about community
The whole panel
The respectably-large crowd breaks up
A chicken roams around Morisson's car park
Why did the chicken cross the road?
A cockerel pokes about near the trolleys
'Bindery Sue' is spotted outside Morrison's
Millions of trolleys
More trolleys, a pound a go
An epic ancient petrol pump in Grimston, Norfolk
A petrol pump still in gallons
The old Shell petrol pump
Dom's living space in the Chapel
Dominic walks up the open staircase
Dom sweeps off dust from some nice oak timbers
We'd moved nearly one tonne of timbers
The front of the chapel
Door archway, showing 'Wesley Chapel, 1873'
Dominic's workshop, with an old motorbike
Dom's collection of old school gym ropes
Dom's workshop from the top of the stairs