A June Miscellany: The End of Days, and Al Leaves Taptu, Diss and Cambridge - 13th June 2009

Nosher, with Fred installed as a kind of baby rucksack, is wandering about Diss and happens upon a bunch of knitters outside the old Woolworth's. It turns out that they're promoting "Transition Diss" - part of a growing movement which appears to bring together bits of ethical/climate-changey/sustainability philosophy with a healthy dose of post-industrial/post-apocalyptic "what happens after the collapse of society" fatalism - one of Nosher's favourite things and why there's always a good selection of tinned food and dried pasta in the house, and stuff growing in the garden. They've even done a bit of a Mill Road, Cambridge campaign with postit-notes of suggestion for what Woolies should be instead of the planned carpet shop. Later, there's another bike ride with The Boy, and Al Brayne at Taptu leaves to become a blacksmith/hippie and travel the world.

next album: Diss Carnival Procession, Diss, Norfolk - 21st June 2009
previous album: The Debach Airfield 1940s Dance, Debach, Suffolk - 6th June 2009

On Mere Street, outside Woolworth's

A knit-a-thon occurs on Mere Street

The old Woolies is now a Carpet Right

Knitters outside Woolies

Postit Notes of hope

A 'Come and Knit!' sign

The knit coordinator chats to the public

Light through a venitian blind strikes a spiky plant

Fred the Head flashes his baby blues

Fred chews on a toy

Smiling Fred

Isobel's got Fred on her bike

Isobel with The Boy cycles up Brome Avenue

Isobel points out some chickens to Fred

Fred and Isobel stop to look at chickens, near Eye

Walking up the steep hill to the Eye Cricket Club

A derelict shed near Abbey Bridge

In the Taptu office, Jake inspects a pile of pizza

Marc sneaks in to grab a slice

Al checks out his leaving gifts

Al has a drink

The view from Nosher's desk

Hint: you can use the left and right cursor keys to navigate between albums, and between photos when in the photo viewer