The bunting's out on Mere Street
The Diss Carnival 2019, Diss, Norfolk - 9th June 2019
Isobel's away in Ljubljana, so Nosher and the boys header over to Diss to see the carnival. It's the first time in a few years, and since last time there's been more of an effort to get things together on Diss Park, where there's a load of stuff going on. There's also some fortuitous luck with the weather, as the day before is all rain and the "Spanish Wind", whilst the day after is back to rain. However, the Sunday turns out to be the perfect day, and the crowds are out in force along with the sun. Also luckily just as soon as the boys are getting bored, what with having to wait more than 30 seconds for something to happen, Megan and the girls wander past, so at least they've got someone else to mess around with for a bit. After the carnival, we head over to Eye to catch a bit of the open gardens, fetching the G-Unit on the way. However, we don't really get to see that much as Grandad's legs are at him again, so he can't really walk anywhere.
next album: A High-Pressure Watermain and some Graffiti, Eye and London - 11th June 2019
previous album: The BSCC at Gissing, Taxi Protests and Eye Scarecrows - 8th June 2019
A view up Mere Street
People mill around by the town sign
The Market Place in Diss
Boots and Holland & Barrett
The boys spend their pocket money in Poundland
The Narket Place starts to fill up
Little dog, big dog
Fred and Harry
Looking back up Mere Street
The crowds start to build up
Spammy wanders past
The carnival procession arrives
The town mascot - a duck called Dinsdale
Funky shades
Vibe City Street Brass band march past
An army cadet with a collecting bucket
Even the olds get wheeled out
An inflatable dinosaur and a green Lambourghini
A couple of cave-people in stilts
More cave-people posing
Isobel's choir go by
Invidia Voices stop for a photo
The dude on his flowery bicycle
A quite-convincing dinosaur works the crowds
Blue dinosaur on Mere Street
White Van dinosaur
A John Deere tractor from Flax Farm trundles past
Some children have made their own dinosaur costumes
Harry and Fred hang around
The Jungle Body dance/fitness group
There's a golden streamer explosion
There's a gorilla on the loose
A vintage David Brown tractor
A fake beard looks almost real
Another David Brown tractor
The Girl Guides wave at people
A view from outside Boots
There's a foam explosion
The foam float moves along towards Mere Street
The Blood Transfusion team on Mere Street
Plenty of leopard-skin costumes
A funky rainbow-covered funeral car drives past
Some majorettes do their thing
Harry gets a free-sweet hand-out
A fireengine makes a lot of noise as it drives by
The mayor of Diss, Councillor Sonia Browne
A large crowd follows the procession to the park
The girls trail golden ribbon around town
We feed the children a quality tea of chips
Megan's on the phone
Fred, Alice and Harry outside the post office
The market place and Market Hill are quiet again
Dipple and Conway have got into the spirit
A view of the park
We check out the Mere
Anna, Fred and Grace in the park
A giant Fred Flintstone floats around
Dinsdale works the crowds
Andy Sausage serves a rozzer
Pat 83's decorated quad bike is parked up
Quad bike and the Mere
There's some sort of Army Cadet presentation
A bunch of purple ladies
A doughnut shop, at £1.50 a pop, does a good trade
Alice is all hair as she hurtles down the slide
Fred boings into the air
Harry comes out of some sort of hall of mirrors
Fire engine kit
The gang do some sort of Disney-themed haunted house
Fred's in a bungee
Fred rides a small triceratops
Fred desperately tries to cling on to a rodeo bull
The dino-eats-lawyer scene from Jurassic Park
The polizei keep an eye on things
A fire engine is opened up
A small child tries on a rozzer's hat
The vintage tractors are parked up
Someone's had a garage fire on Elizabeth Way in Eye
The G-Unit roams around Chandos House in Eye
Fred in a WWII gun emplacement in Chandos House
A nice cottage on Victoria Hill
Fred roams around in a small stumpery
Some sort of (fake?) mediaeval wall in Chandos House
Fred and Harry
Harry's got some candy floss
Chandos House and garden
Stone lettering on an old school
A lovely old roadster on Lambseth Street
A vintage bus stops by the equally-vintage Eye bus stop
There's a cool old Mustang parked up on Church Street
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The bunting's out on Mere Street
The bunting's out on Mere Street
A view up Mere Street
People mill around by the town sign
The Market Place in Diss
Boots and Holland & Barrett
The boys spend their pocket money in Poundland
The Narket Place starts to fill up
Little dog, big dog
Fred and Harry
Looking back up Mere Street
The crowds start to build up
Spammy wanders past
The carnival procession arrives
The town mascot - a duck called Dinsdale
Funky shades
Vibe City Street Brass band march past
An army cadet with a collecting bucket
Even the olds get wheeled out
An inflatable dinosaur and a green Lambourghini
A couple of cave-people in stilts
More cave-people posing
Isobel's choir go by
Invidia Voices stop for a photo
The dude on his flowery bicycle
A quite-convincing dinosaur works the crowds
Blue dinosaur on Mere Street
White Van dinosaur
A John Deere tractor from Flax Farm trundles past
Some children have made their own dinosaur costumes
Harry and Fred hang around
The Jungle Body dance/fitness group
There's a golden streamer explosion
There's a gorilla on the loose
A vintage David Brown tractor
A fake beard looks almost real
Another David Brown tractor
The Girl Guides wave at people
A view from outside Boots
There's a foam explosion
The foam float moves along towards Mere Street
The Blood Transfusion team on Mere Street
Plenty of leopard-skin costumes
A funky rainbow-covered funeral car drives past
Some majorettes do their thing
Harry gets a free-sweet hand-out
A fireengine makes a lot of noise as it drives by
The mayor of Diss, Councillor Sonia Browne
A large crowd follows the procession to the park
The girls trail golden ribbon around town
We feed the children a quality tea of chips
Megan's on the phone
Fred, Alice and Harry outside the post office
The market place and Market Hill are quiet again
Dipple and Conway have got into the spirit
A view of the park
We check out the Mere
Anna, Fred and Grace in the park
A giant Fred Flintstone floats around
Dinsdale works the crowds
Andy Sausage serves a rozzer
Pat 83's decorated quad bike is parked up
Quad bike and the Mere
There's some sort of Army Cadet presentation
A bunch of purple ladies
A doughnut shop, at £1.50 a pop, does a good trade
Alice is all hair as she hurtles down the slide
Fred boings into the air
Harry comes out of some sort of hall of mirrors
Fire engine kit
The gang do some sort of Disney-themed haunted house
Fred's in a bungee
Fred rides a small triceratops
Fred desperately tries to cling on to a rodeo bull
The dino-eats-lawyer scene from Jurassic Park
The polizei keep an eye on things
A fire engine is opened up
A small child tries on a rozzer's hat
The vintage tractors are parked up
Someone's had a garage fire on Elizabeth Way in Eye
The G-Unit roams around Chandos House in Eye
Fred in a WWII gun emplacement in Chandos House
A nice cottage on Victoria Hill
Fred roams around in a small stumpery
Some sort of (fake?) mediaeval wall in Chandos House
Fred and Harry
Harry's got some candy floss
Chandos House and garden
Stone lettering on an old school
A lovely old roadster on Lambseth Street
A vintage bus stops by the equally-vintage Eye bus stop
There's a cool old Mustang parked up on Church Street