The big ash tree behind the garage
Life Before Lockdown: A March Miscellany - 22nd March 2020
The massive Ash tree behind the garage/office has signs of die-back disease and fungus eating out one of its limbs, plus if it ever fell over it would do some major damage, and so it sadly has to come down. At the same time, the whole hedge along the field is sorted out. Then, Nosher's in Morissons in Diss to see the first signs of Novel Coronavirus-related panic buying, where it's true that for no apparent reason whatsoever people really have bought all the bog roll. After that, we're in Madgett's of Diss to get a new bike for Harry, and also manage to sneak in a final haircut before everything closes down. On the Sunday - the day before the full lock-down is announced - we go out for a bike ride with Harry's new bike, which is easy enough to do in a social-distancing style as there aren't many people around on Brome Avenue, even when things were normal.
next album: An April Lockdown Miscellany, Eye, Suffolk - 10th April 2020
previous album: A Trip to Cooke's Music, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich - 14th March 2020
The first limb is cut down
A bit of tree trunk is hauled around
Nick Bobby the tree surgeon is up the last bough
The grabber machine does its thing
The boys explore the new wood pile
The gang run around inspecting the new log pile
The remains of the tree
Meanwhile, Morissons is out of biscuits
It's also, more obviously, out of tinned food
The lack of bog roll is a complete mystery
Morissons café has been cordoned off as well
The boys wait for a hair cut
Fred gets a trim
The boys in Madgett's Cycles
The gang heads upstairs in Madgett's
Fred looks at chunky tyres
Harry gets a fitting
Mick Madgett parks the bike up
Harry has another test for size
Beale's of Bournemouth's Diss branch closes down
Road signs in the old council offices in Eye
The camera takes its own photo inside the car
Fred on a bike cycling through Brome
Isobel and Harry pass the church
The gang heads off through Brome Street
Isobel and Fred wait for Harry
Some late daffodils
Fred cycles up Church Street in Eye
Harry has a drink
We eat a socially-distanced picnic in the grounds
A horse walks up Church Street
Overlapping photos look like computer graphics
More crazy overlapping photos
The overlapping photo result is interesting
The Eye Guildhall
Old bas-relief in the church walls
Harry whirls around
The church looms into the clear blue sky
We head off
An auctioned house near the castle
The 'perching falcons' on Victoria Hill
Isobel and Harry cycle up Victoria Hill
We stop near Grandad's
We leave Grandad's after showing of Harry's bike
A an old WWII bit of Eye airfield
Fred waits on the B1077
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The big ash tree behind the garage
The big ash tree behind the garage
The first limb is cut down
A bit of tree trunk is hauled around
Nick Bobby the tree surgeon is up the last bough
The grabber machine does its thing
The boys explore the new wood pile
The gang run around inspecting the new log pile
The remains of the tree
Meanwhile, Morissons is out of biscuits
It's also, more obviously, out of tinned food
The lack of bog roll is a complete mystery
Morissons café has been cordoned off as well
The boys wait for a hair cut
Fred gets a trim
The boys in Madgett's Cycles
The gang heads upstairs in Madgett's
Fred looks at chunky tyres
Harry gets a fitting
Mick Madgett parks the bike up
Harry has another test for size
Beale's of Bournemouth's Diss branch closes down
Road signs in the old council offices in Eye
The camera takes its own photo inside the car
Fred on a bike cycling through Brome
Isobel and Harry pass the church
The gang heads off through Brome Street
Isobel and Fred wait for Harry
Some late daffodils
Fred cycles up Church Street in Eye
Harry has a drink
We eat a socially-distanced picnic in the grounds
A horse walks up Church Street
Overlapping photos look like computer graphics
More crazy overlapping photos
The overlapping photo result is interesting
The Eye Guildhall
Old bas-relief in the church walls
Harry whirls around
The church looms into the clear blue sky
We head off
An auctioned house near the castle
The 'perching falcons' on Victoria Hill
Isobel and Harry cycle up Victoria Hill
We stop near Grandad's
We leave Grandad's after showing of Harry's bike
A an old WWII bit of Eye airfield
Fred waits on the B1077