Sewell's Cottages, near Aylsham - 1988

Deciding to leave Norwich and get a "place in the sticks", Nosher, Martin Davies and Richard "Dicky Red" Redgrave rent a place out at Red House, a small hamlet near Aylsham in Norfolk. It was nice and rural, but Nosher didn't even have a car, so there would be many 12-mile trips to work by bike - either that or a lift with Richard in his Renault 5 GT (there always seemd to be Prefab Sprout's "The King of Rock and Roll" on the radio).

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Sewell's Cottage, in Redhouse (near Aylsham in the depths of Norfolk) was a lovely location in a small hamlet surrounded by fields. This is a rainbow over the field near the end of the drive

More rainbows

Whilst living out in the sticks, we ended up adopting a wild rabbit, which I named Gus in honour of the once-great Television Wouth West character of the same name

Gus became so tame that we could even stroke him: Martin has a go

Emma strokes Gus, the wild rabbit

Martin and Nosher on a trip to the beach near Cromer and Sherigham

Martin digs some of the beach out of his trainers

Martin, who was a big footie fan, wheels the telly outside so he can watch the 1988 F.A. Cup in the Sun. Nosher, meanwhile, gets his duvet out to catch some rays instead

Martin in the garden

The back of 2 Sewell's Cottage

Richard and his girlfriend, plus his Renault 5

Nosher was fond of telling the world how he held the Plymouth and South-West Devon Condom Inflation record. He he is trying to prove it...

When Sean and Maria came to visit, Sean's automatic Ford Escort died and had to be towed away

Another day, another station

Emma's sister's new kitten climbs up the hard way

We had a spare room in which Martin's drum kit was left set up. I had an old B&O stereo which I also set up, and when everyone was out of the house I'd play drums along to live Genesis.