title A Black and White Life in Concrete, Stuston, Suffolk - 3rd September 1992 intro Nosher's landlords Geoff and Brenda had been toiling for years making concrete garden ornaments for supply to several local garden centres and suchlike. Despite this particularly hard way of life taking up most of their waking hours for around 30 years, they took not one single photograph of it, so the only ones in existence are the few featured here. The business has now been sold following their retirement, and the sheds and ornaments have now all gone. There are also some photos from the greater environs of Diss and Billingford, a trip to Geoff's friend's machine sheds in Palgrave, and a trip to meet Sis at the Old Man's place in Macclesfield. gb01 Aphrodites in the shed gb03 A concrete version of the Teracotta Army gb04 Some lions in the undergrowth gb05 Brenda pauses leaning on a sack barrow gb06 Brenda wheels some ornaments out of the shed scan2020-12-09-0019 A rusting scarifier or something scan2020-12-09-0020 An old watering can looks like it has barnacles gb29 A shed full of machine randomness gb31 A small stationery engine is prepped with a gas bottle gb32 Geoff and his chum talk about machines gb33 An old car and tractor in a shed gb30 More machinery gb34 A proud machine collector sm02 "Mad" Sue mows her lawn sm03 Sue and a lawnmower sm04 A Nosher-painted slate for The Stables - the Stuston pad so15 Nosher's beloved Mark 1 Astra so13 Nosher's Astra by the garage scan2020-12-09-0021 Bernie's keyboard is stacked on the piano sm05 A bee in a flower so16 Brenda in the Wilbye netball team (bottom right) so17 Brenda's school photo, 1950s so19 The Stuston lightning tree, on the S bends so21 The lightning tree, Stuston so33 Billingford windmill and the heath so31 Billingford Windmill so32 Billingford windmill again so29 A fluffy cloud so34 The watermeadows, Billingford bridge so36 Norfolk House Yard, Diss so37 St. Mary's Church, Diss so38 Diss Publishing and Frameworks so35 Winnie the tractor in the garage so39 Geoff pokes around with Winnie so40 Geoff looks up so24 A bit later in the year, it's bonfire night so25 A raging bonfire so23 Bernie finds something amusing so26 Figures in the dark so27 Watching the bonfire scan2020-12-09-0006 Sis in the Old Man's lounge scan2020-12-09-0002 The Old Man has a smoke scan2020-12-09-0003 Sis again scan2020-12-09-0004 The Old Man finds something amusing