title	Post-modern Alienation: Bleak House, a Diss Miscellany, Norfolk - 3rd December 2005
intro	Whilst recent photos seem to emphasise the destruction of parts of Diss, there is also some construction to make up for it. The problem is that whilst the odd new building here and there tends to blend in unnoticed to existing infrastructure in something of an organic way, slapping up entire estates in one go is doomed to create a soul-less wasteland of bleak, identikit boxes. And so it is around Mission Road on the outskirts of Diss, where Yet Another Housing Estate is seemingly prefabricated from concepts straight out of "The Big Book of House Design 101" and dumped whole onto a muddy field. It really sums up - especially on a cold, cloudy day - how much of modern life is rubbish. But, before all that, there are a few photos of Nosher's old work's building - the former BPCC Printec (Development Workshop/Anglia Web/Polestar) - once part of Robert Maxwell's printing empire and now abandoned when production moved down the road to Severall's Lane in Colchester.
imgp4846	Autumn leaves in Diss Park
imgp4849b	A winter tree
imgp4851	Autumn leaves on the ground in the park
imgp4852	Some geese roam around looking for trouble
imgp4853	A view from Denmark Street
imgp4854	The austere Baptist Chapel on Denmark Hill
imgp4855	Nosher bumps into Penny of Suffolk County Council
imgp4857	Some mystery mini-catacombs on Shelfanger Road
imgp5098	Cat "B" - The Sock - lurks on the stairs
imgp5099	Nosher's former office was the middle window
imgp5101	A flag hangs ouside the former Printec offices
imgp5104	Nosher's old office on Vince's Road
imgp5105	Looking down Vinces Road
imgp5106	The door to the old heatset-printing shed
imgp5107	The former coldset printing shed is straight ahead
imgp5108	An empty office to let
imgp5111	Discarded service duct on the edge of Mission Road
imgp5115	A new roundabout is built
imgp5117	The remains of Mission Road
imgp5119	A portaloo in the middle of a muddy field
imgp5121	The drain seems a little proud of the ground
imgp5123	Little boxes, made out of tiffy-taffy
imgp5124	A show house on the new road
imgp5126	Signs of life as a builder walks past
imgp5129	A brick wall under construction
imgp5131	Another brick in the wall
imgp5134	The Portaloo again
imgp5135	Tyre tracks, and half-finished garages
imgp5136	A coned-off bit of Mission Road
imgp5137	The road to nowhere
imgp5140	Discarded Sawmills Road sign
imgp5143	A new traffic island
imgp5144	More pipe is lying around
imgp5145	The New Buckenham Silver Band plays at Somerfield
imgp5146	Twiglet Carl plays cornet by Somerfield
imgp5149	The band plays "In the Bleak Midwinter"
imgp5151	A shop on Mere Street gets some work done
imgp5153	Christmas decoration in Larter and Ford
imgp5154	The Browne's boys: Dan, Roger and Richard
imgp5155	Dan Dan the Meat Man, of Browne's Butchers in Diss
imgp5156	Richard's in the till
imgp5157	Roger Browne checks some notes
imgp5158	Roger and Richard
imgp5159	Richard chops something up
imgp5160	Christmas tinsel outside "This 'n' That"
imgp5163	The Salvation Army band plays
imgp5164	The Sally Army band outside NatWest
imgp5166	Down by Mere's Mouth
imgp5169	There's a bird explosion over the Oaksmere
imgp5183	Sophie in a tree, in the late-afternoon light
imgp5184	Soph-bags has a yowl
imgp5186	The Sock stands on a bird bath and does a tail swish