title	Thorpe Abbots with Mick the Brick, and the GSB at Pulham - 13th September 2025
intro	Mick the Brick is off to the 100th Bomb Group Museum at Thorpe Abbots and offers to give Nosher a lift, so we spend a couple of hours poking around before a drink and an Eccles cake in the café. It's quite surprising how busy it is given that it's a Wednesday morning, as there's at least one pre-booked tour group and the control tower is almost standing-room only for a bit. The following weekend, the Gislingham Silver Band is once again playing at the Pulham Market carnival, where it's a bit windy but generally nice, but we finish with only minutes before it starts raining. As we're playing, Isobel borrows the camera and gets a few photos.
imgp4275	There's a nice model of the base in a glass box
imgp4277	Mick the Brick looks at stuff
imgp4280	We chat to one of the volunteers
imgp4281	The last remaining bit of the perimeter track
imgp4284	We're on the roof of the control tower
imgp4285	Mick in the control tower
imgp4287	A big TA on the roof of the control tower
imgp4288	It's surprisingly busy at the museum
imgp4289	Some dude's got all the gear on
imgp4291	A stained-glass 8th Airforce insignia
imgp4292	Thorpe Abbots' original control tower
imgp4294	A grand house in Dickleburgh
imgp4296	The GSB gets ready to play
imgp4298	The Gislingham Silver Band in a marquee
imgp4302	Terry on bass drum
imgp4308	An unprecedented six cornets in action
imgp4316	Prizes are announced for the floats
imgp4317	Fancy dress in the crowds
imgp4320	Archie's doing the Treasure Island game again
imgp4321	There's more prize-giving
imgp4329	The scene on Pulham Market Green
imgp4330	A Christmas-themed float is a bit out of season
imgp4331	Sam keeps an eye on the gazebo
imgp4334	A nice old lorry from Saxlingham Thorpe
imgp4337	Someone's got an owl out
imgp4338	The band after the gig
imgp4342	Clouds gather over Pulham
imgp4343	Isobel roams around