h♥me sweet h♥me

Channel 4 are streaming series 7 of Seaside Hotel (the Danish Downton), it's 1940 and the Nazis have arrived and its remarkably like having Trump as president.

The Art Station in Saxmundham has a silent auction running for a calendar month and ending 7pm tonight.

Last posting second class for Christmas is TODAY.

Four shed/outbuilding burglaries last weekend High Street, Strickland Manor Hill and Hog Hill Lane Yoxford, and Low Street Badingham.  Stolen were two bikes (though one has been recovered), a radio/cd player, tools and an outboard motor.  Any info call police on 101.

Wes Anderson and a train in today's nearthecoast Advent playlist.

♫ More Framlingham choral goodness when the Fram Ladies Choir sing 12 noon Friday in St Clare's.  Free entry and post concert refreshments.

The year moves on, next Sunday is the shortest day.

Crikey!  We haven't seen the splendid disorder that is the Rendham Mummers since before Covid.  For the solstice next Sunday it's Smugglers Ahoy! on the Knoll.  Just park on the playing fields and you'll find it plus an after party in the village hall.

♫ Fine choral concert last night from the Phoenix Singers in Framlingham.  Woman in the audience who might have been the MP for Suffolk Coastal but difficult to tell as Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has decapitated herself on that there Facepack.

Framlingham in the snow for halfway through our Advent playlist .

Last night's Mini Mouth dress rehearsal of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looked brilliant and had some very clever effects.  Three shows this weekend starting tonight.

Suffolk Overheard: (in a Woodbridge tea shop) It can't be Assam c'os you can't get Assam in teabags.

♫ The programme's up for next year's Aldeburgh Festival.

We l♥ve Nerine Skinner's satires, today she's on quad skates.

artEast have pointed out that Howard J Morgan exhibited with them but sadly passed away before the actual show.  His very desirable work is still available framed and signed.

We know about walking football but Saturday mornings at the Debenham Leisure Centre they have walking netball ... netball bibs pressed into different service today.

Only a bit surprising that both Al Murray and Austentatious SOLD OUT for early next month at the Norwich Theatre.

The village doesn't support you?  Promote yourself on nearthecoast.

The semi-retired Sweffling printroom (they're having a SALE the weekend 21-22 February) are planning the new web site Culture Edit Suffolk to focus on the small-scale arts scene in Suffolk.  You can help by taking their survey, it only took us two minutes.

We now live on Instagram at nearbythecoast so we'll be deleting alsoconsidered tomorrow.

It's day four on our Advent playlist ...

The Pascale Ferran Lady Chatterley is very French, long and involving.  It worried our anorak brain that twice at the spring a metal cup just appears whilst on a third occasion Lady C drinks from her hands ... it's the cross we bear.

Anorak Alert No.73: Streamed Darkest Hour last night and enjoyed it but when the cabinet was discussing that unlike WWI the German tanks would be able to refuel at petrol stations surely in the 1940s that would have been American usage ... like calling a lorry a truck?

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