Here's Blu-tack having a little something in Debenham when he returned (still wearing his collar) after nine days missing, perhaps one day per life?

The Hoo white terrier bitch is called Tilly and she's back with her owners and at 5:30am this morning after nine days Blu-tack came back through her Debenham cat flap feeling a bit peckish!

Blu-tack has been missing from Debenham for nearly a week.

Thanks to Duncan (thank you Duncan) we can tell and show that Sunday's Debenham street fair was lively stuff, the Suffolk School of Samba were as always cracking and a bit loud, and the band had to set up in the road because the trailer stage hadn't turned up.

Radio Stradbroke's on air this morning and this afternoon it's the Crow's Hall Country Fair near Debenham and an Open Garden in Rendham.

Surely at constituency level you're selling yourself rather than the party and this morning at Debenham High School Central Suffolk Labour candidate Bhavna Joshi (without her red handbag) told the school she's 32, the first person in her family to go to University and her grandmother is illiterate.

Head teacher Mike Crawshaw told us he hears continual election chatter in the corridors with the Lib-Dem's rocket ship impression the hot topic.  He must be gratified by the informed questions asked by the students after Bhavna's pitch.  More pix here

mo 30 no 09

Who would have thought it?  A royal, if secret, wedding in Debenham.

th 19 no 09

Our pic of Special Constable Graham Durrant on duty at a Framlingham gala so appealed to a picture editor as an example of a British volunteer that it was used in an English language tutor for German speakers published earlier this year.  Nowdays Special Sergeant Durrant is stationed at Eye and Debenham.

we 10 jn 09

des' dinners  Debenham Angel

Amanda, Ron, Tony M, the Gentleman Plumber, NaTCH and herwithabrainetc worryingly had a table reserved (it always seems like tempting fate) but things went very well in this comparatively recently new management pub.  Adnams beers with very good condition Broadside and excellent food with the ham of ham, egg and chips looking outstanding and the egg poached and poached without a poacher.  Conversation included Ron and Amanda attending the Cook Cup for the evening socialising, the resignation of parliament's speaker and that when Tony M was a town councillor he never took or received any expenses.  (first visit ~ subsequent lunch ~ previous lunch)

We've seen racketball at Essex University; it's played on a squash court with what looks a bit like a tennis ball and a short handled tennis racquet.  On the afternoons of the second Sunday in the month qualified coach Dennis Morley hosts at Debenham Leisure Centre an everybody-welcome-including-families-as-long-as-your-at-least-five-years-old session to try out racketball and squash.  Read the club newsletter here.