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ntc digest - the Eel's Foot one

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we 20 Mar
2024
Spring Equinox

The Eastbridge Eel's Foot and the Middleton Bell have closed but hopefully only temporarily.  We've never quite made it to the Bell but visited the Eel's Foot a good few times when chum and one time landlord of the Farnham George Leon Bonds lived opposite and if memory serves Thursday nights were folk music night. ♫

The Life in the UK test should evaluate how interested British citizenship applicants are in house prices to be truly meaningful.

A Year And A Day Tomorrow week Raising Cain present in Dennington village hall A Year And A Day.  Based on a podcast it's a darkly funny theatre piece about a man travelling through time ... the bar will open no matter what.

 tu 19 Mar
2024

Mid-Suffolk Light Railway The Middy will light up (literally) the Sunday after next for Easter.  Real ale bar, bunny hunts, train rides and this year they are joined by the 34th Bomb Group who were station at RAF Mendlesham.

Suffolk Constabulary Yesterday between 2pm and 2:15pm tools were stolen from a van parked in Hall Road Wenhaston near the village hall.  Any info about this theft please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/15220/24. you can call 101.

♫ Certainly worth a revisit and created before AI.

We failed to make it to last year's Dallinghoo Plant and Cake Sale, it's next month, a little later and we'll be trying harder.

mo 18 Mar
2024

Apple's lightning connector PC Tips As plugs have got smaller in this connected digital world (Apple's lightning and the increasingly ubiquitous USB type C) the tolerances of the physical dimensions must be more critical.  Our experience is the cheaper varieties can be a sloppy fit and consequently less reliable.

The year moves on, the clocks go forward the weekend after next. The clocks go forward

Sunday Model Railway and Remote Control show at Stonham Barns, free entry for under 12s.

Junk you may need! Junk you may need!  Saturday Yoxford Boot Sale 9am-1pm with refreshments available.

su 17 Mar
2024
St Patricks's Day

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Suffolk Coastal in the upcoming general election (the government can only put it off for so long) is Jenny Riddell-Carpenter.  Despite 15 years experience in media relations and reputation management she has no social media presence we can find ... perhaps that'll change.

Buy us a coffee If you like what we do you can buy us a coffee, regrettably we can't accept a Costa Coffee points card ... a lovely latte?  How very kind.

fr 15 Mar
2024

Life Skills No. 56:  When pain killer shopping surprisingly (to us at least) Lemsip and its relatives counts as one of your two per shop.

th 14 Mar
2024

Burning Down The House - David Byrne ♫ Reason to be Cheerful 73 (probably means the list needs some culling) is David Byrne's staging of Burning Down The House.  The way you get a barefoot walking drum kit is to have six percussionists, a strange cut ending and his voice has rewardingly dropped a little becoming less squeaky.

Even if yours is a local event for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

we 13 Mar
2024
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Suffolk Constabulary Sometime between 5pm last Friday and 6.45am Monday in Eastbridge Lane Leiston the padlock on an outbuilding was cut off and power tools including chain saws, hedge cutters and circular saws were stolen.   Any info contact police quoting crime ref 37/13786/24, you can call 101.  Security advice can be found HERE.

tu 12 Mar
2024

Rough Cast present Top Girls New to us Top Girls one of the 10 greatest plays of the 20th century includes an hilarious dinner party and a Norfolk kitchen sibling confrontation.  Comedy and tragedy Rough Cast have started a seven date tour around near the coast, we'll try and catch them at the Wingfield Barns.

Nomadland We can much recommend Oscar winning Nomadland streaming on Channel 4 ... despite being about blue collar America it doesn't get violent.

mo 11 Mar
2024

Suffolk Constabulary Around 4:33am the Saturday before last two men poured liquid from a petrol can onto a front door in College Road Framlingham and set light to it.  Any info please contact Lowestoft CID Team 3 quoting reference 37/11924/24, you can call 101.

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