The tangos at yesterday's malonga in Stratford St Andrew were not the overly dramatic jobbies you've seen in films but attracted dancers from Northampton and Cambridge to the evocatively lit room with its decorated tables and next door mountains of tuck ... impressively as many men dancers as women.  Suffolk Tango are in Saxmundham at the end of October, we'll be there.

Hay in a field was set alight last night in Farnham, a money changing fiddle in Castle Street, Framlingham last week and pumps plus other stuff stolen from a garden in Lower Hacheston (that's the one east of the A12).

Air weapon fired at a car in Stratford St Andrew last night.

The Stratford St Andrew garage was broken into last night but the thieves failed to rob the cash dispenser; more encouragingly an engraved gold watch has been handed in to the Woodbridge cop shop.

An art and photography exhibition this weekend at the Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew.

Only the burger van on the field for the Stratford St Andrew boot sale when we passed this morning.  Arriving at Thorpeness in forceful wind and icy rain for the Heritage Coast Walk/Run the pa was playing ELO's Mr Blue Sky ... not surprisingly no tutus, only one pink wig we saw and the ninja look was popular though much pinkness in the Suffolk Breakthrough tent.  There were three different starts and we heard shouted at the departing second group That's the half marathon you donut!  Total respect to everyone who turned out.  More pix here

Two new artists (including painter Cyndi Speer) for the collective who showed at Brandeston in February and now showing at the Snape Malting's Pond Gallery until Wednesday.  Their next show is 20-22 August at the Stratford St Andrew Riverside Centre, more info here

Flying objects in Farnham and 14 year old Bobby Joe Skelton has been missing from his home in Lowestoft since Tuesday.

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How comfortingly traditional, in Farnham the fireworks actually are on bonfire night.

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Ex-Bonzo, Ruttle and endearing local celebrityette Neil Innes is playing the Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew this Friday, tickets limited but try Shelia Woods 01728 602740 (thanks to the GP).

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Big sign outside the Stratford St Andrew petrol station 'FULL TIME STAFF WANTED'.

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Boot sale this Sunday at Farnham/Stratford St Andrew.

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Some 500 ltrs of red diesel stolen from a Farnham farm.

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Freebie at Stratford St Andrew club tonight about keeping period properties warm, and it's not being too warm is it?

John Daniels was the landlord of the Farnham George (and Dragon), we're pretty sure, some time in the 80s.  His son was also called John Daniels so the George pool team would wittily sing in the style of a football chant There's only two John Daniels.  John Daniels senior passed away last week aged 79.

We first alighted near the coast in 1994 just a few feet from the A12 in Farnham.  The shop had closed the previous year and the post office was a booth in Coastal Glazing but the George and Dragon pub had a pool table in the back bar and Tolly's bitter, keg mild, a choice of two brown ales to go with it, sometimes poker dice and always conversation in the front.

We will be eternally grateful to the then, and as it transpired penultimate, landlord Leon Bonds for providing a place for us to join in the life of the village.  Sad to report Leon died suddenly of an aneurysm last Friday aged just 57.

When we first saw this early 50s pic of the Farnham George and Dragon we assumed it was the village not the pub sign but no, it's the pub sign and how unusual for a pub sign.  We think the G&D closed in 1995 but it was certainly our local when we first moved near the coast and it was serving Tolly's then.

Temporary traffic lights on the A12 in Farnham just before that sharp left when travelling north.

Farnham + Stratford St Andrew

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