earlier in Fram

Plenty of paracetamol and cat litter in the Framlingham Coop yesterday but judging by the shelf mouthwash is the new panic buy.

To link to one of our internal header pages the syntax is always all lower case with no dashes or underscores so Framlingham is www.nearthecoast.com/framlingham

 JOB  The Framlingham Crown are recruiting a full time supervisor/team leader.

Tomorrow's Film @ Fram (these days it's in the Framlingham Unitarian and £6 for non-members) is the multilingual The Farewell.

Tragedy!  After 40 years the wonderful stationers Barnes Rosher slightly hidden in a corner of Framlingham's Market Hill is closing this Saturday the 29th ... so regrettably something else we'll be buying online.  Why is everything happening on the 29th this February?  What if it wasn't a leap year?

When what is now Carley Hill Hair and Framlingham Travel was Carley & Webb it had a small but enjoyable toy department.  Shortly after C&W changed hands maybe 15 years ago we saw a supermarket trolley of toys being pushed away from from the shop.  What goes round comes round and Bridges and Garrard are filling the retail gap.

♫ New to us a youthful busker on Framlingham market yesterday.

Framlingham's (and other places) friendly fishmonger Darren Smith now has his own Facebook page.

Kate's Reading Club for Children runs 10:00am-12:00pm Saturdays in the Framlingham library, read your own, the school's or the library's books.

Woodcraft Folk develops children's self confidence and awareness of the world, encouraging equality, friendship and co-operation.  The Framlingham group meet during term time 6:00-7:30pm Mondays in the Unitarian.

We thought it was going to be end of the month but John Grose in Station Road Framlingham have pretty much moved out.

♫ Trailer Trash are back (always a good sign) at the Framlingham Castle tomorrow.

Last Monday of the month Stowmarket auctioneers Bishop & Miller will be valuing antiques 10:00am-01:00pm at the Framlingham Crown.

Christmas' advent windows in Double Street Framlingham raised £933.25 for the Ipswich Hospital Children's Appeal and Save the Children.  That's nearly 50% more than 2018's £640.

No Coffee Pod on Framlingham market today, Antony has hurt his back.

Framlingham on old post cards, Bridge Street over the decades, an unidentified event at the castle drawing a large crowd and fancy dress on Peace Day 1919.

A film crew (well, two people) in Double Street Framlingham filming (not surprisingly eh?) the advent windows.  This year's charities are the Ipswich Hospital Children's Appeal and Save the Children.

♫ We're very please to welcome back Garth Brooks' separated at birth twin brother Man in the Hat who can be seen Christmasing in the Framlingham post office.  MitH will be welcoming the New Year in Norfolk ... well somebody has to.

TODAY is last posting second class in time for Christmas (Friday for first class) and it may be Christmas next week but house prices are still interesting, active in Framlingham and Wickham Market.

Christmas roller disco in the Tommy Mills sports hall Framlingham tomorrow am.

12:30pm:  A little while ago there was a queue to vote in Riverside Framlingham.  If you don't vote you have no right to moan, GO AND VOTE!

Geese in Crown and Anchor Alley Framlingham?

Regrettably we couldn't stay long for today's Peter Pan in Framlingham but there was an incredibly supportive audience, as last year impressive lighting effects and twirling on off ice roller skates from all ages.

ArtDog are poppIng up this week in the Framlingham Art and Frame Shop and offering porcelain bling, jewellery, prints and ceramics from £15.

 JOB   A practice manager wanted by Framlingham Vets, managerial experience essential but not necessarily veterinary.

We were pleased to see the dress rehearsal Framlingham's Off-Ice Skating Club's Christmas show Peter Pan.  Like last year's show this year's is charming and has lots of impressive lighting effects.  More info and tickets from pippatigerlove@talktalk.net.

The Horse Show and Framlingham Flyers in sporty Fram 2008-07.

Sporting Fram has become sporty Fram, there is reason.

 JOBS  Two CSCS labourers wanted to start next week on the outskirts of Framlingham.

Heartening that there were so many people in the St Michael's Framlingham churchyard yesterday for Remembrance Sunday.

Political discussion on the Fen Meadow Framlingham ... well it is Suffolk.

Canadian actress Shea  Wojtus has joined Framlingham Ladies.

It's the Framlingham Flyers cross country this Sunday.  It will start on the Castle Meadow though we're a bit vague about the time.  A water person at this year's 10k told us the route was changed slightly last year but surely it will still include the perilous swoop down into the castle moat.

Designated Public Place Orders (DPPOs) were enacted in a bunch of near the coast towns over ten years ago.  They aren't simple drinking bans, it's not illegal to have wine with a picnic as long as a copper doesn't ask you stop ... read the question.  DPPOs have been replaced by Public Space Protection Orders and last month East Suffolk Council resolved (didn't they vote?) to remove the DPPOs (number seven in the minutes).  Impressively they also thought to remove the signs that imply Framlingham Fen Meadow is the haunt of drunken muggers rather than sober(ish) dog walkers.

Framlingham AmDram's autumn show is Abandonment by Kate Atkinson.  The show runs this Wednesday 30 October to Saturday 2 November at the College theatre, get tickets at www.fadsweb.co.uk/tickets.

Last night in the Headmaster Porter Theatre at Framlingham College.

 JOB  Catering Assistant wanted at the Mills Meadow care home Framlingham.

Theatre company Gibbons & Gaulier present their three handed vaudeville style comedy The Affair at Framlingham College Theatre Friday.  Theatre of the absurd, clowns, French farce, slapstick... a generous helping of stage comedy.

Standing by the Over the Moon coffee stall on Framlingham market a tiny grabbed hold of our trouser leg to help him get up on the step.  When you're that small it must be difficult to tell the difference between people and furniture.

Tragedy!  Long term Framlingham.market trader Chrissie will now only be attending at Christmas and other special days.  We recall one absolutely freezing Saturday she came into The Crown and removed three anoraks ... we will be missing her superior eggs.

Moistness didn't disrupt yesterday's Framlingham sausage festival, loads of people and plenty of catering alternatives to a piece of sausage on a stick.

Usual lazy media patronising shite that anything not metropolitan is cutesy, this time Woodbridge and Framlingham ,.. mind you they managed to show Fram Castle without the sound of recorders and lutes.

Extinction Rebellion protest in Stately Terrace Framlingham.

 JOB  Framlingham College are recruiting a suitably qualified accountant.

 JOBS  Wanted in Framlingham a junior project manager, in Debenham a 14 month contract accounts assistant and in Woodbridge a booking administrator plus at Jewson at a customer service advisor.

At least two people have told us that that there Ed Sheraton was in the Framlingham Station we think last week and with his lady .

John Bridges sent us a pic of the wooden building in Fore Street Framlingham which was the Christian Science reading room for at least two decades ... more here

The Framlingham Pageant Field has temporary toilets.  When we visited the gents it was impressively clean, a choice of four hand dispensers (we chose restore), no paper towels in the dispenser and if you stood still long enough the lights went out.

♫ Edith Peck is forming in Framlingham a female acapella group of maybe eight singers.

For today's Framlingham Flyers 10k the start moved from the usual New Road to outside The Crown on the Market Hill.  By the time the race had got to the right turn into Castle Street Fram Flyer Andrew Rooke had already put distance between himself and the bunch, not surprisingly he went on to win.  We were impressed by Andrew's veteran team mate Adam Howlett's fourth place and as always the cheerful endeavour of the back markers.

Very sorry to say goodbye to Brian Tom Thomas this afternoon in the Framlingham College Chapel.

In the St Michael's churchyard and 2015 added to Framlingham Ladies.

 JOBS  Two care assistants wanted at Mills Meadow Framlingham, senior and not senior,

 JOB  First line IT support wanted in Framlingham the silicon thingy of near the coast. ... it's got two zebra crossings.

What was the Christian Science reading room in Fore Street Framlingham has been made over with abstract paintings on the walls, uplighters, a very swish glass desk/counter and a full length mirror ...

A lost goose (or possibly duck) in the Fen Meadow Framlingham,

Yesterday's Framlingham wedding at St Mike's.

Anorak Alert No.28:  A bit picky considering the hours of filler Ned Boulting has to generate commentating on the Tour de France but Geraint Thomas was 32 when he won last year not 36 ... and here's why the Le Tour is unlikely to visit Framlingham, it would exceed local authority imposed fun limits.

Presenter of tv show Coast and president of the Royal Geographical Society Nicholas Crane was on the Market Hill today and bought some books in the Framlingham Bookshop ... well they are very popular.  Tonight in St Clare's the Ladies Choir present their Summer Concert. ♫

Little brown mouse in Stately Terrace Framlingham.

Unlike the Framlingham Co-op but like Co-op Dailys the Laxfield Co-op stays open until 10pm.

We can quite understand that when you've cycled a hundred miles a short cut must be very appealing but we were a little surprised early yesterday morning to see two Dun Runners sneaking across the Framlingham Fen Meadow.  Later in Fore Street we saw more Dun Runners emerging from Fairfield Road:)

Just noticed that the Framlingham Station Beer Festival is four days this year.

The 106th Tour de France started today in Brussels and yet again it's not coming anywhere near Framlingham.

Sporting Framlingham ... remember the bungee jump?

Stallholder Karl on Framlingham's Saturday market joins our Suffolk Gentlemen.

Next Saturday the Phoenix Singers present at Framlingham College Mozart - The Final Year, which includes the overture to The Magic Flute. ♫

Some date confusion over this week's Framlingham swift walk?

In a Stately Terrace Framlingham garden this morning a sparrowhawk (NOT a goshawk) that had just taken something smallish.

Monday waiting for the Women's Tour Church Street Framlingham looked how it must have looked before cars took over the world, more people fewer cars.  Even in the late sixties Church Street by the Crown and Anchor still looked pretty peaceful.

In the miserable wet the 2019 Women's Tour passed through Framlingham today as one single not particularly interested peloton.  In the evening on the telly (our word those presenters are annoying) Brit Abby-Mae Parkinson animated the race staying away for 20+k and then caught inside the final two kilometers.  Her bike frame looks so small there's barely room for a bottle cage.:)

Don't know who was getting married in St Mike's Framlingham today, despite the rain the couple looked very happy but there was a mixed effect.

Last year in Framlingham.

 JOB  Indoor Pig Stockperson wanted (presumably near) Framlingham.

Remember Hassan who opened the Pizza Grill in Bridge Street Framlingham?  These days he is the California Grill in Ipswich but today was on the Castle Meadow for the Gala Fest with his baby son Hassan Jnr.  The paella looked wonderful and judging by the queue probably was.  Lots of smiles and as always the Gala Princesses looked and were princessly.

Very pleased to welcome back supporter (next available slot 8th July) Man in the Hat.  Not surprisingly tomorrow the Framlingham Gala Fest will again be deploying his fine tenor chest voice at the sports club.

European elections TODAY though like the council elections you'd be hard pressed to notice.  So far around Stately Terrace Framlingham a difference of opinion and two leaflets from the Greens.

A very good job has been made of tidying up the fallen oak in Framlingham, an impressive before and after.

European elections Thursday though like the council elections you'd be hard pressed to notice.  So far around Stately Terrace Framlingham a difference of opinion and two leaflets from the Greens.

Last year in Framlingham.

Today in Framlingham a Plant Sale in the United Free and a Makers Market in the Unitarian (that's the one in Bridge Street).

Remember Roy at the Framlingham Crown (yes, he owes us money too), the Ladies Night, when the Crown had no gas and the NewYear's Eves congas?  We've moved stuff about and now there's a Framlingham Crown section going back to 2004.

♫ Baron Du Dongleur's open mike at the Framlingham Castle Inn 9pm tonight.

In Framlingham the oak tree on a bit of grass by the footpath to the Elms car park fell down yesterday afternoon thankfully without injury except to a fence.  Reportedly it collapsed gracefully.

♫ Vix and the Kicks (she does make the effort) at the Framlingham Castle Inn tomorrow night. ♫

We have the handbill for the 1952 British Rail special run for the Framlingham Gala (poignant as regular passenger services to Fram ended in the October of that year) but we've mislaid the 1950s Gala prog offering a bicycle as the raffle's first prize and a running race class for unmarried ladies only.

 JOB  The Framlingham Lemon Tree is looking for a waiting person.

Theatrical the approaching weekend.  The Harleston Players start Friday a run of the restoration comedy The Beaux Stratagem, Open Space Theatre present Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Hoxne and at the Halesworth Cut, and in Framlingham Rosy Carrick's one woman show Passionate Machine.

 JOBS  A weekend barista and waiting person wanted at the The Tea Hut Woodbridge and relief doorman/men being recruited in Framlingham where it got a bit warm yesterday in a conservatory.

The oil seed rape is looking very yellow around Framlingham and the Fram doctors are looking to recruit a practice manager for their forward thinking, friendly ... rural practice.

Poignant, possibly even sad, to see the Conservative Club in Church Street Framlingham boarded up.

 JOB  First line support engineer in Framlingham.

Do you remember Alan and Henri landlords of the Framlingham Castle Inn around 2011?  Henri moonlighted as a belly dancer?  Stumbled across them from a roadside notice on the way to Norwich, since last year they've been the Diss Emporium.

Today on Framlingham market a young girl old enough to have a mobile phone accidentally knocking her entire untasted real lemonade into her lap reacted with Ah, that was refreshing ... a future Victoria Woods.

 JOB  Board outside the Framlingham Lemon Tree says Cook wanted, apply within.

♫ We last visited the Yoxford Griffin when Ange (then late of the Framlingham Railway) was the landlady.  This Sunday it's Dixie's everybody welcome afternoon/evening Buskers.

 JOB  Painter and decorator wanted at Framlingham college with perks lunch most of the time and leisure centre membership.

 JOB  Restaurant supervisor with an engaging smile wanted in Framlingham and at the college a design and technology teacher ... doesn't seem to mention smiling in the job spec for the teacher but the applicant needs to be dynamic.

Yesterday afternoon's birthday tea party in the Framlingham Unitarian .

The first time we visited Stately Terrace Framlingham a ginger cat rushed up and told us they loved us.  After we moved to the Terrace we learnt that the ginger belonged to Sally our near neighbour and had been named George on the usually safe assumption that he was a tom.  In fact George was a betty as they call female cats in Suffolk.  A sunny day years later we could see George curled up asleep on Sally's garden roof ... an hour later George was still there unmoving.  George had passed away sleeping in the sun ... can't think of a nicer way to go.

Lot's more years later Sally who always had two or three cats also sadly passed away.  We've seen the new people in Sally's house with a tortoiseshell kitten ... what goes round comes round.

♫ Baron Du Dongleur's open mike at the Framlingham Castle Inn 9pm tonight.

 JOB  Catering assistant needed at Framlingham College.

As always changes in the present continue to unhook linkages to the past.  After over ten years at the Conservative Club Film @ Fram (the club originally showed in the British Legion Albert Road ... we saw Topsy Turvy there) has moved to the Unitarian Meeting House.  A single source reports the Con Club SOLD to a private buyer.

Businesses Open as Usual in Fairfield Road Framlingham ... that would be St John's then.

The now not so new zebra crossing in Station Road Framlingham has had the barriers removed but no sign of the belisha beacons.

It's coming up to two month's since a new zebra crossing was installed in Station Road Framlingham and it's still not operational but more cheerfully a 3pm matinee only Treasure Island pantomime in the St Michael's Rooms Saturday.

Pop up shop Carousel in Bridge Street Framlingham has been an impressive success.  Previously it was ladies clothes and this week it is paintings by Peasenhall artist John Bawtree.  His works are thoughtfully attractive and are of both local Suffolk scenes and overseas including Venice, France and Zanzibar!

Today is Victoria's pearl anniversary in the Framlingham Bookshop.

Throwback Thursday:  Twelve years ago today much of Framlingham had been without gas for some 24 hours, it happened again four years later.

It's all the go in and about near the coast, temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with.  Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowmarket (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket.  Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge are copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!

 JOB  Enthusiastic small animal vet wanted in Framlingham.

Though we are and always will be blow ins we do remember Love Lane off Brook Lane and the footpath across the Fen Meadow Framlingham being surfaced.  Certainly surfacing Love Lane made life easier for pram pushers taking older children to Bobby Hitchams but it did feel like suburbanisation.  Now it's the footpath off Fairfield Road's turn.

 JOB  Consultant Level Support to Director in Framlingham with a 50” TV with Sky, a pool table, table tennis, a dartboard and a beer fridge ... phew!

As Lady KRJ observed of Framsden soprano Laura Wright you think of her as looking cold in an evening dress on a rugby pitch whilst fluting the national anthem.  In unseasonably good weather she certainly didn't look chilly wedding at St Michael's Framlingham just before Christmas and as expected at a wedding statement hats.

Gill Knight reports that the advent windows in Double Street Framlingham raised £640 for the two charities.  Three year old Idris wasn't too sure about the cow and donkey peeking out of the stable at the Castle Street end and wouldn't come near to stroke them.