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Framlingham Market has a new web site
Where not *everyone* is barking!
Fram 2009 apr-jun ~ Fram in 2004 ~ soapbox racing
sa 21 fe 09

Paul Jarvis

New(ish) Framlingham College director of cricket and ex-England cricketer Paul Jarvis' cricket school for half term last week had a full turn out of younger players, in fact some very young indeed.  When we visited a committed Twenty20 match was in progress with wides being very popular, some outstanding catching and us more than once us having to dodge that flipping ball!

sa 14 fe 09

Love Miss Olga
Otters on Framlingham mereA pleasant side effect of the heavy rain earlier in the week was Duncan seeing an otter playing in the river Ore alongside Riverside in Framlingham.  See otters on the Fram mere here.
fr 13 fe 09A Citroen Berlingo vanAnother club premises in Framlingham burgled, police are interested in a Citroen Berlingo type van with ladders on top.
we 11 fe 09Big lumps and all sawn logsCretingham wasn't the only place with a flooding problem yesterday, the Elms car park in Framlingham flooded too.
3pm:  The Elms car park is no longer flooded but the flooding has left behind rubbish.  In Riverside the river Ore has some big lumps floating past.  A spectator observed that it's all sawn logs and they had been stuck under the footbridge in the Tanyard.
tu 10 fe 09Framlingham Conservative club was burgled last night.
 Anyone know who this clipboard man is?  He was having a nice poke round

Clipboard man snooping

in Fram's Stately Terrace this afternoon.
 We've been told that Hatcher Components in Framlingham, a Fairtrade town, has announced it will be making up to 15 of its 60+ employees redundant.
sa 31 ja 09

Little EgretJohn Byer who videoed otters on the mere has seen Little Egrets on the mere's western side of Framlingham mere.  (Impressive feet!  You can just see the starlings and sparrows taking the mick at bird school ... Here! Egey! Was yer mum frightened by a clown?)

fr 30 ja 09Previous Railway landlord Ang Hide on the right and in blackWe saw Ange Hide, the previous landlord of The Railway, waiting for a bus yesterday in Framlingham.  She's now landlord of The Drum in Hythe on the south coast but came back to Fram for the funeral of a long time Railway regular.
sa 24 ja 09

Reportedly the chip van had a fire at its preceding stop in Laxfield which is why it didn't make it to Framlingham Thursday.

we 21 ja 09

Cheeky Cheeky and the NosebleedsWe heard from Alistair Cheeky's dad yesterday that CC and the Nosebleeds are recording in Belgium.  Yes, that's what we said Belgium? but apparently it's an outstanding studio WITH a swimming pool.

mo 12 ja 09

A man was detained by armed police in the Framlingham Crown and Anchor Saturday afternoon, he appears to have been unknown to the staff and customers.

we 7 ja 09Good God!  It was minus 6 early yesterday morning.
mo 5 ja 09Gareth ClellandAfter four years doing work of national importance dispensing liquid therapy at the Framlingham Station yesterday was bar manager Gareth Clelland's last day, but he's only moving up the hill to become manager of the Crown Hotel.
th 1 ja 09Suppose the Framlingham Solar was to close?  Eventually those without transport would have to regress to Hunter-Gatherers.  Without the closeBlow-ins NOT shopping at Solar physical association of supermarket shopping H-Gs would soon loose their resistance to disease and would be wiped out when 600 new blow ins move on to the estate Hopkins Homes plan to build on the old Bibbys site.  An impossible nightmare scenario?  Perhaps, but Suffolk Coastal will no doubt being giving Hopkins Homes permission to do just that next Wednesday.

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