Despite chillingly miserable rain there'd already been a customer for PCSO Kevin Mann at the mobile police station in Walpole when we visited last Monday morning, Nat Bocking had visited to tell Kevin about the handy bus project.  The Suffolk Coastal mobile is one of four in the county and has on board Internet, loads of info, can postcode free bicycles and mobile phones and has a computer linked speed indicator display to monitor traffic speed through a village.  We followed Kevin on to Rendham but the rain seemed even more penetrating so we didn't hang about.

The Suffolk archive film festival running through October and November includes Peasenhall, Stonham Aspel, Great Glemham and Rendham.

Can't think of anything nicer, three course meal, 50p could win you a case of very decent red wine and the 90% cocoa mezzo voice of Lauren Walker ... plus the catch you out surprise of her accompanist James Platt having a very decent voice too.  All in aid St Michael's Rendham and next month a Suffolk archive film show.

Judging by the smiling faces and laughter people were enjoying this year's Rendham Field Dance perhaps even more than last year.  During the break the children had a wonderful time straw fighting though one small boy continued to consider us fair game after it had ended ... so we got him to hold a strobe.  More pix here and prints available here.

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.

Pix of Saturday's jazz gig in St Michael's Rendham here.

Artist and Rendham resident Maggi Hambling has been made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).

St Michael's in Rendham last night was looking lovely with so many candles and quite toasty under the red glow of the wall heaters for the concert given by outstanding players Jessica Hayes cello and Rafal Luc accordion.  The unlikely duo complemented beautifully with us sometimes not clear which instrument was making the low sustained notes and during the very modern piece Tahtela, Place of the Stars they even on occasion sounded like guitar shredders ... and in the intermission there were warm sausage rolls, more pix here.

Quite a musos's day near the coast yesterday; we didn't make it to Benhall Music Day because Le Tour was just too exciting but in the evening Anna Noakes and Gabriella Dall'Olio at Rendham Church (which has a very pleasant just reverberant enough acoustic) sounded and looked just brilliant.  (The harp is such an ethereal instrument even when you can see it being played the sound seems to be appearing from out of the ether.)  You can see Anna and Gabriella again next month at the Yoxford Arts Festival.  More pix here.

Later the ultimately hardworking Mood Swings at the Framlingham Station beer festival.  Their line up has changed slightly since last year and they seem more confident.  On the final, final number your man on the keyboard's solo messed with the time and everyone still knew where four was ... just:)  They're playing again today.  More pix here.

This year's Rendham Field Dance gets its own page.

Yesterday some 10 miles away from Maverick in Rendham ceilidh band Happy Feet were making the crowd kick, skip, twirl and laugh in an idyllic setting, more here - in Framlingham at Mid Summer Madness three barrels of Earl Soham were consumed.

At least two of our cats claim Scottish ancestry (which is a bit rich when you've got Costa Rica written on your side) so they're looking forward to Saturday's Field Dance in Rendham which is dancing in a field under the stars to a live Ceilidh band.

Postponed:  Next month's concert in Rendham church has been put back a day.

You have to pay to get in but in there in the middle of a field in the middle of some other fields in the middle somewhere between Rendham and somewhere else mud was  flying as were motorbikes being ridden by people of all persuasions including the female, the distinctly portly and the very young indeed.  It's just so real, see it if you can.