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hare scramble 2006 ~ motorbike trials 2006 ~ Fressingfield
mo 21 no 11

A polka dot handbag stolen in Tunstall Forest yesterday afternoon.

mo 7 no 11

Two shotguns burgled in Southwold, last night in Woodbridge several hundred pounds of cash burgled and this morning a ladies ring found in a toilet.  In Melton and Tunstall bags of clothing for the charity Sense pinched last week.

mo 31 mr 08

1889  The Eiffel Tower was completed

 

Richard Taylor at work This is Richard Taylor who designed and made the excellent Tunstall village sign ... the new(ish) Framsden sign is gratifyingly different too.

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we 19 mr 081928  The actor Patrick McGoohan was born
 

The road flooded between Blaxhall and Tunstall

The rain was so heavy Saturday night it woke us up but we were still a bit surprised that the by road between Blaxhall and Tunstall was still flooded yesterday.  A lady driver stopped to tell us the road was always flooding.

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su 10 fe 08

1942  Glenn Miller received for Chattanooga Choo Choo the first golden disc
 

The imaginative Tunstall village sign

Villages signs are a Suffolk thing but most are designed with the moronic literalness of Pan's People so it's surprising and gratifying that Tunstall Parish Council went for this ... but then no doubt some villagers think it's an eyesore and a disgrace ... they usually do.

su 30 de 07

1916  Ra Ra Rasputin murdered

 

Riders surveying a particularly muddy section

You can't imagine how steep this isThe Woodbridge Motor Cycle Club certainly keeps a steady stream of events coming.  Today in Tunstall Forest it was motorcycle trials, that's the one where competitors attempt to ride up (and down) walls with out putting a foot down.  Oddly enough we rather like the journeys between sections ... except when we slip over on the mud.  The silence in the fading Orange arrows light when there are no riders about and just the orange arrows for company can be quite spooky .  Wouldn't be at all surprised to meet Dorothy and Toto coming the other way.

mo 26 no 07

1966  The world's first major tidal power station opened on the Rance estuary in Brittany, France

 

Waiting for the start

When we drove past gate 25 in Tunstall Forest Saturday afternoon there was already a camper van village.  When we got there yesterday afternoon it wasn't a motorbike enduro but a dead engine scramble.  Dead engine means the race starts with the engines off and there's always some riders who have a job getting the bike started.

Just imagine ...

... how frustrating ...

... this must be!

sa 06 oc 071889  The Moulin Rouge opened in Paris
 

There's a motorbike enduro in Tunstall forest tomorrow morning, just follow the signs, the Woodbridge motorcycle club are good about that.

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