h♥me sweet h♥me

♫ Saturday the Phoenix Singers concert Vespers is in the Framlingham College Chapel with tickets here or from lots of local places.  In May the Phoenix join with Beccles Choral Society at the Snape Maltings for Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

The Art Station in Saxmundham has a silent auction running for a calendar month and ending next Wednesday.

Suffolk Overheard: (in a Woodbridge tea shop) It can't be Assam c'os you can't get Assam in teabags.

The year moves on, Sunday after next is the shortest day.

Crikey!  We haven't seen the splendid disorder that is the Rendham Mummers since before Covid.  For the solstice the Sunday after next it's Smugglers Ahoy! on the Knoll.  Just park on the playing fields and you'll find it plus an after party in the village hall.

♫ The programme's up for next year's Aldeburgh Festival.

We l♥ve Nerine Skinner's satires, today she's on quad skates

artEast have pointed out that Howard J Morgan exhibited with them but sadly passed away before the actual show.  His very desirable work is still available framed and signed.

We know about walking football but Saturday mornings at the Debenham Leisure Centre they have walking netball ... netball bibs pressed into different service today.

3-7pm tomorrow is the Saxmundham Christmas Fayre with a glitter bar and LED Hula Hoop Disco!, and mulled wine, mince pies and a free raffle ticket at the George Farnham Gallery in the High Street.

Only a bit surprising that both Al Murray and Austentatious SOLD OUT for early next month at the Norwich Theatre.

The village doesn't support you?  Promote yourself on nearthecoast.

It's so rewarding when someone gets it and Saxmundham's socialbar have bought us coffees and said nice things.  No doubt they'll be doing something special for Saturday's Christmas Fayre and we will re-visit soon to see a swan latte being constructed live.

The semi-retired Sweffling printroom (they're having a SALE the weekend 21-22 February) are planning the new web site Culture Edit Suffolk to focus on the small-scale arts scene in Suffolk.  You can help by taking their survey, it only took us two minutes.

We now live on Instagram at nearbythecoast so we'll be deleting alsoconsidered tomorrow.

It's day four on our Advent playlist ...

The Pascale Ferran Lady Chatterley is very French, long and involving.  It worried our anorak brain that twice at the spring a metal cup just appears whilst on a third occasion Lady C drinks from her hands ... it's the cross we bear.

The first window on your Advent calendar maybe today but yesterday was Advent Sunday.

The nearthecoast Advent playlist starts with our all time Christmas tv ad.

Anorak Alert No.73: Streamed Darkest Hour last night and enjoyed it but when the cabinet was discussing that unlike WWI the German tanks would be able to refuel at petrol stations surely in the 1940s that would have been American usage ... like calling a lorry a truck?

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