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♫ The next Framlingham Concert is the Woolf String Quartet Wednesday next week.  Buy a ticket online or by email and be entered into a draw for free tickets to the four spring concerts.

♫ In the afternoon and the Debenham Leisure Centre Friday fortnight it's dancing and quizzing with Elvis at a 1960s Party! (period dress optional).

Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

Our thanks to the George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham for a generous handful of coffees.  Their winter show has work by over 30 artists and makers and includes paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, wood, jewellery and more ...

Number 12 on our Reasons To Be Cheerful is La Fille Mal Gardée.  As an alternative to bonfire night tonight you could see the ballet at 7:15pm and Aldeburgh Cinema.

Suffolk Overheard:  I'm a battler me ... no battler not butler!

St John the Baptist Badingham is Suffolk's most at risk church.  To help fund it's restoration there's a bookshop and 10-12 Saturday morning it's having a SALE.

♫ Saturday in the Sweffling hut An Evening with Jane Austen with a supper.

Already Christmas is making us ill at ease but Sudbourne Printmakers must be braver as they have two weekend shows coming up with complimentary mince pies and mulled wine.

 JOB  Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter is recruiting a case worker, apps close 17 November.

This weekend to mark Framlingham Community Library's centenary there will be coffee mornings Saturday and Sunday plus a time capsule to bury in the Hay Loft.  Preloaded free SIMs are available at Suffolk Community Libraries as part of the Good Things Foundation's digital inclusion.

♫ Don't expect the Sweffling Jam Parties to return but Friday the 21st Slate Barn Arts will be hosting Concert for Gaza.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will give you that nice warm feeling of having done the right thing.

Support for Windows 10 ended last month but you can extend it for free.

We had a sneak peek of John Bridges' new book Framlingham - A Portrait Through Time last month and were particularly impressed by the flowing draughtmanship of Leonard Squirell's illustrations.  The book launches today 10am-1pm in the Fram Community Rooms.

Saxmundham's Social Bar lives up to it's name with nights for board games, quizzing, etc and tonight a Spook Nite fancy dress encouraged with prizes.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emails out today at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

Particularly liked these ghosts in Castle Keep Framlingham.

We saw Common Ground's The Tales Our Mother Told! in the Framlingham Community Rooms and it was an intriguing mix of drama and entertaining farce.  The tour ends soon with last chances tonight in Southwold and tomorrow Aldeburgh.

This weekend Butley Mills Studios hosts Tinderbox II.

Running in the Framlingham Corner Room until Sunday is the three artist show Between Surfaces.  The private view (which isn't private and with fizz) 3:00-7:30pm Friday.

Near the coast and east of the A12 pedant farmers shout Get orf my sand!

Sunday the clocks had gone back so in the middle of Oxford Brookes at UEA Pirates we updated the clock on our camera.  DON'T do it in the middle of something, the pix not in chronological order will be very confusing in the edit.