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Motorcycle trials tomorrow at Blaxhall, they're usually well signposted.

Last chance to visit Parham Airfield Museum this year.

JOB  Watson & Walpole in Fram are recruiting a permanent part timer with a mature outlook, email admin@watsonandwalpole.com

That crept up on us, the clocks go back in the early hours tonight.

♫ The Fressingfield Chapel Hall Arts is in itself a venue worth visiting and it's also where Fressingfield Sounds are hosting their monthly concerts.  Next month the programme of Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin and Huw Watkins piano includes Spiegel im Spiegel. ♫

Moving to near the coast last century Channel 4's The Dinner Party would occasionally pop up in a faintly sensational way but we hadn't seen it.  Wading through the adverts to stream it we recognised George from the Framlingham Railway.

Daddy Christmas's red hatted head is already popping up; breakfast with Santa at the Snape Maltings and steam train rides at the Wetheringsett Middy.

The tractorati quiver with antici ... pation for the nearthecoast digest that emails out at tea time.  Get your free copy by clicking on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

It's taken us quite a while to discover the missing Likes button on X nee Twitter that used to be next to Reposts.  It has moved under the History tab on the left, just click History.

This week we put an elderly laptop plus bits on top of the blue lidded wheelie bin for the small electricals collection ... the bin men didn't take them.  The collection has been temporarily suspended since April because of a fire at the Thetford Recycling Centre ... April ... that's six months ago, the temporary traffic lights were in Fairfield Road Framlingham for two years.

♫ Yesterday Clélia Iruzun and Shelley Levy in St Michael's Framlingham closed their recital with the new to us Messager's Solo de Concourse which has clarinet parts so frenetic we feared for Shelley's fingers.  The next Fram Concert is pianist Jill Crossland 18 November. ♫

In 2010 the Beeb was going to close 6 Music but didn't.  In 2020 they were going to close the red button text service but didn't.  Now they are going to close Radio 4 Extra née Radio 7.  Spoken word radio is such a delicate flower it really needs protecting.

Five months of road works around Martlesham but as nobody much including parish or county councils feels the need for a map we don't really know where.

An Earl Soham business was broken into late Saturday night and a red and black Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle reg A O02 TEU wheeled to a white van.  Any info contact police quoting crime reference 37/61540/26, you can call 101.

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

At the George Farnham Gallery in Sax Lupe Cunha's Seeking the Colour continues to run until Saturday.

London Fields is the East London park where the Dunwich Dynamo starts, this could make it more interesting.

Hitchcock's North by North West is on the Beeb's iPlayer, we've always thought the bus stop in the middle of nowhere ... a bit Suffolk.

The Presence of Snowgood is a modern day horror starring Hammer Horror queen and Talking Pictures' The Cellar Club presenter Caroline Munro, see it at Dennington village hall Friday after next.

Police are asking motorists in the area at the time of the fatality on the Orwell Bridge to review any dashcam footage.  Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting 37/61160/26, you can call 101.

♫ The Phoenix Singers will be 50 this year and celebrating with a December concert of Purcell. Bach, Mozart and Pittoni.  What's more they have a new musical director the acclaimed singer and conductor Tom Appleton. ♫

Launch party last weekend on Sizewell beach of the mobile wood fired Sizewell Sea Sauna which starts regular weekend service this weekend.