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There's an initiative for the community to buy the Brundish Crown, we hope they succeed near the coast certainly doesn't need fewer pubs.

Things to do tomorrow include a Maker's Market in the Framlingham Unitarian, the Large Model Association's Air Show at Tibenham (it's over the border nearish to Long Stratton) and men's British Championship roller derby at Inspire Ipswich.

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♫ This Saturday the organ festival in Diss (including The Grange Musical Collection) sounds good fun, pity it clashes with roller derby in Ipswich.

Duck on a wall in Fairfield Road Framlingham.

 JOB  Wanted in Framlingham by Conrad Consulting an office administrator.

No skate outs (when the skaters are introduced to the spectators) at Sunday's Norfolk Brawds' hosted British Championship roller derby bout in Norwich. ... more here

 St Mary's Wilby has a drop in coffee morning tomorrow.

Stonham Aspal may have lost it's pub but the village hall is very active with bingo, film, pub and quiz nights.

Let the world know about your roller derby league, self help or self harming group by emailing ntc@nearthecoast.com or text 07970 865730

British Championships roller derby in Norwich TOMORROW.

Very pleasant to welcome back advertiser Framlingham's Kitchen Range & Cookshop.

This afternoon the twice(ish) a month digest emailed out to the 1700 odd ntcers on the list ... click Jaques Tati to go on the list.

Do you recall Windows Millennium Edition?  Released in September 2000 (a year before Win XP) it was Windows 98 with some extra goodies like Movie Maker.  We always suspected that Lady KRJ thought everybody else's copy said Windows Kate ...

Wild Willy Barrett was one half of ♫ Really Free ♫ with John Otway, and surprisingly played at race driver Gerry Marshall's funeral.  Willy's current band French Connection will be playing Wilby Village Hall tomorrow... seems unlikely eh?  (BTW Otway's House of the Rising Sun is brilliant.) ♫

At the beginning of last month bizarre behaviour by an elderly Lowestoft dog walker.

It's the fourth Pirate's Ball this weekend starting tomorrow night in Thorington. ♫

ASTONISHER No.42:  Ricky Valance was the first Welshman to have a UK number one record, very easy to get him confused (like this bloke) with Richie Valens who died in the Buddy Holly plane crash.

12 noon Saturday there's a share launch in Wickham Market to buy and restore The George which has been closed since a major fire in April 2013.

Very excellent turnout yesterday for the unveiling of Parham's new village sign.  Regrettably traffic noise made it a little difficult to hear Peter Kindred's design explanation but parish clerk Lydia Kirk (we remember her as a police special in Framlingham) will be posting the ... more here

We've paid for Suffolk Coastal's garden rubbish collection starting this month.  We've opted for the bigger bin and were looking forward to re-purposing the old bin to store yet to be chopped up kindling ... but the bigger bin doesn't arrive until August.

Wickham Market Flower Club held an open meeting at the end of last month.

Last week a Browning shotgun was stolen in a Knodishall burglary.

At the second attempt (the Beast from the East knacked the preceding attempt) Alfie the Labrador pursues a theatrical career in Once Upon a Labrador at the Wingfield Barns tonight.  Next Saturday it's Richard Digance with some chap called Eric. ♫

Middy in the War Years tomorrow at Brockford Station Wetheringsett.

Our four advertising slots above and the two on the twice(ish) monthly digest are booked up to June.  You can have a month's worth (starting June obviously) for £11.95

♫ Musical nights out tomorrow around near the coast include 5 In A Bar at St Mary's Sweffling with refreshments (we last 5 In A Bar at the 2014 Great Glemham Christmas show), and Man in the Hat at the Knodishall Butchers Arms. ♫

Thunderbird is the free multiple Operating System email app that's particularly useful if you're running an older OS.  It's moved from the Mozilla web site to its own domain ... hopefully we don't have to have a bad feeling about this.