h♥me sweet h♥me

It's all the go in about near the coast temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with.  Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowmarket (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket.  Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge is copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!

Advert slots above and in the twice(ish) monthly digest available NOW.  So to tell near the coast about yourself with £11.95 but BOGOF, that's two months for the price of one ... first come first served.

09:40am: The bulletin board will be unavailable for a bit while it is upgraded.

12:02pm: That could have been easier, in the end did a full re-install, board's back.

You can see our our Alamy stock photography by clicking on 

We found French director Céline Sciamma's film Tomboy highly involving and rewarding not least because it made the Parisian suburbs look idyllic.  So very gratifying to find a sealed copy of her later film Girlhood in the Framlingham EACH chazza.  Here the banlieue is relentlessly gritty and though Vic essentially remains trapped in her situation the opening sequence is women's american football from team Les Molosses.

 JOB  Chef de Partie wanted at Framlingham College.

Suffolk Roller Derby men's single bouter at Inspire Ipswich this afternoon.

Perhaps obvious but if your wireless mouse/keyboard gobbles batteries get some rechargeable batteries and a charger.  Rechargeable batteries come in ... more here

Bury St Edmunds may not be near the coast but it is in Suffolk, was the county town of West Suffolk and is home to brewer Greene King and roller rink Curvemotion so it now has its own page, and why not?

Today the twice(ish) a month digest will email out to the 1900+ ntcers on the list ... click Jaques Tati to go on the list.

2019 is the centenary year of Aldeburgh Cinema (Leiston pre-dates them by five years) and they will be marking it with their first Cinema on the Beach.  We've been told that Aldeburgh folk would dress up for the cinema and be greeted in the foyer by the manager wearing evening dress, a floral buttonhole and smoking a cigar ... these days celebrities don't feel the need for a tie:)

Dr Nearthecoast is in and listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com

The Bury Saints have moved over the county line from Thetford to play at Red Lodge Sports Pavilion in Suffolk this year .... appropriate eh?

How to promote yourself on nearthcoast.com.

We've added Swiss national road race cycling champion Nicole Hanselmman to Ladies in Framlingham.

Rural Myth 77:  In Suffolk a homosexual is a man who likes women better than tractors.

Life Skills 23: If you enjoy hearing Desert Island Discs Sunday morningd you might like its slightly posher cousin Private Passions which follows on Radio 3.  The chosen music often has a wider range and presenter Michael Berkeley's musical knowledge and resonant voice add a further dimension ... just saying.

Hollesley gets its own page, and why not?

 JOB  Enthusiastic small animal vet wanted in Framlingham.

Though we are and always will be blow ins we do remember Love Lane off Brook Lane and the footpath across the Fen Meadow Framlingham being surfaced.  Certainly surfacing Love Lane made life easier for pram pushers taking older children to Bobby Hitchams but it did feel like suburbanisation.  Now it's the footpath off Fairfield Road's turn.

If yours is a local event for local people then you won't need How to promote your event on nearthcoast.

Our A to Z of ntc helps you find your town or village but unlike a satnav it kills 99% of all known germs, doesn't have a patronising voice and has never knowing undersold.