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Sadly Stackton Tressel's toothpick shop The Minty Denty will cease trading at close of play Saturday.  Despite stocking a wide range of dental excavators and recently diversifying into cocktail sticks trading conditions have been sufficiently difficult that owner Owen Owan says he's had no option but to say Thank you and goodbye.

♫ We really l♥ve the Framlingham Chamber Concerts.  Yesterday afternoon in St Michael's George Ireland made JS Bach's intricate and interleaved pieces sparkle and fizz.  Next month's recital is the Collatus Piano Trio on the 20th.

♫ The wonderfully located Sweffling Printroom has collaborated with Flipside Festival for Sound Beginnings presented by composer John Mercer and critic Robert Stein.  Tomorrow night's Music Reimagines Itself is the penultimate and being the Printroom afterwards there will be great cake.

Pristine Cleaning is based in Brandeston.

Saturday fortnight the first Saturday in May nearly a dozen (11?  Yes, 11) organisations in the Framlingham Castle Rooms for a free History Fair.

If you like what we do you could buy us a coffee, sadly we can't accept Costa Coffee points but ... a lovely latte? ... a capricious cappuccino? ... how very kind.

East Anglian Britball starts Sunday with Ipswich Cardinals at Norwich Devils.

Yesterday's Ipswich Sport Karate Club's annual tournament in the Hacheston village hall had tea, cake and as usual a strong sense of community ... which is bit odd as their common interest is punching and kicking each other. :)

Tipple and a nibble 11am-2pm today in Saxmundham to view the George Farnham Gallery Spring Mixed Show.

Suffolk Truths No.111:  There are no motorways in Suffolk and in many places no dual carriageways either.

We'll have to buy a lawnmower so we can stop mowing for No Mow May and now May is when we should stop putting out bird feeders to mitigate trichomonosis (you can still sneak in some mealworms and suet).

#FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?

From 6pm Saturday a third drinks party at Art East in  DanceEast Ipswich for the last day of their Spring Show.

Heating oil stolen in Earl Soham and Wingfield ... just saying.

The small corner shop by Panorama in Framlingham has been a lot of things including last century where you queued for your Sunday papers.  It re-opens Saturday fortnight as Folk.

For us it's been a while (over a decade), the first Sunday of May it's the 42nd Heritage Coast Run from Thorpeness including an off road canicross style event with dogs.

Suffolk Overheard: ... That happened to my friend, she had an hysterectomy too when the bus stopped suddenly.

That's a pity the Bits and Bobs Sales in Wickham Market have ended.

Today 11am-4pm the Parham Airfield Museum opens today and for the summer while the Debach Airfield Museum opens the last summer Sundays of the month.

JOB Part time/full time Counter Assistant at Framlingham Pharmacy.

This morning 10:30am-12pm the constabulary will be in the Castle car park Framlingham offering bicycle marking.

♫ Next month at the Snape Maltings the Beccles Choral Society, the Phoenix Singers and the Lambeth Orchestra come together to perform Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

How to promote yourself on nearthecoast.com.

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. ♫