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34 candidates for today's Clacton by election.  Someone will get absolutely no votes because they didn't know you can vote for yourself and their mum voted for Farage ... well he will stop the boats, bring back national service, hanging and Pan Yan pickle.

We adored Sian Clifford playing Fleabag's sister Claire (I look like a pencil) in the tv sitcom ... well it was a bit more than a sitcom.  Sian Clifford is the eponymous Lady in the feature film comedy filmed at Somerleyton Hall dangerously near the Norfolk border.  Sat 19 Sep there's an outdoor showing at the Hall.

♫ We fancy baritone Rob Gildon with sopranos Charmian Bedford and Lucia Vernon Long at the Walpole Old Chapel Sunday fortnight. ♫

SRN Nearthecoast is in, doesn't feel any government has ever treated nurses fairly, is fiddling with her tick list and clicky pen but still listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com.

♫ We l♥ve the Framlingham mid week concerts in St Mike's and they return Wednesday the16th next month appropriately with also the return of pianist Duncan Honeybourne.  The programme will include two Robert Schuman pieces and the world premiere of Nicholas Marshall's Seven Bagatelles. ♫

In a lifetime of laughter and tears we have made it an unbreakable rule to never attend an event where cake is described as scrummy.

Worried too many people might turn up for your coffee morning?   Seance?  Sponsored Co-op card swap?  Swingers' party?  Don't do promotion on nearthecoast then.

Next Saturday Sweffling Village Fête is traditional with a fun dog show, beer and Pimms, pickle ball and you can pay with a card.

The Rural Coffee Caravan is in Benhall 10am-12pm tomorrow.

To the outsider motorcycle enduros may seem as inexplicable as roller derby.  There's an enduro at Butley next Sunday and organisers the Woodbridge DMCC are usually good about arrows to help find it.

Anorak Alert No.77:  The English subtitles for German film Stalingrad seem to confuse metres and meters but then the subtitles could be in American.

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.

The first and second weekends of September the Sweffling Printroom is joining with guest the Atelier Studio for a Stock Sale.  Private view Friday 4 September.

♫ Edith and the Framlingham Ladies Choir join Fram Ladies.

In parts ghost tale, murder mystery and l♥ve story Common Ground Theatre's autumn tour starting in Ipswich and October is The Phantom of Friar Street.

This month's show at the George Farnham Gallery Saxmundham is the solo Here, There and Everywhere by Hilary Barry.  The private view (which isn't really private) 5-7pm tonight with very agreeable complimentary drinks and nibbles.

Low tide today at Orford is 1:20pm.

♫ The Fressingfield Chapel Hall Arts is in itself a venue worth visiting and it's where Fressingfield Sounds are hosting their monthly concerts.  Saturday 12 September the Mancunium Consort perform choral works from a programme with many comfortingly familiar names but some we don't know which is good.

At the month end Butley Mills Studios are debuting Lorna Pridmore's solo show Into The Fray of sculptures and wall works.  Private view on the opening night 5-7pm Friday 21 August.

Sunday the first play off of the season ended Ipswich Cardinals 33-06 Swindon Storm.  For us noted for an outstanding catch by "Chewy" Hewitt ... more here.

Saturday week's Sweffling Village Fete has a dog show open to all (except pups under six months) with ten classes and musical mats.

From today we will be hydrating our garden from the water butt and bath because Essex and Suffolk Water will join Anglian Water in a hosepipe ban.  Our garden is 0.019 hectares that's 0.013 football pitches.

Life Skills No. 71:  This is why you should always have your folding tool with you.

Youthful enthusiasm at Maverick is July's Pic of the Month.

After the devastating fires the National Trust has started a fundraiser to restore Dunwich Heath.

Wednesday night's A Mid-Summer's Night Dream dress rehearsal in the Old Theatre Framlingham had an invited audience who were laughing and clapping.  Peter Hamilton Dyer's production is in the round with minimalist lighting and completely SOLD OUT. 

A man arrested for yesterday's early hours burglaries in Stowmarket and in Stradbroke where a woman needed hospital treatment.

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

Really like the artwork for this year's Burston Strike School Rally 6 Sep and the Red Flags look like they take no prisoners. ♫