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♫ The Gainsborough String Quartet pumped up to a sextet next Friday at the Wingfield Barns will be playing Schubert's Trout Quintet with a little Piazolla on the side ... can't wait. ♫

♫ The wonderfully grumpy Rich Hall is back at next year's Maverick Festival.

♫ The Suffolk Savoyards at Chapel Hall Arts Fressingfield tomorrow evening for An alphabetical romp through the solos, duets, trios and quartets of G&S ... box office 01379 384656 ♫

Mid-Suffolk Carriage Driving for the Disabled quiz night tonight in Brandeston village hall, BYOB and email to book jen@jenpearson.co.uk

The fortnightly(ish) digest emailed out at teatime ... click Jaques Tati to get yours for free ...

RSPCA Suffolk have a fundraising Mud Run at Wantisden Sunday ... we've been to a mud run ... it was near Hollesley.

♫ Saturday the Trio Asteri will be debuting the Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh.  Their unlikely line up of piano with flute and bassoon will include repurposed works by Piazzolla, Max Richter and Sally Greenaway's Little Red Fox ... tickets here. ♫

As you may realise the East of England Co-op likes to think it's special which is probably why it chose to do parking at Framlingham different from everybody else.

Suffolk Overheard:  In the Long Stratton Co-op

  Grandmother: What about a melon?

  Little Girl: I don't eat anything green.

  Grandmother: It's only green on the outside.

Throwback Thursday: 12 years ago today we took the tax disc off nearthecoast's press car.

10:00-12:00pm Saturday a coffee morning in St Michael's Framlingham featuring Amazing cakes.

Saturday is the penultimate Saturday Laxfield Community Market of the year.

7pm for 7:30pm Friday a quiz in Dennington village hall in memory of Mat Bayfield.  Teams of up to six at £5 per person, email bayfieldfootball@gmail.com to book a table.

The Flipside Festival returns Saturday and like last year it's in the Old Theatre Framlingham.

Sticks & Stones at the Atelier Gallery Leiston is the creative histories of three sculptors with a talk by the artists Saturday week.

If you're driving on the A12 it's CLOSED between Marks Tey and Hatfield Peverel until the Friday after next.

♫ The Fressingfield Chapel Hall Arts is in itself a venue worth visiting and it's where Fressingfield Sounds are hosting their monthly concerts.  Saturday week the Piatti String Quartet will play Mendelssohn,.Purcell and Dvořák's American. ♫

www.cultureeditsuffolk.com is a new not for profit guide to Suffolk's independent arts including music, exhibitions, readings, performances and community arts.  It's free to list for creators, venues and events and we've already found browsing rewarding.

♫ Next month's Fram Concert players are Clélia Iruzun and Shelley Levy with a programme including Brahms and Schumann for their clarinet and piano duo. ♫

The Framlingham Co-op's new and very likely unnecessarily complicated car park charging is having problems.

Trailer for the new Sense and Sensibility seems to start with Wells Fargo arriving.

Pity that Jessica Fostekew's Sturdy Girl Club on Radio 4 doesn't include women's American football.

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 year moves on, today is the autumnal equinox.  The next year moving on marker are the clocks going back Sunday 25 October.

Can't remember honest Aldeburgh folk being noted for enjoying a laugh but the third weekend in October is the second Aldeburgh Comedy Festival.  We've heard of and like all of the acts though a teensy bit vague about Dane Sofie Hagen.