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It's taken us quite a while to discover the missing Likes button on X nee Twitter that used to be next to Reposts.  It has moved under the History tab on the left, just click History.

This week we put an elderly laptop plus bits on top of the blue lidded wheelie bin for the small electricals collection ... the bin men didn't take them.  The collection has been temporarily suspended since April because of a fire at the Thetford Recycling Centre ... April ... that's six months ago, the temporary traffic lights were in Fairfield Road Framlingham for two years.

♫ Yesterday Clélia Iruzun and Shelley Levy in St Michael's Framlingham closed their recital with the new to us Messager's Solo de Concourse which has clarinet parts so frenetic we feared for Shelley's fingers.  The next Fram Concert is pianist Jill Crossland 18 November. ♫

In 2010 the Beeb was going to close 6 Music but didn't.  In 2020 they were going to close the red button text service but didn't.  Now they are going to close Radio 4 Extra née Radio 7.  Spoken word radio is such a delicate flower it really needs protecting.

That crept up on us, the clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday.

Sunday motorcycle trials at Blaxhall.

Five months of road works around Martlesham but as nobody much including parish or county councils feels the need for a map we don't really know where.

An Earl Soham business was broken into late Saturday night and a red and black Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle reg A O02 TEU wheeled to a white van.  Any info contact police quoting crime reference 37/61540/26, you can call 101.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will give you that nice warm feeling of having done the right thing.

At the George Farnham Gallery in Sax Lupe Cunha's Seeking the Colour continues to run until Saturday.

London Fields is the East London park where the Dunwich Dynamo starts, this could make it more interesting.

Hitchcock's North by North West is on the Beeb's iPlayer, we've always thought the bus stop in the middle of nowhere ... a bit Suffolk.

The Presence of Snowgood is a modern day horror starring Hammer Horror queen and Talking Pictures' The Cellar Club presenter Caroline Munro, see it at Dennington village hall Friday after next.

Police are asking motorists in the area at the time of the fatality on the Orwell Bridge to review any dashcam footage.  Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting 37/61160/26, you can call 101.

♫ The Fressingfield Chapel Hall Arts is in itself a venue worth visiting and it's also where Fressingfield Sounds are hosting their monthly concerts.  Next month the programme of Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin and Huw Watkins piano includes Spiegel im Spiegel. ♫

#FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?

Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

Throwback Thursday: 14 years ago today we visited Valerie Leverett Memorials in Farnham.  They were on that tiny industrial estate by the A12's 90 degree turn in the village... both the business and estate are gone.

You can always tell which of the woodpigeons on your lawn is the Brexiteer, it's the one so busy bullying the others it gets to eat less bird seed.

♫ The Phoenix Singers will be 50 this year and celebrating with a December concert of Purcell. Bach, Mozart and Pittoni.  What's more they have a new musical director the acclaimed singer and conductor Tom Appleton. ♫

Suffolk Overheard: I feel sorry for people but they don't feel sorry for me.

The Queen's description of Jeffrey Archer as irrepressible and not without flaw rings like the working class lovable rogue who is usually an annoying little shit with criminal tendencies.

Astonisher No.71: After Hitler's 1938 invasion of Austria (the Anschluss) Austrian Jews immediately suffered violent repression.  In time Sigmund Freud the founder of psychoanalysis understandably wanted to flee to the UK but the UK like other European countries was not issuing visas to Jews.  Fellow psychoanalyst Earnest Jones was in the same ice skating club as the home secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and Jones persuade Hoare to issue Freud a visa ... no, you couldn't make it up ... same ice skating club?!

Santa's red hatted head is already popping up; breakfast with Santa at the Snape Maltings and steam train rides at the Wetheringsett Middy.

Launch party last weekend on Sizewell beach of the mobile wood fired Sizewell Sea Sauna which starts regular weekend service this weekend.

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

Ruby Tyger 2 opening next month on Saxmundham High Street.