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Congrats to Earl Soham Brewery whose Albert a traditional best bitter with delicate bitterness from the British Fuggles hops and a delicious balance of malt and hop character won gold twice at the SIBA East Independent Beer Awards.  ESB's Sir Roger's Porter did well too winning double silvers.

♫ Saturday week 6th October the Suffolk Singers present A Harvest of Song at St Michael's Framlingham.

Now would be a good time to make us your home page.

To link to one of our internal header pages the syntax is always all lower case with no dashes or underscores; so Framlingham is www.nearthecoast.com/framlingham.

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

Yesterday the Framlingham library car park impressively had no parked cars.  It did have a land girl, military vehicles, motorbikes and lots of other stuff to launch John Bridges new book A Suffolk Town in Wartime - Framlingham 1939 to 1945.  We were told there had been a queue all morning for signed copies.

♫ The Blaxhall Ship has a very honorable folk music history.  FolkEast are continuing the tradition with Friday night concerts in the village hall.  Next month the second concert of season starts on the 12th with the Melrose Quartet.

♫ Afraid we don't get the enthusiasm for tribute bands so somewhat surprised we found ourselves being nostalgic for the Spice Girls (our SG favourite was Slapper Spice).  Musical Wannabe - The Spice Girls Show at the Lowestoft Marina on the 28th.

Useful keyboard shortcut is Windows + E which pops up file explorer with Frequent folders and Recent files ... go on, try it.

The seventh Shuck Festival in Woodbridge today and tomorrow and a bit windy in Framlingham yesterday.

♫ This is really really regrettable, no more Stradisphere ... ah, no more Stradisphere run by creator Brett Baber but if someone takes it over ....

Tonight is the penultimate in a a four day run by the Deben Players of the musical comedy Nunsense at the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge.  The Convent of Little Sisters of Hoboken present wonderful songs and madcap dance routines.

Outrageous to be thinking about Christmas in September but if you need to post pressies by surface mail/International Economy to Australia, New Zealand or lots of other non-European destinations they need to be posted by next Friday.

Belated congrats to Norfolk Brawds who were promoted to Tier 1 at last weekend's roller derby British Championships (started as the End of the World Series then transmogrified into the Heartland Series).

Sunday will be the autumnal equinox, sorry to be a downer but winter approaches.

♫ Be inspired by martial trumpets and drums, the 'airy violin', the 'amorous flute' and the wondrous organ!  The East Anglian Academy of Early Music's concert Hail! Bright Cecilia tomorrow week in St Michael's Framlingham includes guest Kings Singers newbie Edward Button.

Why are there so few baskets in the Framlingham Coop?  Did they give some to a poor supermarket that had none?

Worried too many people might turn up at your coffee morning?  Garden fete?  Swingers' party?  Don't do promotion on nearthecoast then.

Next month Common Ground Theatre tour The Mariner (A musical adaptation of ...) around East Anglia with female community choirs.  For this tour East Anglia takes in Chipping Ongar once one end of the Central Line.  CG follow on with The Scarlet Pipistrelle for Christmas.

The Halesworth Arts Festival returns for the 17th time in the middle of next month and as always the programme is intriguingly entertaining.  Opera-lele return, silent film The Cat and the Canary with live drums and piano, poet Roger McGough and closes with a James Bond concert hosted by the divine Madeline Smith.

Those bigger garden wheelie bins (they're green) we were going to get in August?  It's October/November now.

Past astonishers have their own page.

 JOB  Laundry Assistant wanted in Framlingham, there are 23 bullet points in the job description but no mention of the sordid matter of coin.

♫ Friday 12th October Peppery Productions present (we think for possibly the second time) Hank Wangford and the Lost Cowboys (including BJ Cole and Spanner Robinson) at the Manor Ballroom Ipswich.

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