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sa 18 Nov 2023	On what would have been Benjamin Britten's 110th birthday this Wednesday his Aldeburgh home the Red House will be open with guided tours. A free day out including cake but you do need to book. When we visited we particularly enjoyed the garden.
tu 20 Jun 2023	Around 00:40 in this BBC vid kitten biscuits meat flavoured, not fish flavoured are recommended for hedgehogs. Here in Stately Terrace Framlingham the piggies happily tuck into herring and tuna with vegetables GoCat ... perhaps they're an Aldeburgh fishing community displaced by the high property prices.
fr 21 Apr 2023	♫ Last night in the Snape Maltings we fell in l♥ve with mezzo Margo Arsane playing Pompey's son Sesto ... she's petite ... and French. We did our best to keep up with the plot but occasionally just let it wash over us. Perhaps we missed it but at the curtain call the Aldeburgh Voices who sang from the audience weren't acknowledged. A much larger cast for tomorrow night a Rossini comedy.
tu 7 Mar 2023	In prehistoric times when the Campsea Ashe pub was still The Talbot it briefly had a boule pitch at the side and there were attempts in Aldeburgh to get a team going. Brandeston has a petanque team for this year's summer league and needs more players. Email Joanna Moorman for more info.
sa 28 Jan 2023	The Lighthouse Restaurant Aldeburgh re-opens for the season Wednesday. •
tu 17 Jan 2023	♫ In a faint echo of Musicircus that we enjoyably stumbled across on the Aldeburgh front some years back this year's festival has a Britten Song Trail. Five venues including halls Jubilee and Moot and the Fishers Gin Tasting Room.
fr 14 Oct 2022	♫ We l♥ve the four dancers making increasingly sluttier attempts to get the prince's interest in our 54th reason to be cheerful. When we saw it 'live' at Aldeburgh cinema the man sitting next to us cried out Bravo!
tu 11 Oct 2022	♫ Aldeburgh Cinema has moved live opera from the NY Metropolitan to the Royal Opera House starting we thought with Madam Butterfly but it now seems to be Aida 6:45pm Wednesday 12 October ... that's tomorrow.
mo 1 Aug 2022	Supporter art dog has curated the show at Ballroom Arts Aldeburgh this week. Here's how you can join our supporters.
su 17 Jul 2022	♫ Sounds delightful, Tuesday week the St Elizabeth Hospice will serve afternoon tea in the Red House Aldeburgh rose garden with croquet, garden tours and light summer music. We strongly suspect you will need to book.
tu 12 Jul 2022	A woman driving out of the Tesco Express car park *Aldeburgh* last Friday 8 July around 12:15-12:40pm saw a man performing an indecent act in his car. He is described as mixed race, mid 30s with short black hair and a trimmed black beard and wearing a light-coloured t-shirt. His car was a dark blue saloon. If you can help, please contact Suffolk Police quoting crime reference 37/43037/22, you can call 101.
su 12 Jun 2022	This year the Aldeburgh Festival has some innovative programming, a cycle sportive on the nineteenth and 2-3 July watch big screen Wimbledon on the Red House lawn ... although their web site doesn't seem to know about it last time we looked.
tu 31 May 2022	Just after midnight this morning a man living next door to the White Hart Aldeburgh was watching tv when three men wearing balaclavas burst in and assaulted him. Nothing was stolen but the victim needed hospital treatment. Any info contact police quoting ref 37/33341/22, you can call 101.
fr 29 Apr 2022	Booking started the week before last for the Aldeburgh Festival's fringe at The Pumphouse. Intriguing to us is Dr Lucie's Silent Disco and Lounge headphones provided.
tu 12 Apr 2022	Booking starts Thursday for the Aldeburgh Festival's 'fringe' at The Pumphouse. Intriguing to us is Dr Lucie's Silent Disco and Lounge headphones provided.
tu 5 Apr 2022	Aldeburgh Cinema has a new sound system which will hopefully improve the spatial imaging. Hopefully they will also refrain from pounding bass unlike some others ... it's a cinema not a disco.
sa 26 Mar 2022	Last Thursday the 24th between 12:30-1:15pm a small blue leather clutch bag containing jewellery, a mobile phone and bank cards was stolen from a pram's bottom shelf while the victim was sitting outside in the High Street Aldeburgh. Any info contact Suffolk Police quoting crime ref 37/17763/22, you can call 101.
tu 22 Mar 2022	WANTED next month a man with a van for a move Brandeston to Aldeburgh, we'll forward your email.
su 6 Mar 2022	The show this week at the Aldeburgh Gallery is the very appropriate Between Earth and Sky.
we 16 Feb 2022	Some editing and merging has created/updated Aldeburgh in 2016-12 and near the coast 2017-14.
su 30 Jan 2022	Once upon a time parking in Aldeburgh High Street was in the middle of the road and there seems little (perhaps no) evidence that James Tiberius Kirk (before changing his middle name by deed poll) was born in Enterprise House Wentworth Road.
we 29 Dec 2021	Some editing and merging has created/updated Aldeburgh in 2016-12 and near the coast 2017-14.
mo 27 Dec 2021	In Aldeburgh Cinema Christmas Eve some of the audience applauded the Spielberg West Side Story (worth seeing despite an opening where the camera is so mobile it could induce nausea) and the bigger Co-op has an electric car charging point.
ssu 12 Dec 2021	HighTide have run arts festivals in Halesworth and Aldeburgh. They return to both towns early next year with the new play When The Long Trick's Over.
sa 11 Dec 2021	Over Christmas for two weeks Aldeburgh Cinema is showing the Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story, we l♥ved the original. Rita Moreno who played Anita in the 1961 film co-produced this remake and poignant that Steven Sondheim who wrote the original lyrics died yesterday. ♫
th 29 Jul 2021	Starting today and until Wednesday next week ArtDog are showing at the Aldeburgh Gallery the four artists Iain Nutting, Tobias Ford, Dide and Meryem Siemmond as Elemental A part of nature, not apart from nature.
fr 2 Jul 2021	Aldeburgh benefits from a dog boutique called Wag and Bone, part of the A1214 in Ipswich (we think of it as Ipswich's North Circular) has plastic poles separating the cycle lane from the cars and EACH's Bubble Rush in Norwich tomorrow is sold out.
th 20 May 2021	Starting today with Ben Wardle the Aldeburgh Gallery has changing weekly shows from artists including Derek Chambers, Sophie Elinor Martin, Richard Ward and photographer Ian Ward.
fr 19 Feb 2021	The first lockdown last year started on the very day we were planning to see Emma. at the Cinema ... hopefully Emma. will return and do you think Miranda Hart as Miss Bates will fall over?
tu 22 Dec 2020	Oh poo! The Aldeburgh Cinema has closed for the time being and we were looking forward to It's A Wonderful Life on a BIG screen.
sa 28 Nov 2020	Oh joy! The Aldeburgh Cinema re-opens the Wednesday after next and we're going to book The Nutcracker (ballet not porn) and possibly this new Christmas Carol.
su 1 Nov 2020	Early evening trick or treaters out in Aldeburgh last night, grown ups with small children in costume.
th 22 Oct 2020	The Aldeburgh Gallery has started it's winter season with works by Joanne Aylward and Debbie George.
th 1 Oct 2020	Aldeburgh Cinema is having a third Wardrobe Sale this weekend. Email michele@aldeburghcinema.co.uk for an appointment.
sa 19 Sep 2020	We're torn ... Wednesday's three o'clock matinée in Aldeburgh is feature doc My Rembrandt whilst in the evening at the Halesworth Cut it's Palme d'Or and multi Oscar winning satirical thriller Parasite.
th 10Sep 2020	The late Jenny Simpson was a great Aldeburgh Cinema supporter. Her wardrobe was really good quality, lovely and elegant. Much of the wardrobe including brand new shoes and clothes still with the labels on has been donated to the cinema and available to buy this weekend.
we 22 Jul 2020	Excellent! Aldeburgh Cinema re-opens Saturday with West Side Story and social distancing. Hopefully they'll be programming Emma again which we missed by one day because the lockdown started:(
we 15 Jul 2020	Craig Brown is a humourist who's had a Radio 4 series and directed the Aldeburgh Documentary Film Festival. Tomorrow night the Halesworth Cut is hosting a Zoom Q&A with Craig about his latest book One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time. ♫
fr 12 Jun 2020	Tonight the virtual Aldeburgh Festival starts with Benjamin Britten on Camera on BBC4. We once heard Britten described in what was then the Campsea Ashe Dog and Duck as That famous writer or something.
th 2 Apr 2020	Yesterday afternoon a body was found in an Aldeburgh house and in the evening there was an armed robbery at the Fressingfield Mace Store.
we 18 Mar 2020	Aldeburgh Cinema has closed for the duration so we won't get to see Emma this afternoon but the Woodbridge Riverside seems to be partially functioning. The Red Rooster festival near Thetford has been postponed to September and Life Arts have postponed April's Woodbridge festival to next year. All Snape Maltings music events cancelled until the end of April (we were lucky), the Phoenix Singers concert in Framlingham next month cancelled as is the Campsea Ashe Spring Fayre this Saturday and still only three virus cases in Suffolk.
fr 14 Feb 2020	We have visited (after an hiccup) Benjamin Britten's Red House just outside Aldeburgh and it's a beautiful location at the end of an unmade road. The Red House is looking for volunteers and the garden alone would be an attraction. *Email:* volunteering@brittenpears.org *Tel:* 01728 451700
th 13 Feb 2020	The Are We Good Ancestors? show at the Aldeburgh Gallery opens today and runs until Wednesday the 19th.

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