earlier in Brandeston

 JOB  The Brandeston Queen is looking for a FOH Supervisor, £24,000p/a + £4k bonus, 40 hour week, paid overtime and could include accommodation.

From 6pm tonight in Carols on the Verge with Father Christmas plus fireworks on the playing field afterwards.

During this lock down the Queens' shop is open with panettone, amoretti biscuits and panforte .. we know what two of them are:)

This unusually marked tabby tom has been missing from Mutton Lane for a month.  Any sightings or info please email Lou Paget on louloupaget@gmail.com

Jane is reluctantly leaving the village and so is having a massive BARN SALE this weekend.  Items include a small hen house, garden furniture and ornaments, Tilly Tuk Tuk, fencing, a gazebo, bikes, a single bed, hand, garden and electric tools, cylinder mower and more.  Email janelaztdayz@gmail for an appointment.

The Queen is much in need of courgettes this long weekend, call Rebekah on 01728 685307 if you can help.

Blimey!  The Fete the Saturday before last made £4,936 which along with a village feast, an open gardens and the Kettleburgh Fete earlier in June raised over £10,000 ... thanks Darryl.

A very social long weekend coming up .  It starts tomorrow at The Queen to celebrate Suffolk Day with in the evening ♫The Harbour Lights♫ and concludes Sunday with a Brunch and the fine country rock voice of Man in the Hat. ♫

Last weekend a bunch of barn and outbuilding burglaries in Brandeston with the stolen items including chainsaws, hedge trimmers and strimmers.

Last Sunday we went to Bridge Farm Brandeston (seemed rather more Cretingham than Brandeston to us) for Arabella Marshall's open studio.  To call Bridge Farm an industrial unit is a complete misnomer as it's a rural idyll (we drove past it the first time) of small businesses including a carpenter, fitted kitchens, shepherd's huts and last weekend a pop up cafe from Henrietta Inman.

Brandeston summer fete 2:30pm this afternoon at the Queen's and that Framlingham sitcom (no, not the council) will be broadcast in October on BBC4.

Throwback Thursday:  Five years ago today we reported Brandeston Hall pupil Suzie Reid retaining her Suffolk county cross country title.

The Brandeston Queen's wants you to know they are on Twitter, you can buy their chutneys in Leo's Deli Framlingham, Grange Farm Shop Hasketon and Procter's Sausages in The Walk Ipswich, and they are looking for a sous chef or chef de partie.

Saturday's Brandeston village fete raised £4,900.

Chef wanted (experienced or otherwise) at the Brandeston Queens Head.

Two new artists (including painter Cyndi Speer) for the collective who showed at Brandeston in February and now showing at the Snape Malting's Pond Gallery until Wednesday.  Their next show is 20-22 August at the Stratford St Andrew Riverside Centre.

For those with binoculars the Brandeston village fete will be 19th June, might start at 2:30pm and is definitely having a beer festival.

Ex-Bonzo and the seventh Python Neil Innes played Brandeston village hall last night reportedly trying out material for North America.

We arrived a little early at Brandeston village hall, a very attractive airy space but invisible from the road in last night's pitch black, as setting up was just finishing.  A

good crowd soon arrived for the private view of photography and art, we particularly like the paintings to the right as you enter the hall ... yeah, a proper journalist would have got the artist's name.  The show continues all this weekend.