Debenham

The Stradbroke Jazz Festival has had a break but it returns tomorrow and in Debenham.  Entertaining again are the delicious Nicola Farnon and her musicians (she's Robert Farnon's great niece). ♫

♫ A fine concert last night from the Suffolk Singers in the Debenham Leisure Centre.  The choir has a healthy number of male voices giving the sound weight and some of the arrangements were an entertainment in themselves.  The show along with cake sale and raffle raised funds for Age UK.

Before satnavs and in north Essex we stopped to ask the way and were told Go straight on at the T-junction ... how very Suffolk we thought.  This diversion is in Debenham, pic by Tony Hutt.

♫ Saturday night we picked our way through the flooded roads to Crow's Hall Debenham for a black tie concert performance of The Barber of Seville and how glad we are we did.  Crow's Hall is exquisite and the singers of London Festival Opera were joyful plus occasional gigantic overhead thunderclaps gave opportunity for impromptu humour from the stage.

Mr and Mrs Hugh Creighton have lived in Lacey Cottage on that nasty corner in Earl Soham for 26 years.  Hugh has been and then not been a parish councilor.  They have raised three daughters, seen the Falcon, Thorolds the corner shop and the post office (after over a century) close, Tastebuds open become Eat Anglia and then close, and Earl Soham Brewery move from Maurices's chicken shed to the garage and then to Debenham.  We're surprised there hasn't been more change in 26 years ... at the end of the month they move to the south coast.

There's an area bounded by Wickham Market, Debenham and Halesworth known near the coast as the Wickden Triangle within which either something in the water or incipient dementia prompts bizarre council behaviour such as this sign in the Stackton Tressel Crack Street car park.

Saturday 10-1pm it's free entry to Baby and Children's BIG second hand SALE at Debenham Community Centre.

Having lost their Debenham venue the Debenham Players will be presenting eight one act plays at Robert Hitcham's Framlingham Friday and Saturday night.

The Earl Soham Brewery is moving to the Debenham Bloomfield Industrial Estate and right by the entrance are the breweries' (Cliff Quay are joining them) offices and what will be a very attractive shop.

The Debenham Players' three day run of Calendar Girls continues until tomorrow and your ticket includes cheese, wine and pud ... apparently the programme is a bit special too.

What an nice change to have some half way decent weather yesterday for Mouth to Mouth's production of the musical Godspell in the Debenham Angel's garden.  As

always quirky, original and highly entertaining we were particularly pleased to see a ukulele move from the pit to centre stage.  Mouth to Mouth's garden tour continues this coming weekend at Hoxne, Framlingham, Orford and Laxfield.

Police Direct reporting flooded roads around Bredfield, Debenham, Helmingham, Melton, Otley, Stowmarket and Woodbridge ... bad enough that Victoria from the Framlingham Bookshop gave up try to get from Stowupland to Fram this morning.

The Saxmundham IT Club was formed in February and has members from Framlingham, Leiston and Debenham, newbies always welcome.