ntc digest - a House Sales one

New house sales around near the coast including Framlingham, Laxfield and Woodbridge.  Crikey!  It's been a year since our last one <blush>.

The Thorpeness Regatta today and with fireworks tomorrow.

Sunday 21 Sep and afternoon Haiku and Drawing Walk from Dunwich Heath to the ruined Minsmere Chapel with it's glasswork A Wing and a Prayer.  Hosted by artist Arabella Marshall and writers Tamar Youseff and Suzanne Bartlett you need to book by emailing Suzanne.

Really wish we'd stumbled across this so much earlier.  Keyboard shortcut Windows key + V pops up the Clipboard with copies going back a good hatful.  Click on a list entry to paste it and there's a perhaps overly discrete scroll bar on the right.

Yesterday evening 9:40-9:50pm an Airdrop jumps bike with black frame and silver forks, seat post and hubs was stolen from Crag Path Aldeburgh.  Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/46836/25 or call 101.

Golf Whiskey Tango a posh boy's country weekend.

Wordle seems to have started using an extended dictionary; Kefir?!, Atria (the plural of Atrium apparently), Knell and yesterday Matte.

♫ The midweek afternoon Framlingham Concerts return next month with Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins Four hands on one piano.  October's concert is pianist Maiko Mori on YouTube impressively playing Rachmaninoff from memory ... tickets here.

With the appearance of a map of the  near the coast heartland visit on Tuesday 2 September trying to find the route of this year's men's Tour of Britain has become less like playing battleships plus it's on the telly.

The newly formed more Internet being some 10 years old is now little more than an historical document but the tip about daytime power cuts still works and maybe the tip about ebay above it.

Suffolk Overheard: (In the Angry Fly)

(The Major) She does so much for the town ... whether it wants it or not.

(Pub Bore) and surrounding villages too ... whether they want it or not.

Roughcast Theatre are still looking for backstage crew for lighting, sound etc.  Tech is easier to master than you might think so email them.

gridiron uk has become the slightly less clunky Britball 

SHAKE's stage adaptation of Akenfield with a local cast will be previewing nine shows around near the coast next month starting with two nights in The Old Theatre Fram.

The village doesn't support you?  Promote yourself on nearthecoast.

Common Ground's pre-Christmas tour of The Tales Our Mother Told! by Pat Whymark starts in October and includes Campsea Ashe, Laxfield and Fram.

Regretting that we missed the Middy's line extension opening.

Our Alamy stock photo portfolio is now over 10,000 images.

17-year-old Maria has been missing from the Framlingham area since 9:20am yesterday.  Approx 5ft 4ins tall, of slight build and with very long black hair Maria was wearing a pink t-shirt, blue jeans and black fluffy sliders and has links to Ipswich.   Police are concerned for Maria’s welfare and any info contact Suffolk police via their web site or call 101.

The Sudbourne Printmakers draw for the donated Maggi Hambling painting raised £4,195.88 so the three antique presses are now permanent residents.

Desperate to fill the daytime tv schedules programmers are mining further and further back though we have yet to see Hill Street Blues or Ally McBeal.

Women's' American football in the 20teens and mostly East Anglia.

This year's Flipside Festival returns to Framlingham next month with guests including journalists Melissa Benn and Laura Cumming and the author Philip Hoare.  Volunteers wanted to help for half a day and enjoy the festival the other half.