Life Skills 26:  We first drank a Rombouts drip coffee at the charming Geffrye Museum in East London; it came with a matching cup and biscuit instantly besotting us.  As the popularity spread inexperienced staff (which seemed to be most of them) would overfill the dripper leaving the drinker to deal with an overflowing cup.  We bought our first drippers certainly for decades and found them sadly gutless, using two improved the situation a bit.

Sunday fortnight a charity fair in the Hasketon Victory Hall, a quid to get in but that does include refreshments.

We shall be visiting ArtDog London tomorrow week at the Campsea Ashe Station House partly because we've been told the venue's makeover is impressive.

Next available ad slot above and in the twice(ish) monthly digest is 9th December.  Tell near the coast about yourself with £11.95 for two months ... explained here.

We saw RoughCast Theatre's very excellent A Midsummer Night's Dream this summer and not least of all it looked brilliant.  Their next show is the black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace with an open read through/informal casting at the Wingfield Barns 7:30pm Wednesday 20 November.

Political discussion on the Fen Meadow Framlingham ... well it is Suffolk.

Apologies for mentioning Christmas but Brundish has got it's festive diary sorted starting with An Advent Cantata last Sunday in November.

In association with Poetry in Aldeburgh 8-10 November three women artists Perienne Christian, Alice-Andrea Ewing and Tessa Newcomb are showing at the Peter Pears Gallery as Purslane, Peas & Bladderwrack ... no we don't know what Purslane is either.

The route for today's Framlingham Flyers cross country went round the mere and was suitably muddy.

Though still seven weeks away Christmas looms and you've already missed last posting international economy for Australia and lots of other countries.  TODAY is last posting for Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta and Turkey.

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Canadian actress Shea  Wojtus has joined Framlingham Ladies.

We have friends who were living down an unmade road between Dennington and Stradbroke.  Their dish washer overheated and filled the house with thick smoke.  They heard the fire engine siren approach the end of the road ... and then go away.  The what3words app would have helped.  It divides the world into a grid of three metre squares and assigns each a unique three word address.  We hadn't worked out even a modest house will have more than one address.

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

In the Woodbridge Thoroughfare after 25 years the Leather and Sheepskin Shop closed in the spring, the Firestation Cafe also closed but more recently and the new to us New Street Market looks very attractive and appears to contain an outpost of the Pump Street Bakery ... they do have a fan club.