Framlingham

Activity today at what was John Grose née Potters Framlingham (it's been empty approaching three years).  Three men at the front in discussion, one with a clip board and one in hiviz who'd been up a ladder earlier.

As always there was a lot of queueing at yesterday's Sausage Festival in Framlingham.  We were impressed by a wide one going from well into Crown and Anchor Alley and out into Fore Street.

7:30pm tomorrow at the very pleasant Brockdish Kings Head RoughCast Theatre will be reading the the Moliere comedy School for Wives.  Remembering how well a French farce went in a Framlingham garden Moliere instead of Shakespeare for the company's summer tour seems a plan.

Driving from Framlingham to Woodbridge this afternoon there were four sets of temporary traffic lights.  In Woodbridge there are two new to us traffic islands on Melton Road, in the Co-op some staff are wearing body cameras, the Cross Quays pub reopened in the late 90s after decades closed and is closed again plus for sale, surprisingly estate agencies seem to be the growth industry.

We have created a Facebook album of Framlingham postcards from the last century.  Our most recent update is paper ephemera including White Lodge on the Saxtead Road for sale by auction in 1957 and in 1937 dancing in Church Street until two in the morning.

Nowadays spices in most supermarkets (even the big one at Martlesham) only come in those little glass tubes ... but Cupboard Love on Framlingham market has them loose including the ground coriander we wanted, just bring a jar.

People will always be interested in house prices.  Our latest update includes Framlingham, Laxfield, Melton, Peasenhall and Saxmundham.

The Framlingham Castle Inn has renamed itself The Two Brewers and there are parking restrictions in Church Street ... Detectorists eh?

Last night a party including actors Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones were dining in the Framlingham Station's back room ... there's a one off 75mins Detectorists special coming.

Life's difficult times like illness especially a stay in hospital have hidden costs.  Charity the Framlingham Pryke Trust can make a grant to those needing a little help, applications are strictly confidential.

We reckon if the pandemic hadn't intervened Sunday fortnight would have been the seventh Fred's Memorial Motorcycle Run.  As in 2015 assemble in the Elms Car Park Framlingham.

Over the weekend between 11pm Saturday and 8am Sunday a grey Range Rover Vogue FM15 CCX was stolen from Apsey Green near Framlingham.  If have any info please contact Suffolk police quoting ref 37/50539/22, you can call 101.

The multiple sirens passing through Framlingham last night were part of sixteen appliances attending a field fire by Tannington Long Road near Crown Corner Brundish which, see 8093 on the incident map.

Artist Graham Giles' show A Unique Sense of Place at the Old Theatre Framlingham starts today and runs until next Saturday 6 August.

Danish racing cyclist Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig does take a nice photo, here she is in Church Street Framlingham.  Pleasing that yesterday she won the third stage of Le Tour Femmes seemingly coming from nowhere.

 JOB  Hatcher Components on the Woodbridge Road as you enter Framlingham are recruiting an apprentice Computer Aided Design techy.

♫ We enjoy the Framlingham Ladies Choir concerts, a specific sound quality with just female voices, intimate, free (a donation helps) and sociable afterwards with tea and tuck.  First concert since the pandemic next tomorrow the 15th at St Clare's Fram.

In George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara a character asks Who is this Lord Saxmundham?  Perhaps he's related to Lord Framlingham?

Peasenhall resident artist John Bawtree has previously stimulated much interest (and sales) at the Framlingham Carousel .  He's showing again at Carousel from today for two weeks.

In the end not enough people committed to Sign with Ali at Framlingham Library ... for it to happen but starting yesterday a six week British Sign Language course.

Yesterday in Victoria Mill Road Framlingham.

Things to do in Framlingham today include maypole dancing and Paul Anderson's photographic show Snaps in the Unitarian.