mo 4 Sep
2023 |  As always an impressive turn out for yesterday's Framlingham Flyers 10k on a muggy morning that made the Market Hill water station even more essential. New to us were minimalist sports waistcoats favoured by some.
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su 3 Nov
2019 | The route for today's Framlingham Flyers cross country went round the mere and was suitably muddy. |
su 1 Sep
2019 |  For today's Framlingham Flyers 10k the start moved from the usual New Road to outside The Crown on the Market Hill. By the time the race had got to the right turn into Castle Street Fram Flyer Andrew Rooke had already put distance between himself and the bunch, not surprisingly he went on to win. We were impressed by Andrew's veteran team mate Adam Howlett's fourth place and as always the cheerful endeavour of the back markers.
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mo 11 Mar
2019 |  This year's Women's Tour of Britain will again visit Framlingham but this year it starts in Beccles and ends in Stowmarket.
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mo 14 Jan
2019 | We've added Swiss national road race cycling champion Nicole Hanselmman to Ladies in Framlingham. |
su 9 Dec
2018 | This morning in the Tommy Mills sports hall Framlingham in front of a very supportive and appreciative audience The Little Mermaid whizzed about on off ice skates. One of the many very young cast members had to be taken to the toilet during the show but like we said before nobody fell over. Such an opportunity for the young to learn self confidence ... hope there'll be another show soon. |
th 22 Nov
2018
 | Last Sunday we were surprised that that sports hall men's changing room at Tommy Mills had one toilet, two hand wash basins but no showers. The Brewer's Hertfordshire comprehensive half a century ago had showers ... |
su 18 Nov
2018 |  The skaters at the rehearsal of The Little Mermaid in the Tommy Mills Framlingham's sports hall today were wearing off ice skates, they look like inline skates but the four wheels are mounted in a curve so only two wheels touch the floor making spins and turns easier. At the rehearsals nobody fell over (which is more than you can say for the Winter Olympics:), some impressive grown up skating and spectacular lighting. You can see the show next month ... we'll be there.
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th 14 Jun
2018 |  In the manner of a roller derby programme that so relentlessly refuses to identify mixed league team skaters' home league the Women's Tour web site fails to identify national champions and the web generally is surprisingly reticent ... and what's more nowhere like the predicted 5,000 in Framlingham yesterday. But still the riders tended to be friendly if sometimes understandably a little ill at ease and we had a lovely time as did the Bobby Hitcham kids plus we got to see bar manager Adam on telly leaning out of a Station window.
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mo 21 May
2018 |  At yesterday's soapboxing St Johners Sally and Chris were sitting in the shade of the Framlingham Bookshop's awning but despite that they'd been asked for the toilets three times. Leaving their chairs we asked Sally Can we sit in your chair? Yes. Can we tell people where the toilets are? No, you haven't been trained.
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sa 9 Sep
2017 | As predicted the Tour of Britain flashed through near the coast yesterday but perhaps the helicopter got lost? It only seemed to turn up as the peloton was leaving Framlingham. |
we 5 Jul
2017
Dunwich Dynamo |  Next Saturday/Sunday night the 25th Dunwich Dynamo will be passing through near the coast. This year the Gentleman Plumber will not be popping up his cafe near the Framlingham water tower but may be back next year.
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mo 31 Oct
2016
 | Untypically virtually no mud for yesterday's Framlingham Flyers cross country. 
Enormous fields for all three events and we continue to be admiring of the perseverance of both the also rans and the marshals who clap and encourage what becomes once runners are lapped a continuous crocodile. |
sa 28 May
2016
Friday 5 |  In Pageant Place last night 350 runners for the Framlingham Flyers 5k get last minute instructions:
Race Director: There's no road closure so keep to the left, anyone seen on the right will be disqualified. 350 Runners: <sarcastically> Ooooooh Race Director: Because of the traffic anyone with an iPod or mp3 player will be disqualified. 350 Runners: <sarcastically and louder> OOOOOOH |
tu 16 Jun
2015 |  Getting a poke of chips yesterday in Framlingham's chippie Rumbles we saw a poster for next month's Ipswich roller derby and we didn't put it there ... We Are Not Alone!
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sa 30 May
2015 | .jpg "Framlingham College wicket prep") Last week on a Framlingham College playing field two groundsmen mowed the cricket wicket twice, then used a powered broom to brush the grass so it stood up again, mowed it a third time and then rolled it ... there's a cricket match tomorrow.
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mo 1 Sep
2014 |  Pleasant weather and a fully subscribed entry for yesterday's Framlingham Flyers 10k kept the water station busy. No para-athlete this year, he's concentrating on the track apparently. To our retrospective embarrassment we snapped the last runner's companion not the last runner despite marshals twice telling us She's the one in black.
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su 8 Dec
2013 | .jpg "FREE ladies' bike in Framlingham") 11:25am: FREE ladies' bike in Victoria Mill Road Framlingham needs tlc and good home ...
10:00pm: ... well that took a while but it's gone now. |
th 12 Sep
2013 |  No soapboxing this year on Framingham's Market Hill but equally entertaining off road soapboxing quite a ways down New Road on land we hadn't realised was the college's. Encouraging to see how many drivers were young women and young women drivers clearly enjoying themselves. PCSO Christian Hassler's radar gun showed top speeds around 20 mph and the only dodgy bit for us was on a course that only turned left inside line at the start was determined by who barged their way there first. Great stuff and again next year please.
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