earlier in Halesworth

The closed Ipswich-Halesworth rail service should re-open today.

Laying new track will close the Ipswich-Halesworth rail service for nine days from this Saturday the 29th and the Ipswich-Felixstowe for the next two weekends.  Ipswich-Halesworth stations affected include Woodbridge, Wickham Market and Saxmundham, there will be replacement bus services for both lines.

FREE  kid's morning matinees at the Halesworth Cut, we're a bit late telling you about Trolls but you could still make The Secret Life of Pets, Finding Dory and The BFG.

A nice thing about the Halesworth Cut for a photographer is you can discretely move via the back of the seating from one side to the other.  Not any more though, on our last visit we discovered that the gap on the far side has gone in anticipation of new and reorganised seating this autumn.  Buy a little piece of immortality by sponsoring a seat.

Where's Elvis? and Hippy Jo in Halesworth and 2013, 2012 and 2011.

The beautifully elegant Buster Keaton in his feature length silent comedy The General (with live piano accompaniment from Tom Horton) at the Halesworth Cut tomorrow evening.

♫ In our uninformed way we suspected that 4 Girls 4 Harps (like the Ukulele Orchestra ... odd simile we know) would be one trick ponies but last night in the Halesworth Cut (like the Ukes) they proved us completely wrong.  The range of both the repertoire and the sound of the harps was way beyond the sound track to a dream sequence.  Encoring with the clog dance from La Fille Mal Gardée was just so right ... next Sunday concert the 26th of this month.

Halesworth Arts Festival director Matthew Wetmore has pointed out that though this is the sixth year of the Sunday Concerts it will be the sixteenth festival this autumn.  We strongly suspect that as always like a Michelin three star it will be worth making a special journey for.

Tina Bradshaw eastern life coach starts by serving audience members from a teapot special tea that turns out to be white wine ... it goes on from there.  Last night in the Halesworth Cut she was predominantly comic parody but affectionate and endearing parody with a little actual counselling, or perhaps rather more a group of friends talking with one of their number who had opened up a little.  She is a complete one off, catch her if you can.

♫ Next month the 15th Halesworth Arts Festival has another broad programme including opera, cabaret, classical, folk, jazz, choral, the man in the white suit and co-creator of Drop the Dead Donkey and the brilliant Outnumbered Andy Hamilton.

The first of the Halesworth Arts Festival's occasional Sunday concerts is next Sunday.  The comparatively youthful (they were formed in 2014) Fitzroy Quartet will give a programme of Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. ♫

 JOBS  As of today there seem to be care (mostly night) assistants wanted in Eye, Framlingham, Halesworth, Saxmundham and Woodbridge.

The Tramps in the the Halesworth Cut last night has moved on since we last saw it in the Eye bank, it now includes a running joke about Ed Sheeran with his lovely red hair and his lovely blue eyes.

We saw the Common Ground Theatre Company last year in the Halesworth Cut.  Since then principal Julian Harries has been the pub quiz master in an episode of Detectorists.  The company's Christmas show The Tinder Box is out on the road around near the coast with tonight the last at St Mary's Hall, Walton near Felixstowe.

Saturday we went to Halesworth to see Daddy Christmas arrive but had time to visit Hippy Jo in her shop of two years now.  Daddy C arrived by the simple process of walking out of the library and then processing along the Thoroughfare led by the very excellent Southwold and Reydon Drum Corp which as well as festive lighting had some real tinys.  Before all that there was a great moment when the two mascots spotted each other and embraced.

We've picked up three new faves on Flickr; Halloween in Aldeburgh, laptop on the line and our easily most viewed pic Hippy Jo.  You may remember Jo had a Fairtrade clothing stall on Framlingham, Saxmundham and possibly Woodbridge.

Today is the last day of the Halesworth scarecrow hunt.

♫ Despite the arts festival adding two front rows at the Halesworth Cut last night for Georgie Fame and sons it was still  SOLD OUT .  The festival continues tomorrow with drama A Day's Work and ends Sunday with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra.

A generator and power tools stolen from a Halesworth building site last week and an unemployed man has been charged for two burglaries in Melton Sunday night.

This year's Halesworth Arts Festival includes rock's smoothest Hammond botherer Georgie Fame now with sons, the actor Simon Callow plus the affectionate two handed homage Eric and Little Ern.  The festival's sponsorship makes the next available advertising slot now 3rd September ... did we say that we had nearly 20,000 visitors in January?

Halesworth early last week and telephone fraudsters bold enough to call on a house to collect bank and credit cards.

♫ Tonight at the Halesworth Cut the musical play Hey Jig-A-Jig celebrating Will Kemp's long distance dancing feat in 1600 ... and again in Halesworth today you can get your catalytic converter marked at the cop shop.  More Hey Jig-A-Jig next weekend in Lowestoft and Hoxne.

Actress Juliet Stephenson in 2012 and Halesworth added to peeps in Suffolk.

It has to be said that in the Halesworth Cut Friday night the Hackney Colliery Band were LOUD but at least half of the full house had seen them at last year's High Tide

festival so knew what they were getting and had come back for more.  Hard to categorise the band, they are thunderously driving, band leader Steve Pretty hot on the witty verbals and stage business, and snare drummer Luke Christie's expressive enthusiasm endearing and visually rewarding.  Last day of the festival this Saturday.

When we posted this pic of Juliet Stevenson at the 2012 High Tide festival in Halesworth on our Facebook page an Italian fan commented thought she was murdered in a Miss Marple.  This year's festival starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday 19th and we particularly fancy the Hackney Colliery Band this Friday and the conversation with actor Michael Gambon on the 19th.

Halesworth 2010 to 2007 has got its own page and encouragingly our Alexa ranking has gone under 300,000

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.

The Tessa Fucha Chamber Series of Sunday afternoon concerts start this Sunday at the Halesworth Cut with Philip Higham cello and Carole Presland piano.  Philip Higham has been described in the press as having all the qualities of a world class artist.