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European elections TODAY though like the council elections you'd be hard pressed to notice.  So far around Stately Terrace Framlingham a difference of opinion and two leaflets from the Greens.

A very good job has been made of tidying up the fallen oak in Framlingham, an impressive before and after.

Next available advert slot above and in the twice(ish) monthly digest on the 8th July.  So to tell near the coast about yourself for two months at just £11.95 ... first come first served.

Next month Friday 21 June is the summer solstice and St Elizabeth Hospice will be lighting 5,000 candles in Felixstowe as Suffolk Remembers.  You can dedicate a candle to a memory for a suggested five pound donation.

After Twitter's recent makeover you can no longer save a tweet's large pic by right clicking on the small pic you have to click through to the large pic and save that.  The large pic is now default saved with a jpg extension rather than the previous and unhelpful jpg-large.

♫ At the end of next month Claire Weston and the Suffolk Singers present Summer Serenade in Aldeburgh Parish Church.  We last visited the church during the 2010 general election and slighty more recently enjoyed the Suffolk Singers in Debenham.

Last year in Framlingham.

Today in Framlingham a Plant Sale in the United Free and a Makers Market in the Unitarian (that's the one in Bridge Street).

The free entrance airfield museum at Debach opens during summer on the last Sunday of the month running until the last Sunday in October.  So the museum will be open tomorrow week.

Today the twice(ish) a month digest emailed out to the 1800+ ntcers on the list ... click Jaques Tati to go on the list.

Remember Roy at the Framlingham Crown (yes, he owes us money too), the Ladies Night, when the Crown had no gas and the NewYear's Eves congas?  We've moved stuff about and now there's a Framlingham Crown section going back to 2004.

♫ Tonight Spring Serenade at Farnham Church with fizz and canapés beforehand.

Here in what was the industrial South of Framlingham the broadband has been down for some 20 hours.  If you're getting Internet on your mobile phone you may be able to use the phone as a modem for your computer.  It's might be called tethering or possibly hotspot.  Use your mobile to Google using <mymobilephone> as a modem.  If you succeed your computer will be using your mobile's data allowance.

♫ Baron Du Dongleur's open mike at the Framlingham Castle Inn 9pm tonight.

Don't know your way round nearthecoast?  You need the A to Z, it's FREE, it kills 99% of known germs plus you don't have to pay and display or walk through the gift shop to get out.

Yesterday in Cambridge some twenty four Bury Saints outnumbered maybe two to one by hosts the Cambridge Cats had a very honourable 10-18 loss.  Two men with mobile phones were broadcasting the game live on student radio station Cam FM and a first for us, at the game end the refs understandably applauded the players.

TODAY Classic Bike Meet and Auto Jumble at the Lophams (it's the other side of Diss) Village Hall.

In Framlingham the oak tree on a bit of grass by the footpath to the Elms car park fell down yesterday afternoon thankfully without injury except to a fence.  Reportedly it collapsed gracefully.

Electric pig racing with a ploughmans and bar available at Hacheston village hall TONIGHT.  All profits to the East Anglian Children's Hospice.

♫ The Cheeseroom Collective keeping it tight but loose at the Blaxhall Ship Sunday afternoon.

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

♫ Vix and the Kicks (she does make the effort) at the Framlingham Castle Inn tomorrow night. ♫

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How very Suffolk:)  ♫ She Think's My Tractor's Sexy ♫

We have the handbill for the 1952 British Rail special run for the Framlingham Gala (poignant as regular passenger services to Fram ended in the October of that year) but we've mislaid the 1950s Gala prog offering a bicycle as the raffle's first prize and a running race class for unmarried ladies only.