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sa 10 Aug
2024

LNER Class A4 Mallard - 126mph in 1938Starting tonight and expected to last a week replacement buses on the Ipswich-Westerfield line.

mo 15 Jul
2024

Ipswich Sport Karate ClubIpswich Sport Karate Club's tournament in the Hacheston village hall Saturday had a full house, a contact exhibition bout, lots of commitment and some very pleasant cake.

sa 20 Apr
2024

♫ Tonight Ipswich Choral Society celebrate their 200th Anniversary by concerting at the Snape Maltings.

th 18 Apr
2024

Gridiron UKThe British American football season's second week Sunday with the Norwich Devils at home to the London Olympians and Ipswich Cardinals away to East Essex Sabres at Deanes Sports Centre Benfleet.

fr 9 Feb
2024

♫ The impressively careered Dana Gillespie and the impressively numerous London Blues Band play the Ipswich Jazz Club this Sunday afternoon.  American football in East AngliaRegrettably we'll be in Colchester for UEA Pirates v Essex Blades:(

sa 20 Jan
2024

Expect the Orwell Bridge to close tomorrow afternoon.

tu 16 Jan
2024

Suffolk ConstabularyTowards the end of last year and already this year there have been multiple storage container forced entries in locations including Melton, Martlesham and Ipswich.  In most cases hand tools and machinery were stolen.  Entry has been made using heavy duty cutting equipment.  General security advice can be found here.

tu 17 Oct
2023

Ipswich G&S Soc rehearsal We've enjoyed a fun concert performance of HMS Pinafore with a single piano accompaniment.  When the diverse instruments (including timps) fired up the Pinafore overture at the Ipswich G&S Soc rehearsal last night we grinned with pleasure.  The show is at the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge 1-4 November (though ticketing is by the Wolsey).

th 14 Sep
2023

 JOB  In Ipswich the Eastern Angles are recruiting an Associate Director (Engagement and Participation).

th 7 Sep
2023

St Elizabeth Hospice furniture projectWe once broke a gas stove into small enough bits we could get rid of it in the wheelie bin over a number of weeks.  A more elegant way to divest of large or otherwise furniture is to give it to Ipswich's St Elizabeth Hospice.  They collect six days a week so it saves you time and money whilst helping a very good cause indeed.

we 9 Aug
2023

We rather like the Cajun overtones of The Cadillac Kings, they're playing Ipswich Sunday at Venue 16 on the Tuddenham Road. ♫

fr 12 May
2023

Some things to do tomorrow include the St Elizabeth Hospice Recruitment Open Day in Ipswich and the bluebells at White House Farm Great Glemham, no dogs please.

mo 1 May
2023

St Elizabeth HospiceSt Elizabeth Hospice need marshals for their Midnight Walk in Ipswich on the 20th.  We suspect as they are presently short handed they'll probably be flexible about applying before the 5th.

fr 14 Apr
2023

Tonight Ella Spencer will be supporting American singer/songwriter Jerry Joseph at the Ipswich Smokehouse. ♫

fr 6 Apr
2023

We reckon the Ipswich-Saxmundham rail line and the Sax station car park should reopen today.

we 8 Mar
2023
road closures

Road works eh?The A12 between Ipswich and the M25 has three sets of road works with at least two likely to run into next year and signs on the A12 between Martlesham and the A14 announce road works due this month ... not easy to find details online.

sa 25 Feb
2023

When we visited the Ipswich Cardinals last Sunday we found a lot ... more here  Gridiron UK

th 9 Feb
2023

 JOBS  Part time (up to 16 hours) medicine counter assistant at the Framlingham Pharmacy and a new artistic director at the Eastern Angles.

we 18 Jan
2023
Theatrical masks of comedy and tragedy
Winnie the Pooh Day - AA Milne's birthday

A Murder at St Muttley'sCommon Ground Theatre's Christmas tour of Bah, humbug!comedy A Murder at St Mutley's continues this week in the Gallery Studio Theatre Ipswich and ends Sunday over the county border in Chipping Ongar.  For certain they'll be back touring near the coast soon.

mo 9 Jan
2023
Plough Monday

 JOBS  The Framlingham chippy is looking for part time staff, St Elizabeth Hospice needs furniture van drivers at the Martlesham Retail Centre and you have until tomorrow to apply as Homework Club Assistant for the Eastern Angles in Ipswich.

we 14 Dec
2022

♫ A three act concert in Woodbridge this Saturday including the interestingly named Bold and Saucy Wrongs (we suspect it's Shakespearean).  Appropriately at this difficult time proceeds will go to Families in Need Ipswich.

tu 13 Dec
2022

Friday the Ipswich Hospital Band in concert at St Peter's Charsfield with spiced drinks and inevitably a raffle.

we 9 Nov
2022

Shakatak - Dark is the Night♫ We have a slightly uncertain memory we saw Shakatak at BBC Pebble Mill in 1983, the same year that Dark Is The Night peaked at 15 inBah, humbug! the UK charts.  They were clearly jazz influenced but we were a little surprised that they are playing the Ipswich Jazz Club next month, an early Christmas treat eh?

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