Ipswich

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).

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

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

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.

St 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Common Ground Theatre's Christmas tour of 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.

 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.