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In Ipswich last night as always the Eastern Angles Christmas show was very jolly and today is the winter solstice ... despite flooding and Brexit from now on things should get better.

Police are concerned for 24 year old mother Ashleigh Fisk and her two very young sons missing from Ipswich possibly since Tuesday.

Gosh it's 12 years since we saw Red Rose Chain Shakespeare in Rendlesham Forest and we are now a little vague which play it was but we do recall l♥ving it.  Red Rose play Romeo and Juliet until Sunday at Jimmy's Farm on the outskirts of Ipswich and reckon it'll be just as good.

We were surprised and much saddened to learn that Ipswich Cardinals owner and general manager Ralph Alexander has passed away, it seemed to ... more here

Sunday it looked like it was going to be an Ipswich Cardinals walkover with two early touch downs against an outnumbered East Kent Mavericks.  Approaching the end of the first half the Mavericks recovered their own dropped ball to run it in a ... more here

Annoyingly the diversion for the closed Westerfield level crossing is NOT signed but we still made it to Ipswich Cardinals v Maidstone Pumas yesterday.  Surprisingly there were no refs and general manager Ralph said other games were also ... more here

Remember Hassan who opened the Pizza Grill in Bridge Street Framlingham?  These days he is the California Grill in Ipswich but today was on the Castle Meadow for the Gala Fest with his baby son Hassan Jnr.  The paella looked wonderful and judging by the queue probably was.  Lots of smiles and as always the Gala Princesses looked and were princessly.

In the past seven months 23 keyless entry Mercedes Sprinter vans have been stolen in Ipswich.

Saturday at White House Farm Great Glemham Maggi Hambling will open the Alde Valley Spring Festival and certainly she will be as entertaining as always.  In the evening and the Debenham St Mary's Ipswich G&S will present their concert Music for everyone! ♫

Like we said Tuesday in a further attempt to please Mr Google the gridiron UK section now has an Ipswich Cardinals page.

The St Elizabeth Hospice Bubble Rush in Christchurch Park Ipswich is terrific fun even when it rains.  Cheaper early bird tickets are available now (you click 'Register').

In an Ipswich B&Q yesterday we asked Where are the toilets? and got the reply To use or to buy?

It must be well over a decade since we saw an Eastern Angles Christmas show and we don't recall the now available free parking at the rear of the Ipswich theatre but it's still a small cast working their socks off.  Saturday it was five actors who had Fenland Screamers tightly polished prompting laughter and applause from the audience.  We got to be part of a rope bridge and had an actor sit on our lap ... unfortunately not one of the ladies.  The show continues this month including a run at the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge.

Like so many we were charmed by Ipswich man the late Brian Cant's easy going charm.  He passed away last Monday aged 83.

Suffolk CAMRA's Big Nigel was in the Framlingham Station last night and said CAMRA are helping out at Beer and Folk (featuring Honey and the Bear) on the Ipswich Waterfront starting today. ♫

Yesterday evening a pedestrian died at the scene on the A14 Ipswich by junction 57, that's the last junction before the Orwell Bridge when travelling west.

We're great fans of Tom Lehrer here and still treasure his gentle put down of Roy Plomley I think you're confusing arithmetic with mathematics.  Tribute The Remains of Tom Lehrer at the Ipswich Wolsey tonight. ♫

Ipswich library and one way system reviewed in The Guardian.

The Ipswich Empress roller rink was on the corner of Portman Road and Sir Alf Ramsey Way and unlike the BBC Maida Vale studios which started out as the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace the Empress now seems to be car park.

As we've said before you don't have to be young to be bad, a 77 year old Ipswich man has been arrested with three others at a Stonham Aspal cannabis farm.

The Sexual Assault Referral Centre is on the outskirts of Ipswich and provides a single location to support and investigate particularly child, and young and vulnerable adult victims.  A lump of money from central government has paid £18,000 for a video link so victims can give evidence from the centre and £12,000 on a 3D distraction system.  The distraction system is a large screen over the medical examination couch that shows calming and moving 3D images, a user can blow in to a pipe to apparently make bubbles come out of the screen and if a finger clip is worn software helps the wearer slow their heart rate.  It all makes sense though no doubt as with all computers there'll be a certain amount of Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Suffolk police have seized 400 Superman ecstasy tablets hidden in a public place near Norwich Road Ipswich, Norwich Road is a long road.  In the same press release the police report arresting a 19 year old for supplying class B drugs, ecstasy is a class A drug.

Suffolk police have released a pic of the 'Superman' ecstasy tablets suspected of killing at least two in Ipswich and possibly others in the UK including Telford Shropshire.

WARNING  Over the Christmas period in Ipswich three men have died and a fourth hospitalised in a serious condition in drug related incidents.  Police suspect a bad batch of ecstasy.

For Friday's Red Nose day Kesgrave's Cafe 66 had a cardinal cooking lunch and the local police pursued a comedy burglar through a Tesco Metro, boarded a number 66 bus to further pursue the miscreant through the grounds of police headquarters before capture in a Martlesham car park.

Our first problem Saturday night was thinking the Ipswich Spread Eagle is the Falcon ... which hasn't been the Falcon for some time apparently.  In the wilderness of an Ipswich Sunday night finding someone to solve our confusion we discovered the Giles family statue has moved to the other side of the road and the Cromwell Square car park has gained a statue of Prince Obolensky playing rugby, bare chested for some reason.  In the new to us and very pleasant Spread Eagle we saw great hair and red Gretsch guitars swimming in echo being played in rockabilly bands The Hepmasters and The Humdingers who sandwiched burlesquer Siren Hard Corr trouping on despite an erratic sound system.  All this raised £320 which will more than cover the insurance so Ipswich Roller Derby can start training hopefully later this month.♫

Be careful, that escaped in Ipswich seven and a half foot long snake might have a bus pass ...