earlier near the coast

♫ We feared that Maverick being two months later this year and so darker and perhaps colder it wouldn't be as popular as previously, we were wrong ... more here

Travelling to Ipswich via Framsden and Westerfield the weekend before last we were surprised that none of the bus shelters seemed to have timetables.

This autumn Common Ground Theatre Company are touring around near the coast The Dream of A Ridiculous Man featuring Julian Harries born to play the Ridiculous Man.

Earlier this week thefts from garages in Stradbroke and Huntingfield.

Casting opportunity for British Asian actors from the very excellent Eastern Angles.

Perhaps surprisingly house sales active around near the coast in Saxmundham and Wickham Market but not Woodbridge.

A shed/workshop in Woodbridge Road Waldringfield was broken into sometime during the past few weeks and reported on Monday 12 July.  Tools and a mobility scooter were stolen.  Anybody with any infor are asked to contact Suffolk Police quoting crime references 37/37925/21, you can call 101.

Although the number of covid cases in East Suffolk is now galaxies away from last winter it is still on the rise.

An experienced nanny and an ex-Age UK care assistant both freelance and available near the coast.

We've renewed our garden waste subscription, as expected it went on for quite a bit and was very picky.  It might help if someone there understood defaults.

RoughCast Theatre start their summer tour of The Tempest tomorrow night at the Brockdish Old King's Head.  Brockdish and the Wingfield shows are already sold out but Saturday they are at the stunning Thorington Outdoor Theatre.

Thorington Outdoor Theatre is a stunning natural ampitheatre in woods not far from Darsham.  Last night we enjoyed Mini Mouth's dress rehearsal of A Mid-Summer's Night Dream for the theatre's opening tonight.  The large cast from very mini and upwards were thoroughly enjoying themselves (especially the pre-show warm up) and keeping the stage manager active marshalling youthful spirits:)

near the coast 2007-00 has become near the coast 2008-00 featuring Davy Crockett and the then still open Marlesford Bell.

As so often with memory stunned how long since we last visited the Sudbourne Printmakers.  This week they are being hosted by the Sweffling printroom and when we visited yesterday it was busy, lots of sales with Peter Besson clearly popular.  Next exhibitors at the printroom are local artists Amanda Edgcombe and Tassie Russell.

Shed burglaries at the beginning of the week in Tunstall  and Iken .

Next Tuesday here in near the coast  we could be getting a test text message as the first step in a national emergency message service.  The government is generously making this service available to the NHS but being Tories they will be making money out of it.

Sometime between late Thursday afternoon and Monday morning £24,000 of GPS was stolen from around Marlesford and what sounds like farm machinery.

Last week an overnight burglary near Walnut Lane Pettistree .

East Suffolk  (District) Council's paid service (£45) collecting large items for disposal started up again this week.

Wonderfully confusing calendar how bin collections  will hopefully restart next week.

Again near the coast bin collections have been CANCELLED for today.

Understandably bin collections around near the coast  have been CANCELLED today as well.

01:00pm: With power cuts (Leiston is out at the mo') around near the coast caused by the Beast from the East's younger brother you are likely to find this UK Power Networks' incident map useful (enter your postcode).

The other Walpole has the misfortune to be home of Ken Burns he of the relentlessly sentimental background music and equally relentless pan/zoom across a still image.

Last week two dogs worried pregnant ewes at Friston .

Pleasant Green is near the coast's own Sleepy Hollow and is between Orford and Rendlesham.

Sunday a charity fair in the Hasketon  Victory Hall, a quid to get in but that does include refreshments.

As we've noted before the Shepherd and Dog at Forward Green still has a TO LET sign and the recently expanded Stowupland  Co-op petrol station attractively has planters on the grass verge.

Designated Public Place Orders (DPPOs) were enacted in a bunch of near the coast  towns over ten years ago.  They aren't simple drinking bans, it's not illegal to have wine with a picnic as long as a copper doesn't ask you stop ... read the question.  DPPOs have been replaced by Public Space Protection Orders and last month East Suffolk Council resolved (didn't they vote?) to remove the DPPOs (number seven in the minutes).  Impressively they also thought to remove the signs that imply Framlingham Fen Meadow is the haunt of drunken muggers rather than sober(ish) dog walkers.

Very sad to report that the multi-talented James Holloway passed away some days back.

The Debach Airfield opening this Sunday will be the last of the year and it's Jeep Day Road Run too.

Over the weekend theatre company Stuff of Dreams will present the new play Edith in the Beginning.  It tells of Edith Pretty and the Sutton Hoo treasure and will be staged outdoors on the porch of Edith's residence Tranmer House at the Sutton Hoo site.

 JOB  Pig stockman wanted near the coast by Rattlerow Farm.

The level crossing at Westerfield is open again.

The Prima Donna festival at the end of next month near Pettaugh does pretty much what it says on the tin.

Voices floating past in near the coast and the early hours of Sunday will be the Dunwich Dynamo.

Roughcast Theatre are touring Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream around near the coast finishing with a dash over the channel for two shows in the Dordogne ... perhaps because it might be their last chance:)  Tomorrow there's a free performance at the Laxfield Low House.

Driving from much of near the coast to Norwich there was no petrol station until Long Stratton and that one on the wrong side.  Since May there's been a BP petrol station on the Scole A140/A143 roundabout near Diss.

To disprove that everything happens in June Mid Summer Music is at Grundisburgh House this coming Saturday. ♫

Expect some delays tomorrow around near the coast when the 2019 Women's Tour 2019 journeys from Beccles to Stowmarket.

♫ near the coast's other notable warbler Laura Wright joins our peeps in Suffolk page.

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.

Council elections around near the coast today but you would be hard pressed to know it.  A stunning lack of information about who the candidates are.

♫ Repeating last year's success Kio are playing for dancing at Stonham Aspal village hall this Saturday.

We've added a judge and spectators at Butley to Suffolk Gentleman and a gratifyingly side lit rider to our Flickr portfolio ... it's been a while.

Building work at the Co-op petrol station Stowupland will continue until at least May and possibly July.

A Wing and a Prayer is a large, colourful, glass art piece by Arabella Marshall which is expected to be installed into the ruined chapel at Minsmere this summer.  It will launch a three year programme of arts, nature and heritage based activities.

Starting Monday Roughcast Theatre have an eight date Suffolk tour of the comedy Hobson's Choice.  near the coast venues are Hoxne, Wingfield (nearly SOLD OUT) and the Halesworth Cut.

It's all the go in and about near the coast, temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with.  Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowmarket (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket.  Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge are copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!

All we could find on the web about Sunday's motorcycle trial was it was Sunday and somewhere around Butley.  In the event it was a mile or two from the village, well signposted with orange pennants, had a burger van and an enormous free car park.  Lots of women judges and unlike our last trial visit eleven! years ago there were a lot more modern bikes including two electrical jobbies.  We always like the surreal cinema image of a single motorbike making its way through the woods.

We could rant about the relentless building around near the coast making rural Suffolk increasingly suburban with little if any improved infrastructure but we'll console ourselves that it's still a pleasant place to live.  We have bubbling a slight change to our look and very probably stylish merch.  In 2019 no doubt there'll be continued sightings of Ed Sheeran, the East African will report local fury about something or other and there'll be even more building ... wishing you the best for 2019.

Donate your retiring Christmas tree to entertain the meerkats at Stonham Barns.