near the coast

Sunday night on The Green Grundisburgh an outbuilding's wooden door forced and a leaf blower and a long reach hedge trimmer stolen.  Any info please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/64706/23, you can call 101.

Earlier this week a burglary in Farnham and yesterday a 125cc Kawasaki moto stolen in Saxmundham.

The Shepherd and Dog at Forward Green between the Norwich road and Stowupland has builder's fencing up.  Regrettable but it has been TO LET possibly since 2018.

Aspal Antiques at Stonham Barns and the Aspall Cyder logo certainly have a family resemblance.

Saturday in the Harleston Swan Hotel Carvery a rehearsed script in hand reading of Pygmalion by the Harleston Players and Roughcast Theatre.  Free entry (donations welcome) and a bar ... what's not to like?

5-8pm tonight at the Butley Mills Studios is the private view (which isn't private) of Jim Racine's The Bird Alphabet ... on other random planets showing until 1 October.

Last chance this Sunday to visit Debach Airfield Museum which is ending the year with a jeep run ... it's free entry.

Police are not treating as suspicious a dead man found in a field off Snape Road Friston but they can't identify him.

Later:  Police now satisfied they know who the man is.

Around 12.40am yesterday a silver Volkswagen Polo collided with a tree on the Woodbridge Road B1083 Sutton and the single occupant in his late teens sustained potentially life-changing injuries.  The road remained closed for several hours reopening shortly after 9am.  Any info contact police quoting reference: 37/52983/23.

♫ This afternoon the last of six chamber music concerts in Cratfield this summer.  It's SOLD OUT so you probably will be missing <sigh> the London Haydn Quartet playing a programme of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and not surprisingly Haydn.

Suffolk Overheard: Listen, it's quite simple, the bar is open Fridays, Saturdays and Wednesdays ... except when the pool team is playing away.

After 126 years the Framlingham Barclays bank closed the Friday before last.  The cash dispenser and signs have gone, they'll need a carpenter to close the lobby doors which have no keyhole on the outside.  30 years ago Felixstowe was the nearest LINK cash dispenser to near the coast and Aldeburgh complained it had no ATM for visitors wanting to spend money ... what goes round comes round.

The Breath of Life by David Hare is a two hander played by Suzanna Pickering and Nina Trebilcock in this Old School Theatre production.  There are three dates this month around near the coast starting Friday at The Two Sisters Felixstowe which we have yet to visit.

Thursday this year's Tour of Britain will be visiting much of near the coast.

Martin & Howe's ultimate pop up today offering antiques+ in Peasenhall

♫ You may have noticed that from beyond the grave Allan Smethurst The Singing Postman delivers one in three of our fortnightly(ish) email digests.  Tonight at the Friston Chequers there's a tribute to him in aid of the air ambulance on a donation basis.

Sudbourne Park Printmakers are a group of some 30 artists and has a well equipped studio in a parkland setting near Orford.  Two members moving from Suffolk has created vacancies, more info and email Chrissy Norman before tomorrow the 18th.

Sometime in the previous month a Yamaha YZ426F motocross bike, a chain saw, two hedge trimmers and a strimmer were stolen from a Tannington shed on The Green.  Any info contact police crime ref 37/44517/23, you can call 101.

Common Ground's autumn tour gothic murder mystery The Hellgate Club is set in 1905 Paris.  Dates set near the coast include Halesworth, Woodbridge and Wingfield.

Suffolk Myth No.101:  Not everyone in Suffolk is related.

As previously the Dunwich Dynamo will pass through near the coast in the early hours of tonight.

Yes it's been a while but a new review of house sales around near the coast and Peasenhall now has its own house sales page.

Today and tomorrow a weekend of open gardens in Fressingfield.  Attractions include as you'd expect refreshments alcoholic and otherwise, cake of course, two markets plus sculpture and scarecrows.