near the coast in 2012

It'll be a while before we have a date like 12/12/12 again.

The Keeper's Daughter starting tonight in Kelsale are out on the road around near the coast with this year's Christmas show Twas The Night Before Christmas until the 29th.  We saw the dress rehearsal Monday in Needham Norfolk and it looks another stunner with a central magnificently awful pun ... people like magnificently awful puns, that's why they buy red tops.

Today is Saint Cecilia the patron saint of music's feast day.♫ 

Framlingham's finest The Outlaws have had to cancel their gig at the Trimley St Martin Social this Friday.♫

All three of the Suffolk Trinity will be attending the family day at the Hollesley Bay Colony Stud today (thanks Teresa) and the show at Wingfield College including

work by artist siblings Thom and Ania Hobson continues until Sunday week.

Bring your own sandwiches but free bicycle coding at police picnics in Bawdsey, Boyton and Hollesley later this week and a crime reduction day with refreshments in Otley tomorrow afternoon.

Things to do Saturday include the scouts' boot sale in Saxmundham (they use to be on Sundays?) and Framlingham Castle Inn's Party by the Park 2 with Marc Everett and Lucy Sampson and others.  We ate Sunday roast off a Lavenham decorated place mat for our teenage years so know it's picturesque, this weekend in the village hall Suffolk Exhibitions are showing Art Photography Ceramics and Textiles.

Despite the weather Central Suffolk Rabbit and Cavy Club enjoyed the Heveningham Hall Country Fair earlier this month.  Ray Everitt's Californian and P and D Nunn's black English Crested won best in show.

What an nice change to have some half way decent weather yesterday for Mouth to Mouth's production of the musical Godspell in the Debenham Angel's garden.  As

always quirky, original and highly entertaining we were particularly pleased to see a ukulele move from the pit to centre stage.  Mouth to Mouth's garden tour continues this coming weekend at Hoxne, Framlingham, Orford and Laxfield.

Christmas 1931 in Framlingham, rambling near the coast in 1963, the Wickham Market post office from a time when the post arrived in the morning and the Queen's Head Dennington.

Reckon we could make a good guess at which business premise was burgled in Kettleburgh last week and house sales still quiet near the coast.

Despite loosing a day to the high winds the Suffolk Land Rover Owners Club still raised £2,000 for charity at the Suffolk Show.  They are near the coast 14-15 July at Stonham Barns for the Mid and West Suffolk Show.

Police Direct reporting flooded roads around Bredfield, Debenham, Helmingham, Melton, Otley, Stowmarket and Woodbridge ... bad enough that Victoria from the Framlingham Bookshop gave up try to get from Stowupland to Fram this morning.

There were eight motorcycle fatalities in Suffolk last year and if it ever stops raining it'll be the biking season so the cops are running the fifth and sixth of ten Bikesafe workshops this coming weekend.

Bentwaters Cold War Museum re-opened for the summer at the beginning of the month.

Wonder what Andrea Hill Suffolk's own Tony Soprano is doing these days?

Mmm ... nearthecoast special constable Louise Berrill is running the New York half marathon in uniform from the waist up ... sounds like a photo op.

Suffolk Coastal Petanque Alliance registration this Friday in Huntingfield.

What was a Shell garage in Stowupland is now the Co-op with Total petrol and a letterbox by the door for your repeat prescriptions, how very sensible.

In Stately Terrace last night there was so much of this stuff about it was snowing indoors.

We haven't heard about any Burns Night celebrations tomorrow nearthecoast but we do know that Friday Grethic/Farctum is hosting a quiz at the Saxtead Old Mill.

It may have been Epiphany yesterday but Saxmundham was still looking rather lovely in her Christmas lights and last week in the charmingly named Laundry Lane Huntingfield a half hearted break in.

Hopefully in 2012 we won't loose another friend before their time, Fram market will remain a venue to rant and drink good coffee, Earl Soham beer will bring its own joy, we'll get skies like this, the Maverick gigs are a continuing success, nearthecoast's great and good get greater and gooderer whilst ntc continues to be maddeningly endearing ... and roller derby having got as far as Yarmouth will finally find its way to Suffolk ... but don't hold your breath.  Happy New Year!