earlier in Norfolk

Our only visit so far to the Burston Strike School Rally was an intriguing and free day out.  It's this Sunday and we're planning to go in expectation that we'll finally get to see comedian Attila the Stockbroker.

Yesterday afternoon a white Ford transit tipper van P 16 RGL with ROGER GLADWELL LANDSCAPING on the sides was stolen from a driveway in Green Street Hoxne.  It was was seen driving away in the direction of Diss on the B1118.  Any info please contact police quoting reference 37/42752/24, you can call 101.

New to us Top Girls one of the 10 greatest plays of the 20th century includes an hilarious dinner party and a Norfolk kitchen sibling confrontation.  Rough Cast finish a seven date tour around near the coast this weekend at the Diss Corn Hall Friday and the Wingfield Barns Saturday and Sunday.

7:30pm tomorrow at the very pleasant Brockdish Kings Head RoughCast Theatre will be reading the the Moliere comedy School for Wives.  Remembering how well a French farce went in a Framlingham garden Moliere instead of Shakespeare for the company's summer tour seems a plan.

This Sunday the annual Thetford Militaria Fair at Thetford Leisure Centre.

The Parham Airfield Museum opened at the beginning of April, today they have a visit from the Norfolk car club.

In Norfolk 2016 there was Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the Bungay Fisher Theatre and a Tasburgh bus shelter was absolutely destroyed.

♫ Tonight at the Fisher Theatre Bungay Tosca a live on screen repeat from The Royal Opera.  Yes a ways to go but not expensive and the Fish is a charming venue with a very pleasant bar.

The public toilets by the Long Stratton Co-op closed for building work.

The Burston Rally organisers are asking people to NOT attend this Sunday.

Saddening but not surprisingly the Red Rooster Festival near Thetford has been postponed until next year.  Robert Stan Stamper (seen here on the Ipswich Cardinals chain crew entertaining the visiting Bury Saints sideline) at last year's Maverick Festival before dashing off to dance with his daughter told us the 2018 Roosterfest had been brilliant. ♫

♫ We're easily confused but what we've worked out is the Red Rooster festival near Thetford was postponed back in March to September but as it would have been this weekend it's gone virtual on its Facebook page.

There have been 1,235 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Suffolk and Norfolk has the worst percentage in East Anglia.  Forty fourth reason to be cheerful ... do we recognise this ... I've looked all over this keyboard and there isn't a button with OK on it.

A Norfolk Constabulary police car parked in Victoria Mill Road Framlingham.

100 free Red Rooster festival tickets for NHS and key frontline workers.

Aldeburgh Cinema has closed for the duration so we won't get to see Emma this afternoon but the Woodbridge Riverside seems to be partially functioning.  The Red Rooster festival near Thetford has been postponed to September and Life Arts have postponed April's Woodbridge festival to next year.  All Snape Maltings music events cancelled until the end of April (we were lucky), the Phoenix Singers concert in Framlingham next month cancelled as is the Campsea Ashe Spring Fayre this Saturday and still only three virus cases in Suffolk.

♫ At this year's Red Rooster Festival near(ish) Thetford Asleep at the Wheel celebrate 50 years on the road.  Perhaps best described as western swing AatW with maybe slightly fewer players than we recall but still the fine chest voice of Ray Benson.

Here's a cunning plan, to mark the centenary of WWI ending you could see the Harleston Players production of Blackadder Goes Forth at the High School tonight or tomorrow.

86 years ago today Harold Davidson the rector of Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast was defrocked after being found guilty of disreputable association with women.  He died after being mauled by a lion.

Bonkers Conkers is happening this Sunday in or near(ish?) to Swainsthorpe near Norwich but that's all we know.

At today's Zombie Evacuation in Hockwold cum Wilton (it's near Lakenheath) Nursie and Gingham Girl had clearly been street muggers in a previous life.  As always good fun, unlike last year it didn't rain and perhaps the baby zombie was the scariest of all.  Back again about the same time next year and a charity colour run is being planned for next April.

♫ Stuff to do around near the coast this weekend includes tonight a music quiz at the Framlingham Crown, the free Laxitude all weekend with Lyrical Jukebox and naughty Harleston boys Red Mecca playing tonight plus Maritime Woodbridge tomorrow and Sunday.

Suffolk Police have removed their YouTube lip sync vid (something to do with Tim Passmore?) but the Norfolk cops vid is still there .. coppers dancing is a bit like a politician trying to tell a joke.

We were planning to visit the Burston Strike School rally today but got distracted by the Framlingham Flyers' 10k.  Some 400 entrants, loads of marshals and helpers, selection race for Suffolk County, the smallest and youngest water person we've yet seen and we heard that the course record was broken, probably by this bloke.  It'll have to be Burston next year then ...

♫ Pleasant memories of the late Outlaws at the Park Hotel Diss in 2012 though we did walk out of the wrong door and had to go all the way round to get back in.  Tonight at the hotel it's Elton John and George Michael ... reckon that'll be tribute acts then.

Yesterday amidst passing cyclists (who stopped to watch), motorbikes and drivers (one of whom informed the crowd The police are on the way) the Rendham Mummers in their usual chaotic manner delighted.  The post performance buckets go to the Suffolk and Norfolk charity Fresh Start.

Yesterday one of only two still flying Lancaster bombers flew over Bury Saints v Bristol Aztecs in Thetford.

Yesterday's Bury Saints v London Olympians in Thetford was full of incident including starting 45 minutes late because the medic couldn't find the venue.  The refs ended the game early because an injured player on the field couldn't be moved until an ambulance arrived so we're uncertain of the score but certainly an Olympians win.

Things to do tomorrow include a Maker's Market in the Framlingham Unitarian, the Large Model Association's Air Show at Tibenham (it's over the border nearish to Long Stratton) and men's British Championship roller derby at Inspire Ipswich.

♫ This Saturday the organ festival in Diss (including The Grange Musical Collection) sounds good fun, pity it clashes with roller derby in Ipswich.

Tonight in Diss an everybody welcome read through of Hobson's Choice by Roughcast Theatre, an event that is often followed by a pub inspection.

Booze pinched last month from the Halesworth and Harleston Co-ops, police want to interview this man.

 JOB  Full time paid cafe manager sought at the Corn Hall Diss.

Man in the Hat will be deploying his impressive chest voice again tomorrow at the Red Lion Needham ... that's the one near Harleston not Needham Market. ♫