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sa 21 Jul 2018	♫ In aid of the Beehive Children's Refuge Kenya there's a flute and piano concert in All Saints Church Wickham Market 3pm tomorrow.
th 28 Jun 2018	This evening Wilby village hall and bar opens at 6:45pm for 7:00pm kickoff of England v Belgium on the big screen and Saturday 11:30am-2:00pm the Wilby Primary School Summer Fair with a Science Extravaganza.
th 14 Jun 2018	Following a 55-00 loss against London Blitz B the weekend before last the Ipswich Cardinals american football continued a now 3-1 winning season after a 42-06 win over visitors Maidstone Pumas last weekend who despite being much outnumbered stuck at it good humouredly.
th 7 Jun 2018	Nice to see the team time trial back in the Tour de France after missing for three years. It's stage three with some thirty kilometres around Cholet. Holidaying in the Vendée our late father could not resist making jokes about wombles and Cholet.
mo 4 Jun 2018	Graduation yesterday in Framingham ... no, Framingham.
th 31 May 2018	roller derby 2016 included Norfolk Brawd Vixen Mortar making a marriage proposal mid-jam and a Chelmsford Killa Hurtz roller girl on a corner in Wimslow Arizona
we 2 May 2018	not near the coast 2015-14.
su 15 Apr 2018	At the end of last season with minutes to go a one point kick would have put the Ipswich Cardinals into overtime against the Essex Spartans ... they went for two and didn't make it. At the start of this season ... more here
mo 2 Apr 2018	This Sunday it's the queen of the classics the 115th edition of Paris-Roubaix. The bike race is characterised by sections of evil cobbles, we've driven over some and they are nasty. Known as The Queen ... more here
su 1 Apr 2018	Early this morning Framlingham town council pulled off their own bank holiday Glencoe by activating their extraordinary executive powers to tell the developers to get stuffed and ending all road closures and temporary traffic lights within 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) of that bloody castle on the hill.
th 29 Mar 2018	For some reason Tuesday's digest the Parham/Thorpeness* one* is being popular in the Czech Republic.
we 7 Feb 2018	Sunday in Norwich the very bent chain stick from the last home game was still very bent but that didn't stop UEA Pirates beating visitors the Cambridge Pythons 45-00 and so progress to the playoffs. It may have been a shut out for the Pythons but they impressively stayed plugging away including wide receiver 19.
sa 13 Jan 2018	Sometime in the early nineties we went to the National Cyclocross Championships in the woods by Ipswich's speedway track ... it was a low key event. In 1983 we went to the World Cyclocross Championships in Birmingham ... it was a low key event. The 2018 national championships are in Sunderland and being streamed by the BBC live tomorrow ... perhaps not so low key.
fr 5 Jan 2018	Come to that the inside lane of the southbound A12 around Colchester is pretty bad too.
su 31 Dec 2017	The northbound carriageway of A12 we think north of Colchester has some worryingly large potholes ... more long than round holes ... cracks that have got ideas above their station.
we 18 Oct 2017	A bit of a trek down the A14 but as part of the 37th Cambridge film festival the family film festival has for half term new Peppa Pigs, Michael Rosen's We're Going On A Bear Hunt in animation, a sing along of Disney's Moana and the wonderfully evocative, period and Oscar winning The Red Balloon. Some tickets are free and all others (including adults) are four quid.
tu 19 Sep 2017	The Zombie Evacuation in Hockwold cum Wilton Sunday had a more open setting than the Cambridge Evac we snapped three years ago but generous use of smoke grenades and energetically committed zombies made for the expected stimulating experience. Pleasant coffee service from the converted horsebox and thankfully the heavy rain held off until the event was pretty much over. The zombies are returning to Hockwold September next year.
th 14 Sep 2017	Zombie Evacuation (last seen near Cambridge) returns Sunday, this time to Hockwold Hall near Thetford Norfolk ... well it would be wouldn't it.
su 13 Aug 2017	Saturday the Riverside Centre Chelmsford didn't have a functioning car park but it does have decent coffee and in the sports hall we enjoyed ref Blaster Chief's very clear penalty signals and a Surrey skater fleeing during the first half because she was needed elsewhere as a bridesmaid. A Norfolk Brawds 473-065 whitewash .. more here

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