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We've started a new Instagram account more usefully named nearbythecoast.

The tractorati quivered with antici ... pation for the nearthecoast digest that emails out this afternoon.  Get your free copy by clicking on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

Planning a witch ducking this winter?  Or perhaps a trial by fire for an estate agent?  You're welcome to promote it on here.

Suffolk Truths No.107:  Honest Suffolk folk will usually turn out for a Remembrance Sunday parade.

Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

Our thanks to the George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham for a generous handful of coffees.  Their winter show has work by over 30 artists and makers and includes paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, wood, jewellery and more ...

Suffolk Overheard:  I'm a battler me ... no battler not butler!

The next available supporter slot is now, it will give you that nice warm feeling of having done the right thing.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emails out today at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

Stalwart nearthecoast supporter fishmonger Darren Smith keeps us going with much appreciated coffees, modern life mentoring and when in season fresh mussels.  Buy us a coffee and you can join Darren top left running into Christmas.

The year moves on, the clocks went back last night.

Throwback Thursday: 11 years ago today we reported a sheep in Easton giving us the same look people behind desks often deploy.

Worried too many people might turn up for your coffee morning?  Garden fete?  Swingers' party?  Don't do promotion on nearthecoast then.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will take your link well into winter.

How nice, Windows 11 is going to make all our lives better.

Here at nearthecoast batteries are no longer available for a Toshiba laptop and a HP laser printer probably because of a Win 10 update has started refusing to listen to a desktop ... the hidden cost of tech.

Suffolk Myths No.107: Town and parish councillors are elected even if there hasn't been an election.

Astonisher No.68:  Donald Trump ... surely we don't have to say any more.

Suffolk Truths No.107:  If people are reading the Eastern Daily Press you're probably not in Suffolk any more.

The village doesn't support you?  Promote yourself on nearthecoast.

Life Skills No. 68:  Surprisingly the email saying your Evri is ready for collection over the counter doesn't have a barcode.  It does remind you that photo id is needed because surprisingly your name seems to be enough ... worked in the Framlingham Co-op yesterday.

Astonishers has overflowed into more astonishers.

Don't know your way round nearthecoast?  You need the A to Z, it's FREE, kills 99% of known germs plus you don't have to pay and display or walk through the gift shop to get out.

SRN Nearthecoast is in, doesn't feel any government has ever treated nurses fairly, is fiddling with her tick list and clicky pen but still listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com.

Suffolk author and noted penny farthing rider Peter Berry was 50 when diagnosed with early onset dementia.  Safe and Found Online is a voluntary national register of vulnerable persons to aid police if a registrant goes missing, Pete was sensibly the 1,000th person to sign up.

Anorak Alert No.72: Hugh Bonneville as Mr Bennet in Lost In Austen calls a mattock a pick axe ... picky picky eh?