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Throwback Thursday: 8 years ago today we punted German singer/songwriter KC McKanzie at the Stowmarket John Peel Centre as one half of Leisure Tank.  We saw the show and afterwards most of the audience and some of the staff bought the cd.  By some odd coincidence we accidentally encountered her again in the foyer of the Festival Hall.

Work in progress hopefully making it easier to navigate this web site if you're visiting on a mobile phone ... try it now Framlingham.

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

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

Suffolk Overheard:  She It's worth how much?!  Sell it and take me down the pub.

The year moves on, Sunday is the autumnal equinox.

It's the time of year to benefit from bleeding radiators, and not in a sweary way.

BE WARNED There's another Friday the thirteenth in December.

Suffolk Overheard: No Mabel, you're not up to the trauma of a perm.

Our stock portfolio on Alamy is 9,000+ images and still growing.

We suspect it's the awesome power of AI that caused our Facebook page to go away for a bit today.  Our page was suspended for Impersonation (something to do with that there Ed Sheraton?) but returned within minutes of us appealing.

The barista where you can buy us a coffee is sportingly offering a short Americano with biscotti and dash of milk for just two pounds ... 

Suffolk Overheard : The Hallelujah Chorus?  I'm not standing for something that just keeps going ♫Hallelujah Hallelujah♫.

The fortnightly(ish) digest will email out today ... click Jaques Tati to get yours for free.

♫ How very flattering, singer songwriter Ella Spencer has bought us some coffees so we're linking up top^ to her new web site.  Reckon we might see her at the Maverick Thanksgiving party in November at Easton Farm Park.  If you'd like a link just buy us a coffee.

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

Our Alamy stock photo portfolio has over 9,000 images and is still growing.

Grateful thanks to the Sudbourne Park Printmakers for very welcome coffees.

Darren Smith on Framlingham market has bought us some coffees and we do so appreciate his support, his sea food (especially the cockles and mussels) and free consumer advice.

Everybody's interested in house prices.  Everybody?  Well nearly everybody.

Our thanks to the George Farnham Gallery Saxmundham for a trio of coffees.

Suffolk Overheard (in Sax perhaps surprisingly): I have a concept note I want to develop into a strategy outline.

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

Why didn't Trump Make America Great Again when he was president?  Oh he did and Biden has ungreated it again?  Righto.

House prices are always interesting, here's the July update. 

Astonisher No.62: Surely not surprising that Reform party MP Lee Anderson was deputy chairman for the Conservatives but more unlikely that he was also a Labour councillor ... not at the same time though ...

Maybe this is how the Tour de France should finish in Paris instead of the fans distant from the racing.  See it on the BBC red button after just a 3.5 hour wait ... and the last 30mins missing ...

Our most recent pc tip we're told by users is particularly welcome when really you need new glasses.

Life Skills No. 58:  For years we opened paint tins with a screwdriver then we bought a Wickes opener that looked a little like the screwdriver that came with Meccano.  It does work better than a screwdriver.  In time we realised it's perfect to put under the lid of a jar of gherkins or olives to ease the vacuum so you can get the lid off ... winner winner chicken dinner.

Suffolk Overheard: What's the French for rendezvous?

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.

Screwball comedy Why, hello Mr Galloway has snuck into reasons to be cheerful at 55, yes we do mess about with the list order ...

  The next available ad slot is now, it will take you to the end of summer.

Do remember this web site is not available in the shops.

We've inserted at 54 to reasons to be cheerful the both wonderful and excruciating singing telegram girl from Brazil.

Clicking a pic on here will usually get you a link and/or a bigger pic, try it now->

Life Skills No. 57:  We struggle with those beer four packs that are glued together to avoid a plastic binder.  Indeed on our first encounter we deployed a Swiss army knife and inadvertently cut through a can wall made of an aluminium only slightly thicker than a human hair.  Getting ready for England v Spain Sunday night we noticed there are instructions on the can side ... it was so much easier.

Everybody's interested in house prices.  Everybody?  Well nearly everybody.

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

Suffolk Overheard: ... and when she's not moaning she likes to complain.

Suffolk Overheard: He travels all the way from Southwold just to be annoying.

Suffolk Overheard (College boy in Fram Co-op): When he goes camping he takes a DJ just in case.

Suffolk Overheard: (speaking of a cat or possibly a teenage daughter): ... when she wants something we inevitably bend before the juggernaut that is her will ...

Suffolk Overheard: ... yes, any woman who works for him gets a business trip to Paris and a Parker pen ...

Suffolk Overheard (in an estate agents): ... he said he knew I must be her sister because I was so nice ...

Suffolk Overheard: She's very religious, she's made arrangements for the afterlife ... bought a fireproof purse.

Suffolk Overheard: Has anyone got the phone number of the Internet?  I want to place an ad.

Suffolk Overheard: ... he do like his football he do ...

Suffolk Overheard: (in Aldeburgh, well it would be): Yes in June we always attend the clan gathering at Hilllfoot, my husband is the chieftain.

Suffolk Overheard: He's totally mad, a complete cyclepath.

Suffolk Overheard: Stick 'and surrounding villages' after it, that'll help.