fr 4 Oct 2024 | Our life skills section has birthed a yet more skills page. |
th 29 Aug 2024 | ♫ 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. |
fr 23 Aug 2024 | Grateful thanks to the Sudbourne Park Printmakers for very welcome coffees. |
tu 20 Aug 2024 | Everybody's interested in house prices. Everybody? Well nearly everybody. |
su 18 Aug 2024 | Our thanks to the George Farnham Gallery Saxmundham for a trio of coffees. |
mo 16 Sep 2024 | The year moves on, Sunday is the autumnal equinox. |
sa 14 Sep 2024 | It's the time of year to benefit from bleeding radiators, and not in a sweary way. |
su 4 Aug 2024 | 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 ... |
su 28 Jul 2024 | Screwball comedy Why, hello Mr Galloway has snuck into reasons to be cheerful at 55, yes we do mess about with the list order ... |
mo 22 Jul 2024 | We've inserted at 54 to reasons to be cheerful the both wonderful and excruciating singing telegram girl from Brazil. |
mo 15 Jul 2024 | Everybody's interested in house prices. Everybody? Well nearly everybody. |
tu 9 Jul 2024 | Fish, still missed. |
th 4 Jul 2024 | VOTE Remember to vote you need photo id. |
we 26 Jun 2024 | VOTE If you need photo id to vote July 4 you have to apply by 5pm TODAY. |
su 16 Jun 2024 | Man in the Hat has been getting out and about, have your link join his link at the page top just buy us a coffee. |
sa 15 Jun 2024 | It's our seventeenth birthday today, one more year and we'll be able to go in pubs ... legally. |
fr 14 Jun 2024 | Busy in the supermarket today, the checkouter reckoned it's a combination of Father's Day this Sunday and the Euros. |
we 12 Jun 2024 | Out thanks to Man in the Hat for buying us coffee, his fine baritone voice will be deployed Saturday week at the Bar 32 Rendlesham. ♫ |
mo 10 Jun 2024 | ♫ We like Radio 3's Private Passions, it's a more musically orientated Desert Island Discs but it confused us yesterday (especially as our watch had become unreliable) by delightfully growing to 90 mins. A bit surprised by guest Brian Cox's near religious fervour that it's humanity's obligation to explore the stars ... |
fr 7 Jun 2024 | New supporter up top are the Hertfordshire Cheetahs who added to our coffee wellbeing. Should you care to join the happy band of our supporters just buy us a coffee. |
sa 1 Jun 2024 | Congratulations if you've fully No Mow Mayed. We shall be giving the lawn a haircut tomorrow as it's a four team tournament at the Norwich Devils Women today. |
th 30 May 2024 | If like us you're No Mow Maying and the lawn is looking overwhelmingly shaggy and unkempt stick with it, just two days to go. |
th 16 May 2024 | Some of the entries on our page Suffolk Myths have a heavy element of irony so we've weeded them out onto the new page Suffolk Truths. |
su 12 May 2024 | Although we reckon it's nicest if you fully embrace No Mow May we also reckon only mowing some of your lawn or not mowing for part of May will help. |
fr 3 May 2024 | ♫ Certainly worth a revisit and created before AI. |
th 18 Apr 2024 | Reason to be cheerful number 59 is The Girl With the Red Beret ... quite charming. |
su 14 Apr 2024 | We've added to Suffolk Ladies lead singer of the Hello Darlin's Candace Lacina at last year's Maverick Americana festival. |
we 10 Apr 2024 | Painfully we've culled our YouTube reasons to be cheerful list from 70 odd to 50 odd and added number 58 the uber cool Bill Nighy in that there London. |
mo 8 Apr 2024 | We were toying with another server move but it got too complicated so not tonight Josephine ... |
su 7 Apr 2024 | Our supporter links at the page top are back, the problem was our rough and ready coding. Very grateful to Pearl on tech support who demonstrated the blinding obvious we'd either never worked out or perhaps forgotten:( |
sa 6 Apr 2024 | In a lifetime of laughter and tears we've noticed people who think they outrank you often resort unnecessarily to an analogy usually involving football or the motor car. |
fr 5 Apr 2024 | We're still being unreliable after the server move, but things are getting better ... mind you we're probably going to move again. |
th 4 Apr 2024 | We went away yesterday afternoon but we're back now ... it was nothing personal. |
su 31 Mar 2024 | We're back (sort of) the clocks have gone forward and it's World Backup Day. |
sa 30 Mar 2024 | We've taken a deep breath, thought of England and started moving ourselves to a new server ... expect disruption. |
th 28 Mar 2024 | Rubbish Thursday (the day before Good Friday) Antiques+ Roadshow in Fram. |
sa 30 Mar 2024 | We've taken a deep breath, thought of England and started moving ourselves to a new server ... expect disruption. |
th 28 Mar 2024 | Rubbish Thursday (the day before Good Friday) Antiques+ Roadshow in Fram. |
tu 26 Mar 2024 | That'll teach us to gob off about Suffolk Coastal PPC Jenny Ridell-Carpenter's barren social medianess, she's been on Twitter since 2011. |
we 20 Mar 2024 | The Life in the UK test should evaluate how interested British citizenship applicants are in house prices to be truly meaningful. |
th 14 Mar 2024 | ♫ Reason to be Cheerful 73 (probably means the list needs a little culling) is David Byrne's wonderful staging of Burning Down The House. The way you get a barefoot walking drum kit is to have six percussionists, a strange cut ending and his voice has rewardingly dropped a little becoming less squeaky. |
tu 12 Mar 2024 | We can much recommend Oscar winning Nomadland streaming on Channel 4 ... despite being about blue collar America it doesn't get violent. |
sa 9 Mar 2024 | WARNING It's Mother's Day tomorrow and by then your local garage might have sold out of aging blooms ... very probably carnations. |
tu 5 Mar 2024 | We've given up trying to untag ourselves from someone else's elderly photos on that there Facepack and stated tagging ourselves to create a best of. |
sa 3 Feb 2024 | ♫The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale♫ ... a new reason to be cheerful ... (PS: it was a souped up jitney that they bought). |
fr 2 Feb 2024 | Regrettably des' dinners never visited the Leiston Volunteer and now like the Farnham George and Framlingham White Horse it's long gone. |
th 1 Feb 2024 | Like that .. pixel peepers eh? |
fr 19 Jan 2024 | It's all gone a bit quiet quiet quieter about that cage fight eh? |
we 17 Jan 2024 | Making us feel internationally glamorous Tessa Prior Thompson bought us a coffee from the Victoria Falls. |
mo 15 Jan 2024 | WARNING TODAY is Blue Monday. |
mo 8 Jan 2024 | Today is Plough Monday. |
sa 6 Jan 2024 | The presenters on Radio 3 seemed to have changed their minds and gone back to Twelfth Night being today ... we've taken the cards down. |
sa 30 Dec 2023 | We've very reluctantly changed the roller derby pic heading on our Twitter account but it had become irrelevant. |
fr 29 Dec 2023 | Licensed two skateboarding pix on Alamy making 2023 our best year evah. |
th 28 Dec 2023 | We've change how we do ads now you just buy us a coffee, hopefully more straight forward. Darren Smith and the George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham have already taken advantage ... thanks, much appreciated. |
A bit embarrassing to see academics being showbiz but this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are about AI and there's good stuff. | |
th 21 Dec 2023 | |
we 20 Dec 2023 | TODAY is last day posting first class in time for Christmas. |
tu 19 Dec 2023 | A selection of what happened last year near the coast has joined nearthec 20s. |
su 17 Dec 2023 | In November we were our busiest for a while; 13,469 visitors viewed 34,600 pages during 18,025 visits ... you're welcome:) |
su 10 Dec 2023 | Hopefully you've noticed that we've had a modest makeover? It should make us display better on multiple devices especially mobile phones. |
♫ We've started an Advent playlist, today's entry is Mel and Kim's 1950s parody of Rocking Around The Christmas Tree. | |
sa 9 Dec 2023 | Facebook have been pratting about again with photo albums, so no change there then. We've fixed it so you're getting hopefully more meaningful pix. |
tu 5 Dec 2023 | ♫ Four months too late for Radio 3's Casseptember but if you're even just a slightly bit techie an intriguing piece on the Sony Walkman. |
fr 1 Dec 2023 | :) More updates on our Reasons To Be Cheerful play list. |
th 30 Nov 2023 | Despite Elon Musk's obviously poor mental health our Twitter feed has reappeared on our right sidebar and is available on some devices. |
su 10 Dec 2023 | Hopefully you've noticed that we've had a modest makeover? It should make us display better on multiple devices especially mobile phones. |
♫ We've started an Advent playlist, today's entry is Mel and Kim's 1950s parody of Rocking Around The Christmas Tree. | |
sa 9 Dec 2023 | Facebook have been pratting about again with photo albums, so no change there then. We've fixed it so you're getting hopefully more meaningful pix. |
tu 5 Dec 2023 | ♫ Four months too late for Radio 3's Casseptember but if you're even just a slightly bit techie an intriguing piece on the Sony Walkman. |
fr 1 Dec 2023 | :) More updates on our Reasons To Be Cheerful play list. |
th 30 Nov 2023 | Despite Elon Musk's obviously poor mental health our Twitter feed has reappeared on our right sidebar and is available on some devices. |
su 12 Nov 2023 | You may be in a pic on our Facebook page. |
sa 4 Nov 2023 | Anna Marchatelli singing at Tuesday's Slate Barn jam night joins Suffolk Ladies. |
we 1 Nov 2023 | October was another busy month for us with 13,382 visitors. |
tu 31 Oct 2023 | The magnificent madness that is the national hill climb championship. |
su 29 Oct 2023 | The clocks have gone back, they'll go forward Sunday 31 March. |
th 26 Oct 2023 | We said this was possible even likely, ask big Al he'll say we did. |
tu 24 Oct 2023 | Weeks back prompted by a text we tried to sign up for flood warnings but apparently we weren't entitled. Despite this on Friday we got a telephone message warning of floods but of course after the flooding had started. |
we 18 Oct 2023 | Over 65s can book a free Coronavirus vaccination at www.nhs.uk or phone free 119. |
fr 13 Oct 2023 | Today is the second Friday 13th this year, not another until September 2024. |
th 5 Oct 2023 | We had over 12,000 visitors last month, the most for a while. |
sa 30 Sep 2023 | We've added (out of order) to our reasons to be cheerful the outstanding opening sequence of Jackie Brown. |
Last day of Casseptember! | |
tu 29 Aug 2023 | ♫ Been a while but we've updated our Reasons To Be Cheerful play list. |
su 20 Aug 2023 | We're giving the house sales page some ongoing attention to make it more manageable. Expect Badingham and Laxfield to get their own house sale pages like Framlingham. |
sa 12 Aug 2023 | What a brilliant arrangement around 1:09:13 (give it time). ♫ |
fr 4 Aug 2023 | The difference between cats and teenagers is some teenagers grow out of the self obsession. |
mo 31 Jul 2023 | Today is the last to use stamps without a barcode though commemorative and Christmas stamps are still valid ... can't keep it simple can they? |
su 9 Jul 2023 | Twelve years ago today, Fish still missed. |
fr 30 Jun 2023 | Entirely through our own fault yesterday's digest regrettably had a couple or so broken links, ironically it was also our busiest digest ever. |
we 21 Jun 2023 | No sooner has summer finally got going than it's Mid Summer's Day, |
sa 17 Jun 2023 | Father's Day tomorrow ... just saying. |
th 15 Jun 2023 | We're 16 today, we've been illegally vaping and deploying the teenage sneer for quite some while now ... |
we 7 Jun 2023 | Ukraine is still at war and now the flooding from the blown up dam, to donate humanitarian aid visit the Disasters Emergency Committee web site. |
th 1 Jun 2023 | No Mow May may now be over but you don't have to mow all your lawn, we're leaving some very long grass that screens our unattractive kindling pile. |
we 31 May 2023 | With 11,000+ visitors this month is our busiest for awhile. |
mo 1 May 2023 | Thursday it's the local elections and you will need photo ID ... surprisingly the Tories didn't also make it obligatory to be wearing a Barbour or green wellies. |
sa 29 Apr 2023 | We were toying with a preemptive lawn mowing this weekend but decided it wasn't really in the spirit of No Mow May. |
su 23 Apr 2023 | 3pm TODAY mobile phone emergency alert test even if it's on silent ... we napped through it:) ... well it is Sunday. |
su 26 Mar 2023 | The year moves on, the clocks have gone forward and if you have a digital camera you probably should update its clock. |
Despite that there Facepack making it increasingly difficult to curate a photo collection we now have a flag football album. | |
mo 20 Mar 2023 | The year moves on, it's the spring equinox today. |
tu 21 Feb 2023 | |
su 19 Feb 2023 | Marcel the Shell better not come near our vegetables! |
th 5 Jan 2023 | We previously supported Twelfth Night as 6 January but who are we to disagree with Radio 3. |
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