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Have a good one, see you on the other side.

The year moves on, today is the shortest day so in a week or two the days should become noticeably longer.

Wes Anderson and a train in today's nearthecoast Advent playlist.

We now live on Instagram at nearbythecoast so we'll be deleting alsoconsidered tomorrow.

The Pascale Ferran Lady Chatterley is very French, long and involving.  It worried our anorak brain that twice at the spring a metal cup just appears whilst on a third occasion Lady C drinks from her hands ... it's the cross we bear.

The first window on your Advent calendar maybe today but yesterday was Advent Sunday.

The nearthecoast Advent playlist starts with our all time Christmas tv ad.

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 ...

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

Astonishers has overflowed into more astonishers.

Mobile phone emergency warning TEST 3pm this afternoon.

Everybody likes team photos except the photographer.  Players arrange themselves in a line or two that's impossible to fill the frame and sometimes with their backs to the sun.  Half are looking at their mates' phones not the camera and all are nonplussed if asked to do something different.  A notable exception are the UEA Pirates after a 30-6 win and Eastern Sur5val had a moment.

We know at least four of the castings for SHAKE's Akenfield.

You only need 15 minutes to participate in the Big Butterfly Count which ends TODAY.  We keep rescuing butterflies attempting death by head banging in the conservatory and rescued a tiny dragon fly in the sitting room ... how did it get in?

Golf Whiskey Tango a posh boy's country weekend.

Wordle seems to have started using an extended dictionary; Atria (the plural of Atrium apparently), Knell and yesterday Matte.

Desperate to fill the daytime tv schedules programmers are mining further and further back though we have yet to see Hill Street Blues or Ally McBeal.

Who curates supermarket loose lemons?  They are nearly always a bit naff.

If you visit us on a pc or tablet you will see we've had a bit of a makeover with our feed from that there Facepack on the left.

The Constabulary have released a YouTube about courier fraud but crucially it doesn't tell us what Tim Passmore thinks about it.

Today in music shops all over France there's 10% off bass guitars, that's right it's Bass Deal Day.

Fish was a good friend to both this web site and his chums on and off line.  In 2011 he committed suicide ... still very much missed Fish 1972-2011.

Dishearteningly the excellent More Or Less (around 13:56) finds that the first claim in Adam Curtis' SHIFTY is wrong.  Thatcher wasn't behind in the polls and she didn't make that speech then.

♫ If Margaret Thatcher was still PM Kneecap at Glastonbury would need an actor to sing their words.

Very kindly Framlingham Concerts has bought us three coffees.  As they will be taking a new role with the Phoenix Singers we've added a PS link up on the left.

Rachel Reeves seems a fun loving sort of person though we suspect fun does come third after reading the newspapers and gifting handbags or winter heating allowances.

We're eighteen today ... doesn't make our car insurance any cheaper.

The year moves on, the longest day is next Saturday.

Sunday is Father's Day ... assuming you're still speaking that is ... apparently the UK is a late adopter.

Britain is a majority nutter nation ... - Marina Hyde

Having No Mow Mayed the lawn is starting to look a little shaggy but as the Flymo after three decades retired itself we are limited to a little light strimming.

We joined Bluesky last year because it's not owned by the android and immigrant Elon Musk.  If you're so inclined say Hello at @nearthecoast.bsky.social

Though we are No Mow Maying we will be trimming the edges.

If like us you're going to No Mow May perhaps think about getting a cut in soon.

Our thanks to Pocket Money Cards from Parham for the generous coffees.  Pocket Money Cards are a series of educational card games for kids designed to get them off their phones and back in the family, engaged in household chores.

How very kind, the Norwich Devils have bought us a full handful of coffees.  Their next home game is this coming Sunday, a free day out at NR7 0UL.

Bought a first class stamp yesterday ... Paypal offered we could pay in installments.

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

It's Mothering Sunday so if you've ignored our WARNING it's a dash to the garage and hope there's some flowers left ...

The year moves on, the clocks have gone forward. 

Today is not only the spring equinox but also World Sparrow Day.

The coming Tuesday is Shrove and we do like a pancake, in prep we shall be buying a bag of lemons this weekend.

If as so often at the mo' all spoken radio seems too depressing try a little burst of Asian Network ... it usually cheers us.

Aston Martin has just thanked us for our message, we suspect it was an auto-responder ... well so was our message:)

Twelfth Night so time to take down the Christmas decorations.  We're moving the twinkling lights from the bay trees in the front to the bay trees in the back so we can move them back to the bay trees in front next Christmas ... clever eh?

PS: Happy New Year!

An awful lot of shopping days until Christmas but reviewing our Advent playlist we considered a Finnish police festive vid ... it didn't make the cut but Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer did.

Bin collections back to normal tomorrow so if you normally put your wheelie bin out tonight put your bin out tonight.

Today is the driest day of the year so far.