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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.

The tractorati quiver with antici ... pation for the digest that emails out lunchtime today.  To get your free copy click on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

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.

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

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.

Anorak Alert No.63: Surprisingly Peter III Emperor of Russia only ruled for the first half of 1762.  In series 1 episode 5 of The Great the royal foodie speaks of something involving loganberries.  The fruit was first crossbred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan .. picky eh?

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

#FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?

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

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

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

Throwback Thursday: 19 years ago today people were voting in the St Michael's Rooms Framlingham, they didn't need photo id or even their polling card and a teller was seated outside.  For the local elections a notice by the poll entrance about tellers (see 1.23 here). JUST VOTE!

 VOTE  Remember to vote you need photo id.

Anorak Alert No.62: We like Tim Hartford the undercover economist and Radio 4's More or Less but last night in Skint he reckoned the world wide web is a British invention.  Well Tim Berners-Lee is British but he made the first pass at the web in Switzerland whilst working for CERN a European organisation.

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

A shortcut we stumbled across that seems to be mouse only.  In web browsers Chrome, Edge and Firefox hold down Control key and rotate the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.  Don't forget Ctrl + wheel to get back where you were.

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: (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.