earlier in Rendham

Like we said everything is happening today 4 July, Wilby school summer fayre, Bedfield barn dance, the Rendham fete, the monthly farmers market at the Snape Maltings and Le Tour kicks off with a prologue time trial in Holland.  'Why's it called the Tour of France if it's in Holland?'  'Oh p*ss off!'

There has been a question mark over this year's Sweffling neé Rendham Field Dance but told today it's definitely going ahead second Saturday in July, bar and hog roast of course.♫

The 2015 Alde Valley Spring Festival will be opened Saturday at White House Farm Great Glemham by artist Maggi Hambling .  Ms Hambling is a Rendham resident and creator of the Scallop on Aldeburgh beach.   The festival runs Tuesdays to Sundays for a month with events including farm suppers and festival walks.

Artist Ania Hobson grew up in Rendham and the rural influence is apparent in much of her work.  Starting Thursday she has her second selling exhibition at the Aldeburgh Art Gallery ... conveniently next door to the Golden Galleon chip shop.

The Rendham field dance always was magic and now it's moved a short walk along the B1119 to Sweffling without fail it will continue to deliver the enchantment this Saturday.

Break-ins and they were break-ins in Rendham, Leiston and Framlingham over Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

♫The annual Rendham field dance (this year it's this coming Saturday) can be a truly magic event.  No matter how unhip or embarrassing you think country dancing is we guarantee ... indeed we give you our personal guarantee ... that if you attend you will end up smiling, or perhaps even going the whole piggie and laughing, with pleasure.

♫ Double muso night tomorrow, Slice of Life present Jerimiah Marques and the Blue Aces at the Framlingham college theatre and from 9pm the very excellent Marc Everett at the Rendham White Horse.♫

Chairman of the Suffolk Punch Trust Philip Ryder-Davies talks this Saturday in Rendham about these lovely work horses.

We've always found Tony's song Maria from West Side Story a tediously whining ballad but with the confidently easy tenor voice of Justin Lavender Saturday night in Rendham we discovered it's powerfully enjoyable.  Regrettably we then had to leave but the entirely home cooked (apart from the bread) supper provided by the friends of the church looked spectacular.

The Rendham field dance tomorrow night is an absolute delight, you could end up dancing through ankle deep mist under moonlight ... you'd pay to see that at the cinema wouldn't you ... and this year it doesn't clash with the Maverick festival.

One of the nice things about the Aldeburgh Gallery is it's next to the other chip shop in Aldeburgh, mind you the chip shop closed surprisingly early last Friday so was of no use to those who had stayed late buying at the packed private view of Rendham brother and sister painters Thom and Ania Hobson ... they're both young and talented ... we hate them.

FREE entry bonfire party Rendham Saturday marshmallows and mulled wine.

Tomorrow evening the Cassia String Quartet are playing Haydn and Kodaly in Rendham and there's drinks and a finger buffet too ...  alternatively the Trianon Orchestra have an interesting looking prog at the Snape Maltings including Carmina Burana.

A proper journalist would have found out who was getting married in Rendham yesterday but does it really matter?  The bride looked beautiful (of course) and the horse and carriage (did you know they go together like love and marriage?) looked gothic.

Despite chillingly miserable rain there'd already been a customer for PCSO Kevin Mann at the mobile police station in Walpole when we visited last Monday morning, Nat Bocking had visited to tell Kevin about the handy bus project.  The Suffolk Coastal mobile is one of four in the county and has on board Internet, loads of info, can postcode free bicycles and mobile phones and has a computer linked speed indicator display to monitor traffic speed through a village.  We followed Kevin on to Rendham but the rain seemed even more penetrating so we didn't hang about.