earlier in Rendham

Friday week Polly Williams' solo show at Studio 90 Rendham starts and then runs for three weeks.  With titles including Things That Are Not OK To Eat In The Cinema and Hipsters Sur L'Herbe we'll be giving it a visit.

A show of charcoals, drawings, sculpture, mixed media and paintings by multiple artists on the theme Talking About Nudes at Studio 90 Rendham until the 28th July.

A show of charcoals, drawings, sculpture, mixed media and paintings by multiple artists on the theme Talking About Nudes starts tomorrow at Studio 90 Rendham and runs until the 28th July.

We adored the Rendham Mummers' winter solstice celebration last year, the Mummers are marking the summer solstice with Oh, We do like to be beside the Seaside! in the garden at the back of the Sweffling White Horse 7:30pm tonight.

Saturday artist and Rendham resident Maggi Hambling will again open the Alde Valley Spring Festival in Great Glemham.  At previous openings Ms Hambling has been highly entertaining (especially the aglet/Michael Gambon story) and given a faintly surrealist edge as she spoke from the raised bucket of a JCB.

The Holly Rees exhibition opened at Studio 90 Rendham Friday evening and the carefully executed paintings clearly showed the young artist's interest in landscape.  Her show continues until Sunday 14 May, more info here.

Painter and artist Holly Rees has a solo exhibition at Studio 90 Rendham (next to the Juniper Barn) starting tomorrow and running until 14th May.  Open night is 6:00-9:00pm tomorrow and all are welcome.

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 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.

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.