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Suffolk in 2019-15

su 22 Sep 2019	We've added Nicholas Crane on the Framlingham Market Hill to peeps in Suffolk. He presents the tv show Coast so Fram gateway to the stars ... and that there Ed Sheraton.
we 12 Aug 2019	We've added comedian Rich Hall at the Maverick Festival to peeps in Suffolk.
tu 2 Jul 2019	Stallholder Karl on Framlingham's Saturday market joins our Suffolk Gentlemen.
tu 11 Jun 2019	Saturday a 40 minute afternoon walk (dogs on leads welcome) around Peasenhall followed by afternoon tea in support of Mid Suffolk Carriage Driving for the Disabled.
sa 25 May 2019	♫ near the coast's other notable warbler Laura Wright joins our peeps in Suffolk page.
fr 24 May 2019	How very Suffolk:) ♫ She Think's My Tractor's Sexy ♫
tu 16 Apr 2019	The shop being built at the Stowupland Co-op garage is going to be a BIG one.
tu 26 Mar 2019	An Honest Gentleman is theatre from company Stuff of Dreams about Norfolk born gentleman of the road Thomas Easter. The 16 date tour starts Friday in Beccles.
mo 25 Mar 2019	The Constabulary start this year's monthly Safe Rider Workshops for motorcyclists at Martlesham Heath next month 5-6th April. The two day courses includes an escorted ride and lunch.
mo 11 Mar 2019	This year's Women's Tour of Britain will again visit Framlingham but this year it starts in Beccles and ends in Stowmarket.
mo 4 Feb 2019	An actress in the Keeper's Daughter's production of Romeo and Juliet at Wingfield Barn's last summer has been added to Ladies in Suffolk.
sa 26 Jan 2019	The BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket is open again and the Stowmarket Co-op garage has the metal framework in place for a substantial building.
we 23 Jan 2019	It's all the go in and about near the coast, temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with. Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowupland (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket. Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge are copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!
th 10 Jan 2019	We do seem to get through chief constables, Steve Jupp will be the fourth in six years ... just saying.
	The Suffolk joke is There's a bloke in our village who's been to *Norwich* ... well he had to. We rather like Norwich with its market that always reminds us of a souq and the city now has its own section on here.
tu 1 Jan 2019	We could rant about the relentless building around near the coast making rural Suffolk increasingly suburban with little if any improved infrastructure but we'll console ourselves that it's still a pleasant place to live. We have bubbling a slight change to our look and very probably stylish merch. In 2019 no doubt there'll be continued sightings of Ed Sheeran, the East African will report local fury about something or other and there'll be even more building ... wishing you the best for 2019.
su 28 Oct 2018	Immersive horror at Bungay Castle this coming Wednesday by Strange Fascination.
su 12 Aug 2018	Lavender and Jude the wedding dress shop in Stradbroke has moved to Bungay, can't say that's a surprise.
th 19 Jul 2018	Bury St Edmunds may not be near the coast but it is in Suffolk, was the county town of West Suffolk and is home to brewer Greene King and roller rink Curvemotion so it now has its own page, and why not.
mo 9 Jul 2018	♫ A very large tv screen kept the fifth Stradisphere in Stradbroke informed about the football, and Saturday night we got to see surprisingly mature well known trouble makers from Harleston Red Mecca. In the tent Das Fenster and the Alibis were a very theatrical (we like that) rockabilly type trio with stand up bass followed by Sam and the Womp who had a million selling number one in 2012 (no, we hadn't heard of them either). The Balkan influenced trumpet (yes, we know) of Sam etc prompted dancing and intriguingly entertained us.
sa 7 Jul 2018	Land Rover Day at the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Wetheringsett tomorrow.
sa 9 Jun 2018	Last night and tonight at the Fisher Theatre Bungay Monkey Business have a show of Cabaret, Circus and Burlesque for just £12.
fr 1 Jun 2018	This weekend it's the Woolpit Steam Rally which in the Suffolk manner is held in Wetherden and tomorrow there's a jumble sale in Campsea Ashe and though we don't know where or what time the village hall seems an uncertain guess.
sa 5 May 2018	Middy in the War Years tomorrow at Brockford Station Wetheringsett.
we 29 Nov 2017	JOB Mother of two with health problems seeks a Cleaner/PA in Great Finborough the other side of Stowmarket.
fr 19 May 2017	It's six thirty pm and we're changing for dinner ... this may be *Suffolk* but do we look like we drive a tractor?
fr 10 Mar 2017	Laxfield Market is first Saturday of the month, Wenhaston Market is the last Saturday of the month, that's the 25th this month.
we 25 Jan 2017	The Norfolk and Suffolk photographs of Justin Partyka's were a feature of Mary Chamberlain's book Fenwomen when republished by Full Circle. The London gallery Osbourne Samuel are curating an online selling show Close to Home of his East Anglian works and running until 24th February.
we 16 Nov 2016	Around near the coast theatre companies are putting their Christmas shows together. In Fressingfield Sunday Roughcast Theatre were rehearsing a Christmas Carol with an impressive Marley's ghost and a live choir. The show goes on the road next month with visits to Huntingfield, Stowmarket, Hoxne, Southwold and Wingfield.
su 13 Nov 2016	Our link checker is starting to pick up the now defunct local web sites that chose not to pay One Suffolk and the village site that bizarrely now thinks it's 2015.
sa 12 Nov 2016	Hay Fever is a Noel Coward comedy about a totally mad weekend house party in the 1920s. Last night's performance at the Bungay Fisher Theatre was beautifully costumed, had a very decent sized and appreciative audience and some the cast's ott business tempted applause mid-performance. Last chance to see tonight at the Pavilion Theatre Gorleston.
fr 21 Oct 2016	If memory serves about the time PM Tony Blaire's vision for the information superhighway was to dole out rubbish computers in Framlingham the website One Suffolk arrived. An unlikely partnership between Suffolk's constabulary, county and district councils it provided free websites for community organisations, small business and parish councils, From next month Community Action Suffolk will be the new provider and they will charge for the service.
we 31 Aug 2016	You're never going to believe what happened next in Little Mutterings ...
sa 6 Aug 2016	Before satnavs and in north Essex we stopped to ask the way and were told Go straight on at the T-junction ... how very Suffolk we thought. This diversion is in Debenham, pic by Tony Hutt.
fr 8 Jul 2016	Don't know how long it's been there but we've only just noticed that BBC Radio Suffolk has appeared on Freeview channel 720.
we 4 May 2016	Things to do tomorrow should be vote for the Suffolk police crime commissioner (this year the candidates include two women and a green) and perhaps grab your last chance to register for the St Elizabeth Hospice 10th annual Midnight Walk.
mo 2 May 2016	Police have named the Thurston teenager who died yesterday and confirmed that he died from an injury caused by an air pellet.
su 1 May 2016	Two teenagers have been arrested after a 14 year old boy died following a possible firearms incident in Thurston near Bury St Edmunds.
we 13 Apr 2016	We have a friend who grew up in Armagh. On a trip he and his father discovered that in Belfast fish and chips is served with fruit ... a slice of lemon. In a similar manner we have come to terms with fish and chips served with vegetables but went to pieces when in Long Stratton we were offered mint sauce with our mushy peas. We refused but next time we'll pluck up our courage and try.
we 30 Mar 2016	Overheard whilst waiting for a burger at Thetford rugby club He's eleven months, what would he want with some chips?
tu 22 Mar 2016	Sunday the Bury Saints beat the Oxford Saints 75 to 8 in a pre-season friendly but no shame to Oxford as they play in a division below Bury.
sa 19 Mar 2016	Visited the Fisher Theatre Bungay last night for the first time yesterday to discover it's small but perfectly formed with loads of tech and you can take your drink into the auditorium. RoughCast Theatre were presenting the Victorian farce Charley's Aunt. Audience members inevitably asked Are you the official photographer? (No, we don't photograph officials) and then observed They're very good aren't they? ... can't disagree with that. Charley plays tonight in the Framlingham St Michael's Rooms.
fr 26 Feb 2016	The thing about chairman of the parish council James Arnold's highly illegal 460+ firearms stash in Wyverstone (the other side of Stowmarket from near the coast) was the some 200,000 rounds of ammunition and other explosives. Kept in close proximity and a single room if there had been an accident there would have been a fireworks display the village wouldn't forget. Arnold died of pancreatic cancer in July 2014 before he could face charges but last Friday following a related enquiry firearms dealer Anthony Buckland received six years for fraud and selling prohibited weapons.
fr 29 Jan 2016	The Harleston Players present starting tonight six performance of Treasure Island over the next two weekends.
mo 31 Aug 2015	It's not near the coast, it's not even Suffolk but we just love the name, next weekend is the Strumpshaw Steam Weekend.
fr 7 Aug 2015	Well there's a novelty, instead of the usual Suffolk fatuous justification Jokers Comedy Club in Ipswich apologises for this month's show not being up to their usual standard.
tu 16 Jun 2015	Tomorrow the first stage of the Women's Tour starts in Bury St Edmunds, takes in Bradfield St George, arrives in Aldeburgh around 2:00-2:30pm and if it's anything like Felixstowe last year there'll be a free Costa Coffee van.
mo 8 Jun 2015	Two Framlingham brides added to Suffolk ladies.
su 3 May 2015	The first Sunday in May is International Dawn Chorus Day, no events in Suffolk but one in the rather pleasant Sussex village Steyning, pronounced Stenning by blow ins and Staining by non-blow ins.
we 22 Apr 2015	We attended our first election hustings yesterday, it was in the Wingfield Barns and organised by the Country Landowners Association. There was pretty much one of each flavour candidate but only Labour's Jack Abbot and the Green's Rhodri Griffiths (he lives in Parham) standing in Central Suffolk. To be honest we didn't stay long and during that time the audience neither booed or cheered but it was nice to see some election activity.
sa 11 Apr 2015	There are 122 parishes in Mid Suffolk and only nine will bother with an election this May. Stradbroke looks particularly lively with 18 candidates for the 13 seats. It's unclear what Stackton Tressel will do as they don't seem to come under either Central or Coastal Suffolk. Stackton community leader Hamish McEdbanguh commented Sorry, I'm in a hurry.
we 1 Apr 2015	The Vatican City has announced the excommunication vitandus of Hopkins Homes for engaging in joint commercial activities with Satan. An excommunication vitandus barrs Catholics from dealing with the excommunicated which should slow the spread of Satanism within Suffolk.
	A Lowestoft man arrested on suspicion of a Wenhaston burglary yesterday.
tu 17 Mar 2015	It was generally agreed that Michael Lord MP for Central Suffolk was an excellent constituency MP but it would seem his subsequent ennoblement to Lord Framlingham has rather gone to his head.
mo 5 Jan 2015	Suffolk police have seized 400 Superman ecstasy tablets hidden in a public place near Norwich Road Ipswich, Norwich Road is a long road. In the same press release the police report arresting a 19 year old for supplying class B drugs, ecstasy is a class A drug.
fr 2 Jan 2015	Suffolk police have released a pic of the 'Superman' ecstasy tablets suspected of killing at least two in Ipswich and possibly others in the UK including Telford Shropshire.
th 1 Jan 2015	HAPPY NEW YEAR! No doubt in 2015 Andrea Hill will return as County chief executive and sponsorship renames Suffolk as Hopkinshomeshire, it'll be cheapest to park in Essex and use helicopters to travel around ntc, finally roller derby in Ipswich and perhaps we get a record 20,000 visitors in a month, we abandon VeganB46 but still drop a dress size and despite the continual house building and bureaucratic BS near the coast remains a pleasant place to live ...

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