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su 10 Apr 2022	Today is National Siblings Day.
sa 9 Apr 2022	L♥VE this, geographically not near the coast but we've had looks exactly like it.
tu 5 Apr 2022	Pleasing that Peasenhall resident and talented artist John Bawtree has renewed his ad with us. In June John will be showing for two weeks in the Framlingham Carousel.
su 27 Mar 2022	Echoing Pancakes and St David doubling up at the month's beginning today is Mothering Sunday and the clocks have gone forward.
sa 26 Mar 2022	Crikey! Wednesday's digest is being surprisingly popular in Sweden, order your free copy here.
tu 15 Mar 2022	Surprisingly last week's Ukraine digest has been more (if only just) popular in the USA than the UK with Sweden coming third. Click Postman Pat's black and white cat to order your free copy.
sa 5 Mar 2022	Crikey! The Norwich Devils Women have bought us a whole handful of coffees, how very kind. Their season starts in May and they host a four team tournament in Norwich and July.
tu 1 Mar 2022	St David's and Pancake Day are double teaming today.
mo 14 Feb 2022	You could prove how much you love us this Valentine's Day by buying us a coffee ...
sa 12 Feb 2022	The Facebook icon at the digest page top seems still broken for some subscribers, please let us know if your getting broken links ... if you don't get the digest click Jaques Tati to receive it free.
tu 1 Feb 2022	Today is the Chinese New Year (it moves about, 22 January next year) and the year of the tiger, in contrast next year it's the year of the rabbit.
sa 29 Jan 2022	Planning a witch ducking this spring? No longer a legal obligation to wear a mask plus you're welcome to promote your event on here.
sa 22 Jan 2022	You may be in a pic on our Facebook page.
mo 17 Jan 2022 Blue Monday	SRN Nearthecoast is in, fiddling with her tick list, pen and prescribing guidelines, hoping there'll be enough PPE but still listening (apparently) at ntc@nearthecoast.com or text 07970 865730
we 12 Jan 2022	Your bippy (sweet or other wise) is your bum, who knew?
mo 3 Jan 2022	We go with Twelfth Night being Jan 6 so Christmas decorations down Thursday.
sa 1 Jan 2022	Happy New Year ... it's gotta be better than the last one eh!
fr 31 Dec 2021	Looking back at 2021: In January temporary traffic lights arrived in Fairfield Road Framlingham ... they're still there. In March the Stackton Tressel town council discussed buying a lectern like the government's one. In May missing dog Griff returned windblown to his Brandeston home. In August there was a road fatality at Halesworth. In October the Badingham Cafe had a Clocks Back Brunch and earlier this month the Rendham Mummers engaged Dracula for the winter solstice.
tu 28 Dec 2021	Our very grateful thanks to Phyllida who bought us a coffee and a biscotti ...
fr 24 Dec 2021	Have a good one, see you on the other side and if you want to give us a Christmas present buy us a coffee.
	Despite Christmas we're all still interested in near the coast house prices eh?
sa 18 Dec 2021	BE WARNED Last posting for Christmas second class is TODAY, Tuesday first class and internationally you've missed all of the planet as last chance was Thursday for Western Europe.
fr 17 Dec 2021	Like we've said before Tuesday is the shortest day and the Rendham Mummers will be marking it with Dracula's Longest Night.
th 4 Nov 2021	Surprisingly shortly after yesterday's digest emailed out it had been more viewed in the USA than the UK ... well this is Suffolk ...
sa 16 Oct 2021	In a probably futile attempt to control our continuingly sprawling Facebook albums we've merged Bury Saints 2017-2016.
su 31 Oct 2021	The clocks have gone back.
sa 30 Oct 2021	Recent(ish) house sales around near the coast.
we 22 Sep 2021	The year moves on, today is the autumnal equinox.
tu 14 Sep 2021	Welcome return of ntc supporter Peasenhall resident and very talented artist John Bawtree. He recently completed a commission of Clarke and Simpson's offices in Well Close Square Framlingham
	Slightly disappointing that last night's Alma's Not Normal was a repeat of the pilot but new episode next Monday 10pm BBC 2.
th 9 Sep 2021	Very pleased Darren Smith who sells fish exotic and otherwise Tuesdays and Saturdays on Framlingham market continues to support us. He gets lots of clicky clicky on his link in our fortnightly(ish) digest. Supporting us explained here.
	Planning a witch ducking this autumn? Up to you if attendees are socially distanced and masked plus you're welcome to promote the ducking with us.
th 19 Aug 2021	The Sweffling printroom gallery is open for the show Open Season with works by artists including Suzanne Cooper, Tassie Russell and Bronwen Sleigh. The gallery is open by appointment during the week.
tu 10 Aug 2021	If you're visiting on a desktop hopefully you've noticed there's been some changes to make smartphone visitors more welcome. If you're on a smartphone welcome, we should be faster, notice the link bar above and superficially and initially Mr Google seems to approve.
mo 9 Aug 2021	This week's Friday is the only the 13th this year.
th 29 Jul 2021	We've actually remembered to update our YouTube Reasons To Be Cheerful playlist.
mo 25 Jul 2021	We've always l♥ved Elvira Mistress of the Dark's tasteful productions.
th 15 Jul 2021	Throwback Thursday: 14 years ago today one time Fore Street Framlingham resident Chris Lane Gray recalled the Hare and Hounds.
mo 12 Jul 2021	In a previous life we were NaTCH Engineering making the NaTKiT loudspeaker production test system. To make our life a little easier we've moved the support web site on board here. Still a load of tidying to do ...
fr 9 Jul 2021	Today is the tenth anniversary of Fish taking his own life, still miss him.
th 8 Jul 2021	Pleased and very surprised we have 2,000+ Twitter followers ... if only just.
tu 6 Jul 2021	Laughing Volkswagen lady added to Framlingham Ladies.
su 27 Jun 2021	House sales around near the coast returns for the first time since the bulletin board closed.
su 20 Jun 2021	A bit depressing that though there was finally some decent weather today is the summer solstice and it's downhill now for the next six months:)
sa 19 Jun 2021	Planning a witch ducking at this difficult time? You can now have 30 socially distanced attendees and you're welcome to promote the ducking with us.
we 16 Jun 2021	If the Tories had been in power when Boadicea/Boudica/Boudicca's mates decapitated a statue of Nero at Colchester they could have been looking at ten years.
tu 15 Jun 2021	Crikey! We're fourteen today, first published 15 June 2007.
th 3 Jun 2021	Flattered we have nineteen hundred+ Twitter followers ... which is nice.
fr 21 May 2021	We're going No Mow May partly to help the environment but mostly out of indolence.
tu 11 May 2021	Our No Mow May truce will not be extended to ground elder ... #BloodyStuff eh?
tu 20 Apr 2021	We couldn't be on Gogglebox because we're too jealous to watch Naked Attraction.
sa 17 Apr 2021	Planning a witch ducking at this difficult time? Only the witch, the witchfinder and since Monday up to four other people including children but not carers, or two households can attend but you're still welcome to promote the ducking with us.
tu 13 Apr 2021	It wasn't just us that thought the BBC was having a funny turn.
mo 12 Apr 2021	Blessed (pronounce the ed as in that there Ed Sheraton) be the BBC, Radio 4 Extra is back.
su 11 Apr 2021	What's happened to BBC Radio 4 Extra?
mo 5 Apr 2021	We've reached eighteen hundred+ (if only just) Twitter followers which is nice.
fr 2 Apr 2021	Turkey has taken over from Germany as the third busiest country reading our digest ... Turkey?!
su 28 Mar 2021	The clocks have gone forward, hadn't realised daylight saving is an issue (down the Wikipedia page a bit).
su 21 Mar 2021	It's the ten yearly National Census today and for the first time you can do it online.
sa 20 Mar 2021	The year moves on, today is the Spring Equinox. .
fr 12 Mar 2021	2 DAY WARNING It's Mother's Day Sunday, it may be lockdown but she'll still expect a card and flowers.
sa 27 Feb 2021	Still tidying ...
fr 26 Feb 2021	After over 14 years the bulletin board has retired, here's why. As an alternative you can post on our page on that there evil Facepack. Lot's of tidying up to do now ...
mo 15 Feb 2021	Pancake Day tomorrow! We've already bought our lemon:)
fr 12 Feb 2021	We thought that palindromic dates had ended for the time being when we moved in to a new decade but today could be shown as 12 02 2021.
fr 22 Jan 2021	Always cheers the day licensing a pic on Alamy. Today it's two pics, vinyl and the Narnia tales in Puffin paperback, to see our stock photography click on ...
th 14 Jan 2021	Yesterday's Suffolkness digest is being surprisingly active in Germany ... didn't know there was a European Suffolk diaspora eh?
th 7 Jan 2021	Things to look forward to are Pancake Day next month, the race to the sun Paris-Nice happening in March and hopefully local old friend the Maverick Festival returning in July (with Terra Lightfoot) especially as there's been a parliamentary festival inquiry.
we 6 Jan 2021	This year we're going with today being Twelfth Night.
sa 2 Jan 2021	Happy New Year ... redundant to say so but let's hope things are getting a little back to normal by the spring ...
tu 29 Dec 2020	Hopefully you had as good a Christmas as the pandemic will allow? Ours was slightly marred by a disappointment.
mo 21 Dec 2020	Thankfully the days start getting longer after today.
th 12 Nov 2020	Friday 13th tomorrow ... but then the sun is shining.
th 5 Nov 2020	It's much easier to vote if you can read and write which is why Trump supporters avoid postal voting.
su 25 Oct 2020	The clocks have gone back.
sa 24 Oct 2020	We now have over 1,250 Twitter followers which is nice.
th 22 Oct 2020	Belatedly we've updated the reasons to be cheerful playlist.
tu 20 Oct 2020	Double grand tours on the telly tonight, the Giro on Quest (you don't have to register but there are adverts) and the Vuelta on ITV4.
we 21 Oct 2020	Perhaps it's time for the bulletin board to here's why ...
th 15 Oct 2020	If it's your 29th birthday this year you're younger than the Hubble Space Telescope.
mo 12 Oct 2020	Surprising number of Kiwis looking at last week's digest the Parham one.
we 23 Sep 2020	A bit unsettling that it's taken six years to update the Suffolk pix page ... time's winged chariot eh?
	To be picky it's parking meters but two metres, it's not the meteric system. While we're here it's less rain but fewer raindrops.
mo 21 Sep 2020	Saturday morning we finally got to hear all of the Pirates Sketch prioritise objectives damn your eyes.
su 20 Sep 2020	The year moves on, Tuesday will be the autumnal equinox.
	Mrs Richie Porte ... eh?
sa 12 Sep 2020	12:42pm: More going away to update, today it's the bulletin board and could be while ... 03:20pm: The board is back but that was annoying, thinking about doing it differently ...
fr 11Sep 2020	12:08pm: We're going away hopefully for just minutes while the server restarts to complete an upgrade ... 12:12pm: We're back.
sa 5 Sep 2020	House sales are still slow but here's a few around near the coast.
fr 28 Aug 2020	We've renamed the roller derby section rolling to make it more inclusive.
sa 8 Aug 2020	As always licensing a pic on Alamy cheers the day, yesterday it was eccentric Scot Ron Geesin.
fr 7 Aug 2020	Planning a witch ducking at this difficult time? Only the witch, the witchfinder and their relatives (which is going to be a lot as this is Suffolk) can be present but you're still welcome to promote the ducking with us.
tu 4 Aug 2020	Last night's Radio 3 seven o'clock mixtape was just unaccompanied singing and included classical, doowop, and world music ... just brilliant!
th 9 Jul 2020	Fish still missed.
mo 15 Jun 2020	We're thirteen today, our face has suddenly broken out in spots.
su 14 Jun 2020	Licensing a pic on Alamy cheers the day and 2019 was our most cheerful so far.
th 4 Jun 2020	How to promote yourself on nearthcoast.com if you're a shop re-opening on the 15th.
th 23 Apr 2020	Joy of joys! Alma's Not Normal (the next Fleabag) has got a series which will make the end of the Stay at Home doubly sweet.
we 22 Apr 2020	Tomorrow is St George's Day, patron saint of England ... Georgia, Ethiopia, Catalonia, Balearic Islands ...
tu 21 Apr 2020	I was under strict instructions to go straight home as Mummy was roasting an ox.
th 16 Apr 2020	Past astonishers have their own page.
we 8 Apr 2020	Understandably a BBC journo thinks Luke Rowe is the story not Chris Boardman ... times winged chariot eh?
tu 7 Apr 2020	The day cheered by licensing on Alamy a pic taken in March 2016 to celebrate the return of ginger nuts after the flooding in Cumbria.
tu 31 Mar 2020	Recall our space exclamations rant? Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawney is doing it. The spaces between words show where the words start and end though this doesn't necessarily apply to Suffolk roadside signs FOR SALE Bare Roothedging. A full stop/exclamation shows where a sentence ends and by placing a space before it you're confusing things ... but we wouldn't break social distancing to argue this.
su 29 Mar 2020	Slightly chilly early morning because the boiler hadn't noticed that the clocks had gone forward.
sa 21 Mar 2020	BE WARNED It's Mother's Day tomorrow and she'll still expect you to do something about it.
fr 20 Mar 2020	Well at least it's the spring equinox today.
mo 24 Feb 2020	Pancake Day tomorrow ...
fr 7 Feb 2020	House sales quiet, well it's that time of year.
th 6 Feb 2020	Worth seeing the BIG pic in this tweet to get the laugh.
we 29 Jan 2020	Thirty five years ago today Scottish comedian Chic Murray passed away and twenty two years earlier the UK was refused entry to the Common Market.
th 23 Jan 2020	A double this Saturday with Burn's Night and Chinese New Year, year of the rat.
mo 6 Jan 2020	Why do some peeps put a space between the last word in a sentence and question or exclamation marks ?! You wouldn't do it with a full stop .
su 5 Jan 2020	It's Twelfth Night so we've taken the fairy lights out of the front garden to be deployed later in the back garden and cleared the mantelpiece by binning those cards that aren't handmade.
	The Church of England is so concerned about Brexit that they've issued a prophet warning ... sorry, we do apologise.
tu 24 Dec 2019	Have a good one We'll be snapping the Felixstowe Christmas Day Dip again. See you on the other side.
mo 23 Sep 2019	Today is the autumnal equinox.
sa 14 Sep 2019	Rural Myth 80: Honest Suffolk folk call Stackton Tressel The Gateway to Eaven, (Eaven is a nearby village rumoured to be even smaller than Little Mutterings.)
th 11 Jul 2019	House sales around near the coast, maybe find out what your new neighbours paid for theirs ... how much!
tu 9 Jul 2019	Eight years ago today we lost Fish, still miss him.
th 4 Jul 2019	Throwback Thursday: Four years ago today it was the Wilby school summer fayre, Bedfield barn dance, the Rendham fete (it's this Saturday and free) and the monthly farmers market at the Snape Maltings.
tu 18 Jun 2019	Canadians eh?
su 16 Jun 2019	The year moves on, longest day of the year Friday.
sa 15 Jun 2019	We're 12 years old today, before you know it we'll be having a gap year to travel.
sa 8 Jun 2019	Overheard a member of staff describe the Co-op as a cult ... truer than they know:)
we 24 Apr 2019	The new Twitter 'experience' seems a bit left handed ... but admittedly cleaner.
th 4 Apr 2019	Throwback Thursday: Five years ago today Hacheston, Parham and Yoxford started community speed watches ... can't say we've seen any recently. Have you?
su 31 Mar 2019	The year moves on, the clocks have gone forward.
th 28 Mar 2019	This weekend it's Mothering Sunday in case you haven't seen any of those tv ads.
tu 26 Mar 2019	Sunday is World Backup Day.
sa 2 Mar 2019	Hollesley gets its own page, and why not?
tu 22 Jan 2019	09:40am: The bulletin board will be unavailable for a bit while it is upgraded. 12:02pm: That could have been easier, in the end did a full re-install, board's back.
fr 18 Jan 2019	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?
su 6 Jan 2019	Just taken down the Christmas cards and in the manner of brown wheelie bins re-purposed the Christmas lights ... some might say a day late.
th 3 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.

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