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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.
tu 18 Dec 2018	It may have been the Christmas postal deadline Friday for military with static post offices but significantly more terrifying is it's TODAY last posting for second class in the UK ... and a BIG queue in the Framlingham PO yesterday.
we 12 Dec 2018	CORRECTION: We originally reported that the CCU Chargers' honoury captain last Sunday was Ken Matcham. The honoury captain was in fact Joe Waller who is being treated for cancer, our apologies to both gentlemen.
fr 30 Nov 2018	Mightily pleased to welcome back supporter Man in the Hat. Man in the Hat will be entertaining for dancing at the Brandeston Queens tomorrow.
tu 6 Nov 2018	House sales around near the coast seem quiet.
th 1 Nov 2018	Throwback Thursday: Thirteen years ago today we reported that the Framlingham Barclays has made the effort for Halloween.
su 28 Oct 2018	The clocks have gone BACK.
sa 27 Oct 2018	♫ Very happy to welcome new advertiser the Rupa Ensemble an octet of outstanding, stylistically agile singers especially adept in singing founder Julian Marshall's compositions. They will be singing in concert at St Michael's Framlingham tonight.
mo 10 Sep 2018	Today is World Suicide Prevention Day ... we'll be lighting a candle at 8pm.
sa 11 Aug 2018	Yesterday was a big one in the nearthecoast year, the eating of the first home grown tomato ... right up there with true l♥ve.
fr 10 Aug 2018	You can tell pigeons aren't middle class because they never save some for later.
su 5 Aug 2018	As expected/hoped (remember GDPR?) the house sales review around near the coast is back ... that didn't take long for a Hopkins Home to not suit someone.
th 26 Jul 2018	We've added pro racing cyclist Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig in Framlingham to peeps in Suffolk. Not only does the Dane take a very nice pic but we were impressed by her post-race interview at La Course.
su 22 Jul 2018	We may have been a victim of GDPR because no house price reviews for a bit, hopefully fixed and we will catch up next month.
mo 16 Jul 2018	L♥ve it! Half Off If your dress like Trump FREE If your dress like Hillary.
su 15 Jul 2018	Looks like it probably won't rain today St Swithin's day.
su 24 Jun 2018	An Ipswich Cardinal training early this year has joined Suffolk Gentleman.
sa 23 Jun 2018	Fish was a good friend to this web site and his chums both on and off line, especially in Framlingham. In 2011 tragically he laid down in front of a train and committed suicide. The bulletin board software has deleted the tribute to him, we have recovered the tribute which is now permanently at Fish 1972-2011.
th 21 Jun 2018	Hoxne gets its own page.
we 20 Jun 2018	We really l♥ve Jessie Cave.
su 17 Jun 2018	It may be father's day but you're not my real daughter, you can't tell me what to do.
sa 12 May 2018	Very pleasant to welcome back advertiser Framlingham's Kitchen Range & Cookshop.
su 29 Apr 2018	This website in in 2016-15.
th 26 Apr 2018	Throwback Thursday: Eight years ago today Daisy Cooper was canvassing in Woodbridge as Lib-Dem candidate for Coastal Suffolk. She stood for President of the Lib-Dems in 2014 and as MP for St Albans in last year's general election.
su 8 Apr 2018	We have 3,000 plus stock photos on Alamy ... soon to be 4,000 plus.
fr 6 Apr 2018	Appreciative and appreciated Facebook comments about Ladies in Framlingham.
tu 3 Apr 2018	Last week's digest the *Parham/Thorpeness* one prompted the most clicks ever, book yours here... it's free!
tu 16 Jan 2018	Things keep changing, our Facebook page is now at facebook.com/nearthecoast
su 24 Dec 2017	Ok, let's get this over, see you on the other side ...
th 21 Dec 2017	Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day, from now on the days get longer and the world continues on its way to hell in a handcart.
fr 15 Dec 2017	Always a good day when we license a pic on Alamy, today it's the label of an old pair of Levis.
tu 12 Dec 2017	pc tips/the Internet has spawned a social media page.
tu 21 Nov 2017	BBC Radio 3 now has a 30 minute mix-tape 7:00-7:30pm, thankfully jock free so a pleasant relief from the preceding relentless jollity of Sean Rafferty's interaction with the studio guests. ♫
fr 17 Nov 2017	We've got a new header pic on our Twitter feed ... #rollerderby eh?
mo 30 Oct 2017	We've licensed a pic via Alamy to a French publisher ... feeling quite cosmo.
mo 25 Sep 2017	We were wondering why since our move to a new server maintenance things were happening in the morning instead of middle of the night, the server was on New York time:) Clocks go back at the end of next month.
fr 22 Sep 2017	Today is the autumnal equinox, the date can move and next year it's on the 23rd.
mo 4 Sep 2017	Apologies for being a bit silent recently but we've been doing stuff to please Mr Google. He gave us a small pat on the head yesterday ... but we don't trust him.
tu 15 Aug 2017	Messing with PageSpeed again today, we might wobble a bit.
su 6 Aug 2017	At the end of October the clocks will go back ... there's no stopping time's process.
fr 4 Aug 2017	We'll be testing different PageSpeed configurations today so we'll be a bit wobbly.
fr 28 Jul 2017	The server move earlier this month meant Google PageSpeed (does what it says in the name) had to be re-installed ... which is why some of the pix are missing and the bulletin board looks very wrong ... working on it.
we 26 Jul 2017	Still tidying up from the server move earlier this month.
mo 24 Jul 2017	The pic zoom is back, try Eve on New Year's Day 2007 (remember her behind the bar at the Framlingham Station) or this same year misfortune at The Crown. If the Gods of the Internet smile and the pic zoom doesn't go away again there are more Framlingham Ladies.
tu 18 Jul 2017	03:09pm: The bulletin board is back, wasn't that complicated but we kept having to do other stuff.
mo 17 Jul 2017	02:40pm: The bulletin board is about to go off line while we upgrade the software. 08:04pm: It'll have to wait until tomorrow now:)
su 9 Jul 2017	On the sixth anniversary still miss Fish.
th 6 Jul 2017	Today we're moving nearthecoast on to a new and faster server. There could be a little disruption but as Stackton Tressel's wellbeing deliverance officer has taken to saying It's gonna be great.
	Blimey! One of our stock pix licensed for German telly.
th 15 Jun 2017	We are ten today, big school next year.
th 25 May 2017	Welcome back to advertiser Parham Airfield Museum (halfway between Parham and Great Glemham) which re-opened last month for the summer season. It's well worth the trip being free entry, still has the original control tower and an excellent cafe.
sa 1 Apr 2017	In today's East African no mention of football (soccer) team Ipswich Town FC or popular (pop) singer Ed Sheeran.
	We were popular last Christmas.
tu 28 Mar 2017	Twitter was offering to translate our tweet from Swedish ...
su 19 Mar 2017	The year moves on, it'll be the spring equinox tomorrow.
mo 6 Mar 2017	This month's near the coast house sale review is a bit like snow in July ... thin on the ground.
sa 11 Feb 2017	Early Warning: Shrove Tuesday is comparatively late this year, last day of the month.
sa 28 Jan 2017	Today is Chinese New Year - year of the fire rooster.
sa 14 Jan 2017	1:30pm: The bulletin board will unavailable whilst the software is updated. 4:30pm: Hang on, we're still working on it. 4:55pm: The bulletin board is back and mostly working, you may have to do a hard refresh Ctrl +f5 for it to display properly.
th 12 Jan 2017	Tomorrow is the first of two Friday the 13ths this year.
mo 9 Jan 2017	Some of the links on this web site site used to change every three days and link to the most recently changed pages, now they change every day and on a random basis ... yeah, we're pretty random.
su 1 ja 2017	WELCOME to 2017: what a miserable soggy day ... the year can only get better.
	We've fixed /stradbroke+ above so it now shows as Stradbroke+ which is nice except it shouldn't be Stradbroke+ ... the http header on our server seems to have given up returning the last modified date and time.

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