earlier on this site

Ok, let's get this over, see you on the other side ...

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.

Always a good day when we license a pic on Alamy, today it's the label of an old pair of Levis.

pc tips/the Internet has spawned a social media page.

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. ♫

Spitfire Deskfan in wooden kit form no glue required ... Christmas eh? 

We've got a new header pic on our Twitter feed ... #rollerderby eh?

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.

Today is the autumnal equinox, the date can move and next year it's on the 23rd.

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.

At the end of October the clocks will go back ... there's no stopping time's process.

We'll be testing different PageSpeed configurations today so we'll be a bit wobbly.

Still tidying up from the server move earlier this month.

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.

03:09pm: The bulletin board is back, wasn't that complicated but we kept having to do other stuff.

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:)

On the sixth anniversary still miss Fish.

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.  

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.

We were popular last Christmas.

The year moves on, it'll be the spring equinox tomorrow.

This month's near the coast house sale review is a bit like snow in July ... thin on the ground.

Early Warning: Shrove Tuesday is comparatively late this year, last day of the month.

Today is Chinese New Year - year of the fire rooster.

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.

Tomorrow is the first of two Friday the 13ths this year.

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.

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.