earlier in Woodbridge

♫ The Suffolk Singers fifth fundraising concert tonight in Woodbridge is in aid of  the Teenage Cancer Trust.  Directed by the vivacious Claire Weston a varied programme of easy-listening with informal table seating and a ploughman’s supper it unusually as of Tuesday hadn't sold out.

A coastal rowing club is forming in Woodbridge next year ... now that would involve gigs?

 JOBS  Wanted a Groundcare and Hire Salesperson in Framlingham and in Woodbridge a Workshop Manager for  Bronzework a small firm making bespoke metalwork.

Very pleased to welcome back supporter Unfolding Enlightenment who have another Mind Body and Soul in Woodbridge Community Centre the Saturday after next.  If you would like to join the happy band of our advertisers £9.95 gets you two months, email us or more info here.

House sales continued to sparkle in Woodbridge during the summer ... or maybe it's just a large town by the standards of near the coast.

Laying new track will close the Ipswich-Halesworth rail service for nine days from this Saturday the 29th and the Ipswich-Felixstowe for the next two weekends.  Ipswich-Halesworth stations affected include Woodbridge, Wickham Market and Saxmundham, there will be replacement bus services for both lines.

♫ A mature Punk/New wave band in the Woodbridge/Framlingham/Ipswich axis is looking for a singer, they promise not to take requests.

Unfolding Enlightenment's Mind Body and Soul today in Woodbridge.

SOLD OUT Tomorrow evening in the Woodbridge Community Centre the Suffolk Singers present a concert to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.  Informal seating with a light supper plus jazz from The Jam Sandwiches.

The Woodbridge School sports hall is LARGE but  was needed yesterday afternoon for all the friends and relatives at a Suffolk Police cadet parade.  A sea of white shirts but also some dark blue worn by emergency services cadets who seem to be proto fire fighters.  PCC Tim Passmore assured the hall that in this atmosphere of cuts funding would continue for the cadets because they are the future ... can't disagree with that.

♫ We always had a sneaking regard for Gilbert and Sullivan and Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy turned the regard into open admiration.  The Ipswich G&S Soc are performing Pirates of Penzance in the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge (that's the one in Woodbridge school) until Saturday.

Chief Constable Gareth Wilson and Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore meeting and greeting in the Woodbridge Thoroughfare 11am-2pm today.

Carl Hammond missing from Woodbridge was found safe yesterday afternoon.

Police are concerned for the well being of 34 year old Carl Hammond missing from Woodbridge since Monday.

That's regrettable, the Woodbridge Motor Cycle Club are no longer holding grass track meetings.  A while since we've been but we liked the mud splattered starts and the curiosity that sidecars race clockwise and singles anti-clockwise.

♫ Tonight a musical choice, Walkway back at the Saxmundham Social Club (they must like them) or the Kingfisher Sinfonietta with a concert of Mozart and Mendelsshon at St Mary's Woodbridge.

 JOBS  As of today there seem to be care (mostly night) assistants wanted in Eye, Framlingham, Halesworth, Saxmundham and Woodbridge.

Woodbridge + District (+ District a slight improvement on the patronising and surrounding villages) safer neighbourhood team proves it is + District by having an all welcome priority setting meeting tomorrow evening in Wickham Market village hall.

The mobile police station was in the Woodbridge Wyevale car park today handing out purse chains and a placcy car thing that advises Remove your valuables and gives you somewhere to display your parking receipt.  PCSOs Graeme Hawkes and Marie Smith had a steady flow of customers and it's nice to see the police out and about.

Not surprisingly no remaining free tickets for Friday's lunchtime Radio 3 concert at the Snape Maltings but in the evening and Woodbridge a Friends of the Earth Musical Soirée with party fare, how glamorous and just a pound to get in.

The Woodbridge Anchor gets a nice review on the Telegraph web site, that'll please Vernon (if he's still the landlord) ... maybe he'll stop calling us Geoff.

House sales around near the coast including Kettleburgh and Worlingworth with some activity in Saxmundham and Woodbridge.

Earlier this week a Land Rover Defender in Wickham Market had a window smashed and items stolen ... bit concerning this crime is being dealt with by PC Gemma Spink at the Felixstowe station, not Woodbridge?

House burglary Saturday in Warene Close off Brook Lane Framlingham and attempted break-ins in Woodbridge Monday and Tuesday.

♫ The Suffolk Singers with music director Claire Weston will perform A Prelude to Christmas at St Mary's Church Woodbridge and 7:30pm tonight 13 December.  Tickets are £10 (to include refreshments) and can be purchased by calling 01473 635525 or on the door.

Although admission to Sunday's Woodbridge Mind Body Spirit Festival is £3.50/£2.50/£1 there are free goody bags to the first 150 visitors.

Armed robbery at a Woodbridge jewelers yesterday.

House sales near the coast this summer ... Woodbridge looks lively.

We've picked up three new faves on Flickr; Halloween in Aldeburgh, laptop on the line and our easily most viewed pic Hippy Jo.  You may remember Jo had a Fairtrade clothing stall on Framlingham, Saxmundham and possibly Woodbridge markets but for over two years now she's had a shop in Halesworth selling Fairtrade clothing.

It's just not the Woodbridge Wyvale and Deben Inns that think it's Christmas already, when we were in Norwich Saturday we saw a banner advertising Festive Lunches.  Even more uncomfortable today is last day posting surface mail to Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and New Zealand for Christmas!

House sales near the coast over the summer seem most active in Woodbridge.

On the board suffolkbornandbred expresses total disbelief it's already Christmas at the Woodbridge Wyevale and before he's even had his summer hols.

Last week a large lump of tools stolen from a Chillesford workshop and a Woodbridge house burglary, a Walberswick caravan set fire to Sunday. and over £2,000 of jewellery burgled in Aldringham yesterday .... quite a crime wave by Suffolk standards.

Next month and for what remains of this month golf clubs across near the coast are offering four week courses for £20, there's one starting today at Ufford and upcoming at Woodbridge, Stonham Barns and Southwold.

From October you won't get a disc when you renew your road tax and from April 2016 owners will be legally obliged to microchip their doggie chums.  In a step towards this the Dogs Trust are offering free chipping 11:00am-3:00pm tomorrow at the Woodbridge King's Head ... that's at the top of the Market Hill.

Some house sales in Framlingham, Earl Soham (including what was Thorolds the corner shop), Woodbridge, Saxmundham and Aldeburgh.

The second coming of the resurrected Woodbridge carnival will parade tomorrow from 12pm followed by events on the very excellent Kingston Field hidden away behind the swimming pool.

Throwback Thursday:  Six years ago today police made their third appeal about missing 73 year old Woodbridge man Anthony Smith ... it didn't end well.

That Woodbridge ley line is still at it and last week attempted burglaries in Leiston and Sweffling.

Remember there's a ley line or something running through Woodbridge that makes peeps lose rings?  It's happened again.

Yesterday saw a St John Ambulance ambulance with its blues going coming the other way on the A12 near Woodbridge, didn't know they had blues, presumably neither did the car in front of them not getting out of the way.

Next week the inaugural women's Tour of Britain flirts with near the coast twice.  Stage 3 Felixstowe-Clacton on Friday passes just south of Woodbridge and the final and fifth stage on Sunday passes to the west of Stowmarket to finish in Bury St Edmunds.

A bit Thelwell but also impressive that the riding team from the Woodbridge Abbey prep school qualified for the regional championships at their first attempt.

Stephen Cole is in his last year as headmaster at Woodbridge School and as part of the school's continuing and hefty commitment to music a concert of past and present pupils was held in the Snape Maltings' Britten Studio.

Pupils of the Woodbridge prep school The Abbey raised over £400 from a fancy dress day and cake sale for the charity Canine Partner.  Canine Partner trains dogs to help those with disabilities by picking things off the floor, working switches, pressing buttons and even emptying washing machines.

A cased tool set found in Woodbridge Monday.

The next Wickham Market flower club meeting is Thursday fortnight the 27th and here's what happened at January's.  Somewhat sooner the Woodbridge safer neighbourhood team is meeting Thursday in the Wickham village hall.

A pair of Dr Dre headphones found in Quay Street Woodbridge.

Tomorrow evening the Suffolk Singers present My Spirit Sang All Day in Woodbridge Community Centre, in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust and in memory of Michael Balaam a former chairman of the choir.

UPDATE 1:46pm:  SOLD OUT

Woodbridge police station is holding a watch found in Wickham Market.