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We've started a new Instagram account more usefully named nearbythecoast.

♫ Last night Dr Feelgood rocked the Halesworth Cut with a full house that was just bursting to dance and did.  More Cut concerts early in the new year include Tom Robinson, Andy Fairweather Low and The Low Riders, and the Soft Machine.

Tomorrow UEA Pirates play Oxford Lancers, it's the Pirates last home game this year.

♫ Next Friday afternoon in the Debenham Leisure Centre it's dancing and quizzing with Elvis at a 1960s Party! (period dress optional).

 JOB  Brandeston Parish Council needs a clerk for a year to cover maternity leave.

Starting Monday there are overnight closures on the Orwell Bridge.

The tractorati quivered with antici ... pation for the nearthecoast digest that emails out this afternoon.  Get your free copy by clicking on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

We fulsomely enjoyed on the wireless Hugh Bonneville performing A Short Gentleman which includes Aldeburgh as a setting.  Saturday fortnight in the Halesworth Cut there's a one off of the comedy performed by Michael Fenton Stevens who for us will always be Radio Active's Martin Brown from hospital radio.

♫ Yesterday the last Framlingham Concert this year had a full house and despite a fraught journey the Woolf Quartet were outstanding.  The concerts return in March.

An unexpected result (to us at least) of Coopers hardware chain suddenly ceasing to trade was Leiston lost it's only post office.

Planning a witch ducking this winter?  Or perhaps a trial by fire for an estate agent?  You're welcome to promote it on here.

A property on Great Back Lane Debenham was entered between Wednesday 29th October and Tuesday 4th November by prising open a rear window and items stolen.  Any info contact police reference 37/62709/25, you can call 101.

Already Christmas is making us ill at ease but Sudbourne Printmakers must be braver as they have two weekend shows coming up with complimentary mince pies and mulled wine.

What were long time unused allotments at the end of Stately Terrace Framlingham are now the four houses of Saxon Court.

 JOB  Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter is recruiting a case worker, apps close 17 November.

Support for Windows 10 ended last month but you can extend it for free.

To mark Framlingham Community Library's centenary there will be coffee mornings today and tomorrow plus a time capsule to "bury" in the Hay Loft.  Preloaded free SIMs are available at Suffolk Community Libraries as part of the Good Things Foundation's digital inclusion.

Suffolk Truths No.107:  Honest Suffolk folk will usually turn out for a Remembrance Sunday parade.

We know about walking football but Saturday mornings at the Debenham Leisure Centre they have walking netball.

♫ Tomorrow in the Sweffling hut An Evening with Jane Austen with a supper.

Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

Our thanks to the George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham for a generous handful of coffees.  Their winter show has work by over 30 artists and makers and includes paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, wood, jewellery and more ...

Number 12 on our Reasons To Be Cheerful is La Fille Mal Gardée.  As an alternative to bonfire night tonight you could see the ballet at 7:15pm and Aldeburgh Cinema.

Suffolk Overheard:  I'm a battler me ... no battler not butler!

St John the Baptist Badingham is Suffolk's most at risk church.  To help fund it's restoration there's a bookshop and 10-12 Saturday morning it's having a SALE.

♫ Don't expect the Sweffling Jam Parties to return but Friday the 21st Slate Barn Arts will be hosting Concert for Gaza.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will give you that nice warm feeling of having done the right thing.

We had a sneak peek of John Bridges' new book Framlingham - A Portrait Through Time last month and were particularly impressed by the flowing draughtmanship of Leonard Squirell's illustrations.  The book launches today 10am-1pm in the Fram Community Rooms.