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mo 5 de 09	After four years doing work of national importance dispensing liquid therapy at the Framlingham Station yesterday was bar manager Gareth Clelland's last day, but he's only moving up the hill to become manager of the Crown Hotel.
	Our latest historic sports car racing video for Ginetta Heritage has a lot of incident as Dave Randall in a Ginetta G4 with a modest 1500cc takes on all sorts of V8 beasts.
	Good news for ntc musos, strong rumours that the Ipswich Railway will re-open with the last landlords of the Ipswich Milestone (another muso pub) behind the bar and the Milestone is expected to re-open today with Roy Hunt previously of the Framlingham Crown and presently the Ipswich Station in charge.
sa 3 de 09	The Freedom of Information Act 2000 has obliged Framlingham Town Council to reveal that Chairman Stephanie Bennell will be the next Dr Who (there was always a clue in her holding a thinly disguised sonic screwdriver at tc meetings).
	Bad news for ntc musos, Sandman reports that the Ipswich Railway has put up the boards.
fr 2 de 09	The pedal steel guitar returns to near the coast when BJ Cole is one of Hank Wangford's Lost Cowboys at the Ipswich Manor Ballroom next Friday.

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	Suppose the Framlingham Solar was to close? Eventually those without transport would have to regress to Hunter-Gatherers. Without the close physical association of supermarket shopping H-Gs would soon loose their resistance to disease and would be wiped out when 600 new blow ins move on to the estate Hopkins Homes plan to build on the old Bibbys site. An impossible nightmare scenario? Perhaps, but Suffolk Coastal will no doubt being giving Hopkins Homes permission to do just that next Wednesday.
we 31 de 08	We've just seen a lady near the coast wearing jodhpurs and a Davy Crockett hat. We had a D Crockett hat back when these things mattered to us. It was different from all the other kids' because they got theirs on Roman Road market and Aunt Con had got our two hats trade at the Houndsditch. Two hats because we suffered the fate of all oldest children and the baby sister had to have one too ... bitter? Nous?? The cheap shapeless lump of synthetic fur had a tail on it rather like that of a docked cocker spaniel and infuriatingly no matter how you pulled and tugged you couldn't get it to rest in front of your shoulder like Fess Parker. Now remind us, what did he do afterwards?

tu 30 de 08	Framlingham restaurant Off The Square is offering a £250 reward for information resulting in a conviction about Sunday night's vandalism.
	We haven't had a Name That Tune for a while so here's another country re-work of a 60s hit♫ but there are new rules ... or as near as we ever get to rules round here, and more musical trivia here.
we 24 de 08	It's always been an attractive idea to use the power wiring in your house as a network because it's already there, indeed we had an intercom system that did just that and worked some of the time. Here's a new standard promising 200Mbits/second on the power lines, if it delivers could be very interesting. more pc tips here
	The police are treating two fires early yesterday morning in Wickham Market as arson. more Wickham Market here
	Listen again to the last five minutes of this morning's Radio 3 breakfast show where there's a totally mad (and we do mean totally) bit of Mozart. By the way have you noticed that the volume control on the Beeb's iPlayer goes up to 11? What a tribute.
tu 23 de 08	It's not just the Brandeston/College axis that have unbeaten sports teams. The Woodbridge Abbey U11 girls hockey and U11 A rugby teams, and the Woodbridge School Under 12 A and B rugby fifteens all have unbeaten seasons. Congrats to all of them. more Woodbridge here

mo 22 de 08	Things we learnt travelling on the A12 and A3 this weekend include ... 1. The toilets in the refurbished BP garage on the southbound A12 near Witham are already a tip. 2. The toilets in the Starbucks near Guildford aren't a tip but the floor is pretty soggy. 3. By a pedestrian crossing on the giant roundabout at the junction of the M25 and the A3 there's a newly built mounting block.

sa 20 de 08	On the Wilford Peninsular you know the year end is approaching when the east wind is so strong that the seagulls have to walk to work.
	Duncan has pointed out that Walberswick is getting surprisingly militant. more Warbleswick here
fr 19 de 08	Bright young Scottish thing of this year's Last Night of the Proms Anna Meredith has written the music for Tarantula in Petrol Blue to be premiered at the end of February in the Snape Maltings. There is an open audition call for acting/singing boys aged 14-19 to join the cast of pros and local young people, more info on the bulletin board. more Snape here
	Live music at the Easton White Horse tonight. more Easton here
th 18 de 08	A while back the East African printed the pic Framlingham Station landlord and chef Mike Jones is holding on the left there asking the question is the man in the straw hat the then landlord Fred Rix? We think it's a very safe assumption as the pic below was loaned to previous Station landlord John Bjornson by Fred's daughter Joan and the moustachioed man holding the reins looks very much like the same bloke? An interesting footnote is John B told us when he took over The Station the single storied buildings at the rear were floored with hard yellow Suffolk bricks like the stable floor at the Fram Crown. Over the years grooves had been worn in the bricks by the wheels of carriages, traps and carts stored on them whilst the vehicle owners used the train. All this historic activity prompted Mike and bar manager Gareth Clelland to pay their own photographic homage to the past landlords who have served Fram. (Thanks to 21 on the Market Hill for the loan of the hat.)
	Which one's the Chief Constable? No, really, which one's the Suffolk Chief Constable?
we 17 de 08	December's email news digest has just gone out, to be added to the list just click on Helen and Rose.
	Kate wants to know where can you buy a cub's uniform near the coast? more near the coast
tu 16 de 08	If you can't find your town or village in the navigation bars (like on the left there) then try the AtoZ.
	8:20pm Bulletin board software just updated. more this web site here
mo 15 de 08	Things we learnt in a large town near Chelmsford this weekend include ... 1. The cup is supposed to be off centre, it's the way the saucer is made. 2. The green plastic token you are given at Waitrose checkouts is to vote which charity gets something or other. 3. There are dealers who specialise in Nissan Figaros. 4. Take a torch with you if you want to see anything at the Museum of Childhood. 5. Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles was snapping about the same time as John Self but unlike John Self knew you needed to get closer.

fr 12 de 08
	The Microscoft automatic updates have just run here and now AVG anti-virus is complaining about a missing bin (binary) file, we've seen this reported for Vista but we're running XP. This simple fix at Nathan’s Soliloquy made everything work again ... uh oh AVG's now saying there's an update available, think we'll leave it for a bit. Are you having a problem with AVG?
	Brandeston Hall and Framlingham College have a whole bagful of sporting successes for this term; the 1st XI hockey team, the under 9 hockey team and the under 9 netball A team have all had unbeaten seasons, and 12 year old Kristian Williman has been picked for the under 13 Barbarians, we think as a scrum half. Excellent! more Brandeston here
th 11 de 08	This photo explained next week but if you can't wait more pics here. more Framlingham here

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