earlier Framlingham

Show this weekend by artists Diana Capstick and Katy Peart at the Black Barn Studios on the Saxtead Road Framlingham.  Private view 5-8pm tonight.

Socialising in Stradbroke continues next month with the return of Horse Race Night in aid of the cricket club.  Later on a fish and chip van outside, could very well be the one that used to serve Framlingham on Thursday nights.

♫ TRAGEDY!  Man in the Hat is retiring later this year!! <sob> <sob>  The first part of his farewell tomorrow night in the Framlingham Railway.

In Framlingham the hole in the Fairfield Road pavement has been filled in so perhaps there'll be illumination about the mystery post by the Fen Meadow bridge.

After ten days the BT mobile signal is back in Stately Terrace Framlingham.  We survived by getting text One Time Passcodes via wifi.

The Sunday afternoon after next Framlingham Library is hosting in the College Theatre Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay.  To raise funds for a children's library it's a showing of the BBC film A Writer's Suffolk followed by author Robert Ashton in conversation.

Thursday morning Police Community Support Officer Christian Hassler was hosting a surgery in Framlingham Library,  He's through the doorway on the right with a table of useful freebies and children's games.  He'll be back first Thursday of March the 6th.

Five years since John Grose moved out of Station Road Framlingham and still empty.

Pantomime Aladdin It's Lamptastic! in the Framlingham Community Rooms Saturday.

The seeds are out in the Framlingham Co-op so spring must be on the way!

♫ Tomorrow the Phoenix Singers are hosting an all day Choral Workshop at Thomas Mills School Framlingham.

 JOBS  Robert Hitcham's Framlingham is looking for kitchen staff for a 2.5 hour day.

Throwback Thursday: 16 years ago today the Community News failed to credit some of our photos (when we were still NaTCH) or mention the sordid matter of coin ... plus ça change eh?

The Advent Windows in Double Street Framlingham raised £1,591.68 for the Fram First Responders and Médecins Sans Frontières.

What was the British Legion in Albert Road Framlingham and the first home of Film@Fram is FOR SALE by auction and looking rather sorry for itself.  Here it is New Year's Eve 2008 with the intermission buffet.

Last chance tomorrow to see the as always amusing and enjoyable Advent Windows in Double Street Framlingham.  This year QR codes for donating to the selected charities.

We encountered in the early hours The Outrun read on BBC radio by the lovely voice of Tracy Wiles.  We then read Amy Liptrot's autobiography of alcoholism, wild swimming and Scottish islands.  The memories are sufficiently sweet we didn't want to spoil them by seeing an unsatisfactory film but Mark Kermode's review has moved us to see it @ Film@Fram Wednesday.