near the coast

East

Suffolk

 (District) Council's paid service (£45) collecting large items for disposal started up again this week.

Again

near the coast

 bin collections have been CANCELLED for today.

Understandably bin collections around

near the coast

 have been CANCELLED today as well.

01:00pm: With power cuts (Leiston is out at the mo') around

near the coast

 caused by the Beast from the East's younger brother you are likely to find this UK Power Networks' incident map useful (enter your postcode).

The other

Walpole

 has the misfortune to be home of Ken Burns he of the relentlessly sentimental background music and equally relentless pan/zoom across a still image.

Last week two dogs worried pregnant ewes at

Friston

.

Pleasant Green is

near the coast

's own Sleepy Hollow and is between Orford and Rendlesham.

Police are reminding customer facing staff to keep their phones secure at all times after receiving seven reports of ‘distraction thefts’ since the start of October.  The offenders will enter a premises with a customer reception area such as a hairdressers or hotel and distract staff by asking for help or directions and waving papers around.   They will then take the phone from the reception desk/counter whilst the member of staff is distracted.

Very sorry to hear that Cliff Quay brewer Jeremy Moss passed away last Friday 4th September,

Last year the walk raising funds for the Mid Suffolk Carriage Driving for the Disabled was in Peasenhall.  This year it was going to be a dog walk in

Monk Soham

 but sadly it's CANCELLED.

Roadside verge volunteer wardens rake and monitor verges as wildlife reserves.

The

Bentwaters

Cold War Museum has thought about re-opening and decided leave it until next year.

Not surprisingly with the current unpleasantness house sales around

near the coast

 are slow but most active in Saxmundham.

The

Bentwaters

 Cold War Museum is thinking about re-opening next month, we certainly enjoyed our visit.

Not surprisingly August's Maui Waui festival near

Theberton

 has been postponed until next year.

♫ Man in the Hat's three previous virtual hoedowns have triumphed with a sea of appreciative comments.  He's doing it again Friday ... PPE not needed but you are advised to social distance from your device.

We visited Katie's Garden

Newbourne

for the first time last week.  A staff member asked Are you trying to leave without paying?  We were third in the socially distanced queue for the cashier and exit and empty handed because we'd put our three tumbler tomatoes down whilst waiting.

HM Coastguard are warning that the

Bawdsey

 Cliffs are dangerous because of erosion.

A man has been charged with the

Darsham

and Framlingham petrol station burglaries and ramming a police car.

If not a crime wave around

near the coast

at least a ripple.  Last night both Darsham and Framlingham petrol stations were burgled, Friday a quad bike was stolen in the Yoxford area and about the same time two expensive looking bicycles were stolen from a Woodbridge shed.

Suffolk, or at least Co-ops

near the coast

, have rediscovered the ice bucket challenge.   Yesterday in front of a few socially distanced onlookers a very good handful of Framlingham Co-op staff were cheerfully dunked by their co-workers.  If we'd paid more attention we would know which charity benefitted but we do know Wickham Market Co-op have been challenged to do the same thing.