Suffolk in 2010

The Old Glory Molly Dancers (who visited the Framlingham street fayre in 2005) will be dancing at the Middleton Christmas street fair tomorrow afternoon.

House sales in places inc Saxtead, Parham, Monk Soham and Charsfield.

We've been told the Crowfield Rose has been closed for over a year and the Great Glemham Crown has been shut for months.

♫ It's the last day of the Fressingfield Music Festival with a concert tonight from counter-tenor David Shepherd and baroque ensemble Badinage, also tonight Spikedrivers (in the vid) at the Manningtree Red Lion with jamming tomorrow afternoon in the bar.

Next Wednesday Haverhill Arts Centre are showing the BFI restored print of Went The Day Well? (sounds like Shakespeare but isn't).  As a wartime black and white it is a bit Don't tell him Pike! and the Germans are universally horrid but still a powerful film.

The Suffolk archive film festival running through October and November includes Peasenhall, Stonham Aspel, Great Glemham and Rendham.

42 year old Simon Adams has been missing from Wenhaston since yesterday.

On the board a piano FOR SALE in Badingham and the Gentleman Plumber recounts the heady days of the Fram Ram Raiders and the Bruisyard Bruisers.

Admission by pre-booked ticket only to An Evening with Maud in Kenton this Saturday.

Nanny needed in Hasketon.

The Brandeston Queen's wants you to know they are on Twitter, you can buy their chutneys in Leo's Deli Framlingham, Grange Farm Shop Hasketon and Procter's Sausages in The Walk Ipswich, and they are looking for a sous chef or chef de partie.

We are told Saturday's formal opening of the Bruisyard village hall was attended by several hundred, somewhat fewer Sunday.  The hall is intimidatingly pristine with three French windows and a kitchen serving hatch accessing the outside where impressively the lighting is solar powered LED and movement triggered.  The hall stands on a field bought by the parish council in 1995 when the village's agricultural engineers went bust ... what a good decision that's turned out to be ... buying the field that is, not going bust.  More pix on Facebook.

Car related crime in Westleton and Theberton and an altercation (we think it means an argument) in Framlingham Wednesday night.

The Hoo white terrier bitch is called Tilly and she's back with her owners and at 5:30am this morning after nine days Blu-tack came back through her Debenham cat flap feeling a bit peckish!

White terrier bitch found in Hoo, she was running with a black Lab.

Today Peppery Prods are supplying two FREE stages of world and roots in Christchurch Park Ipswich; tonight Walkway (highly regarded by Duncan) are playing the Fressingfield fete, the charity launch of Geraldine Rose's new book at Cretingham golf club and it's the Rendham field dance ... phew!

Letheringham church fundraisers have organised an opportunity Monday to meet Meg Rosoff author of How I Live Now in Easton Village Hall.

Central Suffolk Lib-Dem candidate Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne was canvassing in The Bealings yesterday  but we couldn't find him (poor mobile reception); regrettable because graphically on the Internet he's the invisible man.  Not a wasted afternoon though as The Bealings are utterly charming, a cobweb of tiny lanes that sometimes make you feel you've wandered onto someone's drive, a pub, a railway station ignored by trains since 1956 but it must have featured in a Miss Marple, and a small but perfectly formed church hall.

Coastal Suffolk Conservative candidate Therese (it's French) Coffey lives in Westleton so she can't get Channel 5 or Freeview and no doubt rubbish broadband.  When she asked BT why near the coast broadband is so rubbish so close to BT's research centre they said Oh, their broadband is rubbish too.  We found out yesterday at the Martlesham Black Tiles that Therese has stood as an mp once before, her rescued dog Rizzo is very patient, when she ordered the panini she hadn't realised it came with chips, and is very aware this time round she's not a shoo in.  More pix

Car Boot 10-2pm Sunday in a field on the left as you enter Walpole on the Peasenhall road.

Robert Castellani plays Butley Priory tonight and he's not just all all that hippy shit as Lady KRJ would have it.

Bruisyard parish council in the village hall tonight.

1:00pm: The A12 is closed both ways at Thorington near Blythburgh because of a fatal road accident.

Reasonably pleased with our cd cover pic of Bungay's chicken man Gordon Knowles and it was our pleasure to meet such a genuine bloke.

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NaTCH  found the Cratfield Poacher on Wednesday in the traditional manner by wandering about until he tripped over it and then with the Gentleman Plumber, whose satnav had taken him right to the pub, they approved of Woodfordes Nelson's Revenge (4.3%) whilst Tony stuck to Adnams and there was hare for a main course.  Conversation included the barn owl NaTCH had seen out hunting on his way there and which Fox brother was appearing at the theatre in Bungay.  Folk at The Poacher on third Wednesdays and bands on occasional Saturdays ... if you can find it:)  AfARs from Amanda (Ron wouldn't let her have the satnav) and Nick (boring old work again).  (first proper visit  subsequent lunch  previous lunch)

Gosh!  Ashfield cum Thorpe resident Hugo Robinson competing in cyclo-cross as a youth (what sort of used to be called schoolboys) is having a very successful season including a second place in Belgium and last year sixth in the UK National Championships.