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The year moves on, it's the spring equinox Thursday next week.

Suffolk Overheard in Benhall:  She's from Sax and has brought her big city ways with her.

7-8pm Tonight ITV4 highlights of stage one Paris-Nice the race to the sun.

Thorpeness on the telly.

Last century it was maybe a year before we realised our first mobile could text.  Similarly we vaguely knew autofocus could be fine tuned but we didn't know two of our camera bodies had these presets.  Tempted to dismiss as useful if all you snap is tennis but maybe we're just fearful of the new ...

Sunday fortnight at the Stonham Barns a model railway exhibiton.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emailed out at lunch time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

Little Mutterings parish council are disappointed that their fund application to the government's Plan for Neighborhoods was rejected.  The pc wanted £2,948.62 to start a youth club in the telephone box.  When an East African journo pointed out that there was nobody under twenty living in Little Mutterings the parish clerk replied that only eight residents received the state pension and there were lots of teenagers in nearby Stackton Tressel and some of them wear trousers.

The year moves on, the clocks go forward at the end of the month.

♫ We've been to the Cambridge Folk Festival just once and to see French Canadian band La Bottine Souriante.  It struck us that many of the bands didn't seem that folkie.  We might have put Ciderhouse Rebellion in the same bag when they played the Wingfield Barns Friday week but regrettably CANCELLED.

More disappointing news from the Norwich Devils, they've had their goal posts vandalised stretching their already modest means.  Help out at GoFundMe.

We've enjoyed playing mahjong solitaire as a computer game so could be tempted by a mahjong beginner's taster at Framlingham Library 2pm Friday after next.

Regrettable but understandable Norwich Devils Women are not league competing this year though there could be home scrimmages and friendlies.

SRN Nearthecoast is in, doesn't feel any government has treated nurses fairly, is fiddling with her tick list and clicky pen but still listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com.

♫ This summer's Maverick programme continues to grow with the Hackney Hill Pickers joining the Hackney Colliery Brass Band in East London irony.

After yesterday's lunch time concert in Aldeburgh we were considering a look at Ballroom Arts Winter Show but we weren't sure where it is and our iPhone had an attack of the vapours.  The show runs for a further fortnight so still opportunities.

At the Bell Gallery Bungay the four artist show Form and Colour ends today.

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.

A ways off but Friday 4 April tutors Amanda Clayton and Ruby Banazi will host a beginners' lino cutting workshop at the Sudbourne Print Makers.

The coming Tuesday is Shrove and we do like a pancake, in prep we shall be buying a bag of lemons this weekend.

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.

Thursday night in Dennington village hall the Little Oaks quiz is back with a cash prize, bar and a sharing platter to pre-order.  Tickets £5 each, pay cash or card on the night.

Astonisher No.65: In 1949 Ealing Studios released the comedies Whisky Galore!, Passport To Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets ... all three in the same year!  They never really had to do anything else again though (in colour) The Titfield Thunderbolt four years later.

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