Dennington teens

Dennington when it appeared to have at least two policemen of its own, the Earl Soham Slog which doesn't seem to have much to do with Earl Soham and the Aldeburgh town steps half a century apart.

Last night for the Dennington WI charity fashion show we had to park in what was the post office as the village hall car park was jammed.  Inside impressive that Dennington has dinner jackets and bow ties to dress a half dozen stewards, indeed one steward told us that as a young man he was always in a DJ at weekends.  The models were dressed from the Framlingham hospice shop so we expected shabby chic but there were £500 shoes and what appeared to be a brand new Christian Dior handbag.

An Eastern Counties bus outside the Dennington Queen's Head, CF Channing of

Double Street Framlingham, Earl Soham when you could walk down the middle of the road and with 1950s big hockey sticks a Framlingham College hockey team.

The Dennington tennis court was looking pretty sad when we visited four years ago and now it looks like qualifying for free counselling.  To cheer it up the sports club are having an auction tomorrow in the village hall with viewing tonight.  Opportunities include a brand new pedal tractor, a male? Venus de Milo, old bowls that get antique dealers on tv excited and a big yellow thing.

While appropriately on the first of this month we were failing to find the mountain biking in Tunstall forest the Central Suffolk Rabbit and Cavy show in Dennington village hall judged best pet to be Katelyn Potter's rabbit (on the left), best rabbit by Rae Fewkes the Sekwef stud, and best cavy by Pig `n` Mix Cavies.

This postcard of Dennington shows that around 1943 the village didn't go as far as having a garage but the shop sold petrol, hand pumped of course and though perhaps we should know where the windmill in Sweffling was we don't.

This fluff of incredibly soft white fur is Kingston; Holeigh his teenage owner likes to give her rabbits names with royal connections.  Last Sunday in Dennington village hall Kingston came second in the Netherland Dwarf Red Eye White U5(months) class, Holeigh said she hadn't expected him to do any better as he's still very young.  The Central Suffolk Rabbit and Cavy Fancy are back in Dennington Sunday 1st April.

Fitness classes start this Thursday at the Dennington village hall with a £2 taster session, the similar is happening in Peasenhall village hall on Saturday mornings.

In January at the Dennington village hall the Central Suffolk Rabbit and Cavy club are holding a box and pet show, everyone welcome but no cats, ferrets, presumably foxes and definitely no dogs.  More info on the board soon.

Jon Sullivan talks about Saxtead Mill tomorrow night at the everybody welcome WI meeting in Dennington.

The Badingham church collection box was broken into some time last week and three cars were scratched in Dennington Saturday night.

Pilates at Dennington VHall Tuesday nights ... alright, if you like foreign food.

The annual Inter-village Bloodsports have started, hosted this year by Dennington.

The ladies of Dennington testing their antiperspirant at the beginning of last century.

Farctum/Grethic didn't go as far as lipstick and earrings but she did give quite a makeover to her lane's ditch in the rarely visited Dennington-Saxtead Triangle (it's like the Ambridge-Penny Hassett Triangle, the phones only occasionally work as the residents keep making bangles out of the wires).  Not surprisingly her net on a stick turned up a lot of discard but four (yes 4) brandy bottles?

Intriguing if expensive C19th Dennington ephemera on ebaY.