earlier Framlingham

♫ More Framlingham choral goodness when the Fram Ladies Choir sing 12 noon today in St Clare's.  Free entry and post concert refreshments.

♫ Fine choral concert last night from the Phoenix Singers in Framlingham.  Woman in the audience who might have been the MP for Suffolk Coastal but difficult to tell as Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has decapitated herself on that there Facepack.

♫ Tonight the Phoenix Singers concert Vespers is in the Framlingham College Chapel with tickets here or from lots of local places.  In May the Phoenix join with Beccles Choral Society at the Snape Maltings for Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

Framlingham in the snow for halfway through our Advent playlist .

Out of work ploughboys dance a slow heavy step in a strict and particular fashion and demand money with menaces ... the Old Glory Molly Dancers tour Framlingham Tonight.

In Stately Terrace this morning the birds' water bowl frozen on top ... winter eh?

The Constabulary's knife amnesty bin will be at the Framlingham fire station today and the Halesworth police station Friday.

♫ Yesterday the last Framlingham Concert this year had a full house and despite a fraught journey the Woolf Quartet were outstanding.  The concerts return in March.

What were long time unused allotments at the end of Stately Terrace Framlingham are now the four houses of Saxon Court.

To mark Framlingham Community Library's centenary there will be coffee mornings today and tomorrow plus a time capsule to "bury" in the Hay Loft.  Preloaded free SIMs are available at Suffolk Community Libraries as part of the Good Things Foundation's digital inclusion.

We had a sneak peek of John Bridges' new book Framlingham - A Portrait Through Time last month and were particularly impressed by the flowing draughtmanship of Leonard Squirell's illustrations.  The book launches today 10am-1pm in the Fram Community Rooms.

Particularly liked these ghosts in Castle Keep Framlingham..

In Fram the Coopers née Bridges and Garrard is looking very sorry for itself stripped and empty.

That's a very great pity, local hardware shop chain Coopers will cease trading and its six shops including Halesworth, Leiston and Framlingham close 3pm today.

UPDATE: Harvey was found safe and well last night.

23 year old Harvey Jasper was wearing a black puffer jacket when last seen leaving his Framlingham home Sunday evening.  His black VW Golf was later found towards Dennington, it had been in a collision but was locked and there was no evidence anyone had been hurt.  Any info you can report online or call 101.

At Land Too! in the Old Theatre Framlingham it's difficult to avoid what must be Alexander Costello's conceptual piece You can get lost in the forest.  You can get lost playing ping-pong.  Last chance to see 12-4pm today Sunday.

JOBS  Grape pickers wanted at Shawsgate Vineyard near Framlingham and domestic help for busy B&B Colston Hall Badingham.

Tour of Britain Stage 1 Tuesday in Woodbridge, Wickham Market and Fram.

The reluctance of the Tour of Britain to say when it's happening makes us think there may be some honest Suffolk folk involved worried that too many people might turn up ... possibly from that there Norfolk.  Either the way the first stage is TODAY Woodbridge to Southwold via Framlingham.

Yesterday afternoon behind Studio Sosenka in Rendham Gosia was having a "retirement" party but Over The Moon will not be going away.  It'll still be there on Framlingham's Saturday markets with Gosia helping out the new owner for the time being.

New house sales around near the coast including Framlingham, Laxfield and Woodbridge.  Crikey!  It's been a year since our last one <blush>.

17-year-old Maria has been missing from the Framlingham area since 9:20am yesterday.  Approx 5ft 4ins tall, of slight build and with very long black hair Maria was wearing a pink t-shirt, blue jeans and black fluffy sliders and has links to Ipswich.   Police are concerned for Maria’s welfare and any infor contact Suffolk police via their web site or call 101:

Today's Framlingham Horse Show has been cancelled because of the forecast thunderstorms with yellow warning.

Thursday evening on the B1119 a black VW Golf travelling from Framlingham towards Little Lonely Farm crossroads left the road.  The driver sustained minor injuries but one passenger sustained injuries described as life threatening .  The driver was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while over the drug limit.  Any info contact Thomas.IVES@suffolk.police.uk quoting CAD 358 or you can call 101.

♫ Saturday the Phoenix Singers concert Opera Stars is just that with four impressive guest singers and a programme that includes Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.  Staged in the Framlingham College Theatre tickets online here.

Peter Purves actor, tv presenter and one time chum of Dr Who may find its present iteration too sophisticated but he'll be in the Framlingham Crown 2:30pm tomorrow to tell the St John Fellowship about television ... and there's refreshments.

We like the Hitchcock film The 39 Steps with John Laurie (Private Frazer in Dad's Army) being surprisingly scary.  Framlingham College Senior School stage it live tomorrow and Friday. 

Sunday week Double Street Framlingham noted for its charitable Advent Windows has Open Gardens (with refreshments) in support of the St Elizabeth Hospice.

We will try hard for Conclave TONIGHT in Framlingham but probably not the new Wes Anderson in Aldeburgh on this year's only Friday the 13th.

Last year in Framlingham Charlie Caiger stood in the general election, there was Meet The Author in the library and tragically Bradlaugh's in Fore Street closed.

♫ Yesterday's Charles Tam and Kwan-lam Lau recital had such an impressively good house (including Robert Hitcham's year 5) that it overflowed into St Michael's side aisles, from the back we particularly enjoyed Fauré's Romance.  Framlingham Concerts return in the autumn starting September with Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins Four hands on one piano.

Youthful neighbour sitting outside the Framlingham chippy Saturday waiting for his lunch.  With the price of fish we made the PayPal joke about paying for a fish supper ... he didn't laugh ... it's the way we tell them.

♫ Sunday afternoon Pomegranate's inaugural and free concert by Trio Asteri will include some Poulenc, modern but not too modern.  3pm in St Michael's Framlingham with a retiring collection and refreshments available ... afterwards.

Today is a free open day at the Framlingham Castle Bowls Club ... just turn up.

Tonight in the Framlingham College Chapel what is possibly the Phoenix Singers first concert of the year.  Entente a programme of Elgar and Fauré including his Requiem. ♫

Saturday almost summer on a sunny Framlingham Market Hill.

Yesterday evening by the Framlingham Railway (not the Station) a fish and chip van with a large and sometimes surprising menu ... calamari eh?

Framlingham market fishmonger Darren Smith is on the telly this afternoon.

♫ TRAGEDY!  Man in the Hat 's final show TONIGHT. <sob> <sob>.

Spring shyly peeping out in Infirmary Lane Framlingham.

10am-4pm in the Church Street Theatre Framlingham children's activities Wiggling Words Party! to celebrate Kate Rolfe's new book.

Patrick Spencer MP for Central Suffolk and much of near the coast will be meeting around Framlingham Friday 28th.

"Chemical spill incident" in the Framlingham Chemists has prompted a copiously precautionary emergency services response on the Market Hill.

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.

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.

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!

 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?

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.