Framlingham in 2018

 JOBS  Support Workers/Healthcare Assistants wanted in Framlingham , we could make a good guess at who wants them.

We regret missing the dry ice rink in Leiston earlier this month, it was terrific fun when six years ago a dry ice rink settled in Framlingham for one night only.

Here in Stately Terrace Framlingham two teddies have been moved into an unheated conservatory ... feeling a bit guilty.

Immediately post Christmas (27-30 December) A Crag Path Christmas in the Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh hosted by the Alde and Ore Estuary Trust.  The river Ore runs through near the coast but is little more than a ditch by Framlingham.

 JOBS  Carpenters first and second fix (whatever that means) wanted in Framlingham ... well there is a lot of building going on.

Here's the new zebra crossing in Station Road Framlingham  that caused the road closure Saturday night.  Hasn't got the flashing orange globes (belisha beacons) on top of the poles (poles clearly tall enough to warn aircraft) and the poles have yet to be finished in black and white.

The water leak in Victoria Mill Road Framlingham has been fixed.  A water main junction by the entrance to Stately Terrace was leaking in to a cracked drain and then emerging further down the hill.  Making good remains to be done.

The temporary traffic lights in Station Road Framlingham for a new zebra crossing have gone away this weekend but expect them to return ... three weeks to put in a zebra crossing?

Surprised how many people don't want their brown wheelie bins though perhaps understandable in Stately Terrace Framlingham where some houses don't have that much outdoor space.

A poor  start today to the Armistice Centenary but approaching 10am the steady rain went away and the sun came out.  The Framlingham Remembrance parade assembled as usual in New Road with encouraging involvement from youth organisations.  On the hill was the biggest crowd we've ever seen for the parade, big enough to rather swamp St Michael's churchyard.  Impressive hand made tributes both inside and outside the church ... a fitting tribute.

Lance's flat in Double Street Danebury has been LET.

Starting Monday 12 November and continuing for the rest of the month some overnight road closures and more temporary traffic lights in Station Road Framlingham for a new zebra crossing ... three weeks to put in a zebra crossing?

The green wheelie bins (two months late) have arrived in Stately Terrace Framlingham.  The lids don't close properly but the leaflet says we're not to worry about that, there's a hidden tag (presumably RFID?) to identify individual bins and there will be one more collection of the brown bin.  We asked if deliveries will continue into October and the driver's mate opined It's going to take a while.

No sausage festival in Framlingham next year ... oh dear, how sad, what a pity.

Yesterday the Framlingham  library car park impressively had no parked cars.  It did have a land girl, military vehicles, motorbikes and lots of other stuff to launch John Bridges new book A Suffolk Town in Wartime - Framlingham 1939 to 1945.  We were told there had been a queue all morning for signed copies.

Why are there so few baskets in the Framlingham Coop?  Did they give some to a poor supermarket that had none?

 JOB  Laundry Assistant wanted in Framlingham, there are 23 bullet points in the job description but no mention of the sordid matter of coin.

Parked near Stately Terrace Framlingham an Airstream camper, and temporary traffic lights on the B1116 between Dennington and Fram.

We were planning to visit the Burston Strike School rally today but got distracted by the Framlingham Flyers' 10k.  Some 400 entrants, loads of marshals and helpers, selection race for Suffolk County, the smallest and youngest water person we've yet seen and we heard that the course record was broken, probably by this bloke.  It'll have to be Burston next year then ...

Today's wedding at St Michael's Framlingham was William Hargreaves and Yvonne Jenkins.

1:00pm:  Cash only in the Framlingham Co-op ... unforeseen circumstances.

Perhaps we haven't looked hard enough but in twenty years never seen anyone in the Christian Science reading rooms in Fore Street Framlingham so this doesn't surprise us a lot.

This afternoon in Fairfield Road Framlingham two understandably grumpy walking visitors who had followed the Castle Keep signs and still couldn't find the castle, and keys found in the Fen Meadow.

January 2010 and double nostalgia in Stately Terrace Framlingham, snowing and Phil the postman on a bike.

Natasha Larivee and Peter O'Brien got married yesterday in St Mike's Framlingham, we couldn't stay for them to come out as our bag of shopping wouldn't have survived ... even in the shade.

The Knoll Framlingham  tells that Morrisons now deliver in the area.

Fish was a good friend to this web site and his chums both on and off line, especially in Framlingham.  In 2011 tragically he laid down in front of a train and committed suicide.  The bulletin board software has deleted the tribute to him, we have recovered the tribute which is now permanently at Fish 1972-2011.

How kind that the sun shone yesterday on Framlingham Sports Club's 70th Gala.

Yesterday men were fencing off the footpath that run's along the back of the Castle Keep development in Fairfield Road Framlingham.  The nearby BT hole in the ground that has been there since at least November 2012 has been literally kicked into the long grass.

Duck on a wall in Fairfield Road Framlingham .

May 1962 The Regal Framlingham's cinema (it was in New Road) was showing films you've never heard of except possibly   A Taste of Honey which surprisingly was certificate X ... well it is about an inter-racial under age pregnancy and gay friend so maybe not so surprising.  Intriguingly The Elms Drug Stores in Bridge Street sold handbags and was a corn chandler ...

Our plan today was to lunch at the Flora Tea Rooms but it was closed for a family funeral.  We moved on to the Dunwich Ship which was dog friendly and serving Adnams Copper House gin by default but was starting to look overwhelmed by the many other like us movers on.  We ... more here

JOB  Framlingham  College are recruiting a new head teacher.  It seems like only a week ago that the then newly appointed head Paul Taylor turned up at a Brandeston British Legion art show not wearing a tie.  We weren't surprised or shocked but found it interesting that he had ... or perhaps hadn't.

Appreciative and appreciated Facebook comments about Ladies in Framlingham.

Around Framlingham the River Ore seems surprisingly high for the rain we've had and the Fen Meadow is sodden.  The Framlingham river monitor (where New Road crosses the river at the far end of the College's sports field) sort of supports our supposition that rain when in bed is less noticed.

The spaceman on the Market Hill Framlingham  today was making a promotional vid for this year's Stradisphere. ♫

If you've been around Framlingham long enough you may remember that what's now the Common Room was once Graham King Watchmakers then very briefly an Indian takeaway before Sara and Pete Allin re-opened it as The Munchbox Cafe.  They made it a welcoming meeting place serving very reasonably priced straight ahead food and it soon gathered a fan club.  Tragically in 2006 Pete had a fatal heart attack in the kitchen.  A year later Sara understandably moved on.  We were much saddened to learn this week that Sara still only in her forties passed away in June from breast cancer ... taken far too soon.

Though the Framlingham Barclays' Framlington might be described as viral our 2007 Fuction pic of the adjacent Crown Hotel was only ever mildly infectious.  The sign was for the opening of the converted stables at the rear of the Crown as Reubens.  Round about this time we saw the teenage Ed Sheeran cycle past the historic hotel but not any Ipswich Town footballers.

Crikey!  Is it really five years since the chip van stopped visiting Framlingham ?

The Framlingham  Crown has a ladies night with cocktails tonight, the last ladies night we recall was ten years ago and a bit of an event ...

The temporary traffic lights in Station Road Framlingham promised for yesterday haven't appeared but there's road digging on the Market Hill.  The elderly dodgy power points for the market are being replaced with galvanised new arrangements.  Fishmonger and market supervisor Darren Smith says they are a big improvement and we'd guess safer.

Ah, when the College Road Framlingham closure hopefully finishes at the end of next week it'll be followed by five to six weeks of traffic lights but it's alright because Persimmon Homes sent out some letters ... we didn't get one.

There are temporary traffic lights in Victoria Mill Road Framlingham, so far for no apparent reason.  The two week road closure of College Road by Mount Pleasant for sewer works has not surprisingly caused traffic in Brook Lane but the school crossing lady is still turning out, as she says there are still vehicles that haven't noticed that the road is closed.  Thankfully the temporary lights in Fairfield Road don't arrive until the end of the month.

Happy New Year and the Framlingham  Co-op is open until 9pm tonight but effectively has been stripped of bread.  At 4pm there were just a handful of speciality loaves left .... just like old times eh?