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Life Skills No. 61:  Complaining to Tesco is not easy, the Customer Services counter is often poorly informed and unhelpful and there's no easy way to communicate with the monolith.  What did work for us when they owed us £9 was Little Helper via WhatsApp, persevere and AI will pass you onto a person.

Long term planning: pantomime Aladdin It's Lamptastic! in the Framlingham Com Rooms First of February.

♫ If anything Kate Rusby's beautiful voice has become more fulsome as she (like all of us) has matured.  She's playing the Snape Maltings tonight but it's been long time SOLD OUT.

Last chance saloon today at the Cake Bench Framlingham which is closing not just for Christmas but Forever!

  The next available supporter slot is now, it will take you well into the new year.

The George Farnham Gallery in Saxmundham is raffling the artist proof lino print Midsummer Night by Charlotte Hawkins to support the charity Crisis at Christmas .... a generous act and a good cause.  £5 buys five tickets to be drawn tomorrow.

WARNING  Last posting first class is Today!

Today is day 20 on our Advent playlist ... it's the NFL in the snow.

The Christmas bin collections start tomorrow, if you usually put your wheelie bin out Sunday for collection Monday you need to put it out tonight!

♫ Crikey!  Ella Spencer, who has a new single upcoming, has bought us enough coffees for whole working week!  Her dad has already booked Ruben Moreno for next year's Maverick ... Zydeco!

A black Honda WW 125EX2-A motorbike reg MK 64 YEC was stolen from South Green Southwold overnight last Sunday.  Any information about this theft please contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/71023/24, you can call 101.

A grey Sym scooter reg AP 22 FCZ was stolen from the roadside in York Road Southwold sometime between Sunday night and Tuesday morning.  If you can help contact Suffolk police quote crime ref 37/71339/24, you can call 101.

WARNING Last posting second class is Today!

Suffolk Overheard:  You can't tell me what to do, you're not my real daughter.

It's five pounds cheaper if you register by Sunday for the St Elizabeth Hospice Christmas Day Dip in Felixstowe.  We're hoping to be there again with and we don't care if our Crocs (much complimented by Nottingham Gold) do get wet.

  The year moves on, it's the winter solstice Saturday.

How to promote yourself on nearthecoast.com.

Do remember this web site is not available in the shops.

In the Halesworth Cut last night the audience for Mini-Mouth's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe had to be restrained from giving a cheering but premature ovation.

Clicking a pic on here will usually get you a link and/or a bigger pic, try it now->

♫ Despite miserable weather a very decent house yesterday in St Clare's Fram for a Framlingham Ladies Choir concert with free tuck and beverages afterwards.

♫ Post Christmas planning: new year's eve in Yoxford with buffet, midnight glass of fizz and brilliant local band Play House. ♫

WARNING It's Friday the thirteenth ... but not another one until June.

Today is day 13 on our Advent playlist ... Bob and Paul.

Christmas is already looming dangerously close and international last posting dates can be really scary, economy for non-European was in October!  Perhaps more imminent last posting UK second class is Wednesday.

Saturday evening an outbuilding stable on Old Church Road Melton was entered and power tools stolen.  If you have any information please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/69828/24, you can call 101.

A garage on The Street Newbourne was broken into last Sunday or Monday and various tools stolen.  Any information about this incident please contact Suffolk police quoting crime reference 37/69618/24 and here's some security advice.

♫ That'll make a nice change from chilly sports pitches for Framsden soprano Laura Wright when she sings for Christmas in a hopefully warmer Snape Maltings Saturday.

If you like what we do buy us a coffee, sadly we can't accept a Costa Coffee points card but ... a lovely latte? ... a capricious cappuccino? ... how very kind.

Our fortnightly(ish) digest is emailing out at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.