we 16 Apr 2025 | Anorak Alert No.69: ... that didn't take long. Love for Lydia last night on tv the garage attendant says the charge for the petrol is five and a tanner. Tanner was slang for sixpence but the sub-titles mishears it as tenner ... picky picky eh?
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| Overnight last Thursday on the High Street Ufford wooden pallets were set alight and glass on a digger smashed. Any info contact Suffolk police quoting crime ref 37/19911/25, you can call 101.
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tu 15 Apr 2025 | Anorak Alert No.68: Seems unlikely but we seem to be getting less anoraky these days. We see misspellings and word misuse in sub-titles and celebrities and scriptwriters getting it wrong but we can't be bothered to report it ... who knows? might get back to our old selves.
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| Our Alamy stock photo portfolio has over 9,800 images and is still growing.  |
mo 14 Apr 2025 | ♫ A long way off but still this year autumnal bookings for the Halesworth Cut include Eddi Reader (Fairground Attraction in another life) and the seemingly immortal Dr Feelgood ... saw them certainly this century and bought the t-shirt.
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su 13 Apr 2025 | D day veteran and Cransford resident Douglas Cracknell has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government.
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| How very kind, the Norwich Devils have bought us a full handful of coffees. Their next home game is this coming Sunday, a free day out at NR7 0UL.  |
sa 12 Apr 2025 | 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. ♫
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| ♫ From Southend (it's not the law, you don't have to pronounce it Sarfend with a smirk or snigger) the 251s tomorrow in Ipswich look very promising. |
| Planning a witch ducking this winter? Or perhaps a trial by fire for an estate agent? You're welcome to promote it on here.
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fr 11 Apr 2025 | #FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?
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th 10 Apr 2025 | Good news, missing 14 year old Cyrus Blackwood found this morning. |
 | The fortnightly(ish) digest emails out lunch time today ... click Jaques Tati to get yours for free ...
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| Very affordable Easter hols showing of Moana 2 at 12pm (doors open 11:30am) tomorrow at the Debenham Leisure Centre. Drinks and snacks available and just £2 cash on the door. 
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|  14 year old Cyrus Blackwood has been missing from Ipswich since Monday. He is black, around 5ft 3inches tall, of slim build with dark brown hair and was last seen wearing a dark tracksuit with black and white trainers. He has connections in Suffolk and London, you can call 101.
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we 9 Apr 2025 | The British American football season started Sunday with the Ipswich Cardinals including 3 safeties in their 21-06 win over the Norwich Devils and without Trump charging for use of the sport.  |
| Suffolk Myths No.105: Sometimes in a charity shop they know how to work the till. |
tu 8 Apr 2025 | Bought a first class stamp yesterday ... Paypal offered we could pay in installments. |
| Saturday almost summer on a sunny Framlingham Market Hill. |
mo 7 Apr 2025 | 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.  |
su 6 Apr 2025 | Do remember this web site is not available in the shops. |
sa 5 Apr 2025 | ♫ TRAGEDY! Man in the Hat 's final show TONIGHT. <sob> <sob>. |
| 1-4pm this afternoon Bedingfield Spring Fair in the village hall. |
| Parham Airfield Museum reopens for the summer Sunday and the British American football season starts (wouldn't be surprised if Trump tries to charge us for it) with the Ipswich Cardinals away to the Norwich Devils ... two free days out.  |
th 3 Apr 2025 | ♫ Duo Niepold-Cutting are Belgian Anne Niepold and Brit Andy Cutting diatonic accordionists (the instruments only seem to have buttons). They play the Wingfield Barns tomorrow week and at the mo' just twenty tickets left.
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we 2 Apr 2025 | Saturday the 26th at Aldeburgh Cinema Jon Canter will invite lovely Michael Palin to choose clips from his favourite films. Palin has long time associations with coastal Suffolk, in his published diaries he takes his mum to lunch in the Wickham Market White Hart ... always shops in our time. 
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| This is encouragingly near the coast +ve. Scott Bange's wallet lost in Brandeston was handed in to the Cretingham Bell, he's still missing his glasses. |
tu 1 Apr 2025
 | Global celebrity and near the coast resident that there Ed Sheraton is organising a sponsored bike ride of the Colly pubs around Stackton Tressel. It's pay for your own beer because every penny raised will go to Charity ... or whatever the name of that escort was.  |