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tu 3 May 2016	The weekend before last we saw Bury Saints beat Solent Thrashers 19-6 at home. A scrappy match that in the spirit of Shakespeare's anniversary might be described as a Comedy of Errors. For us the most surprising moment was when the visiting defensive coach was warned for unsportsmanlike conduct because one of his hand signals to his own players could be interpreted as threatening (NFL Rules Section 3 Article 1b). This Sunday the Saints play the Herts Cheetahs, free admission.
su 28 Dec 2014	The Lee on the Solent HSBC bank closed at the end of November and though like Framlingham there's a cash dispenser on the Co-op unlike Framlingham there isn't another bank.
tu 19 Aug 2014	From Southend's Seaside Sirens Truly Thumptious and son have joined our 1,000+ views album.
su 29 Dec 2013	Nice to be back in Suffolk, Monday night in Dorset we almost got stuck in the second flood we forded whilst our hostess got stuck for five hours and destroyed the engine of her BMW ... but we did get to see ...
sa 14 Dec 2013	Lee on Solent is near another coast.
fr 28 Dec 2012	Dennis Thurgood from a small town near Portsmouth has emailed us correctly naming Guess Who 26? but that don't stop you keep trying.
sa 22 Dec 2012	Earlier in the week to celebrate a Close Personal Relative in Lee on Solent's Slimming World certificate we visited the town's Queens Road pond to feed the birds and fish. Making a left handed fling of bread her wedding ring flew off and plopped in the pond. Lee on Solent being a bit seasidey she bought a kid's pink fishing net in the newsagents for £2.99 and the first poke in the silt brought up this not tiny fish ... sadly unlike the fairy tale it did not have her wedding ring in its mouth.
su 18 Nov 2012	Unlike Thursday it's been lovely today in a large town near Chelmsford and it was mostly dark in Southend yesterday.
th 20 Sep 2012	Everybody probably has a loved one or a not loved one they wish had a volume control. At a Southend roller derby we found this perfect ring by Must Destroy Jewellery but to present it we really needed a box, Framlingham jewellers Sarah Cole (hidden away in The Mews but about to move on to the Market Hill), a piece of white polystyrene and sharp knife did the job.
mo 17 Sep 2012	Saturday's Battle of Britain in Southend had four teams led by Seaside Sirens but with guest skaters from all over. The first no break 40 minute Hurricanes v Spitfires bout flashed past, even the 30 seconds between jams somehow seemed shorter ... perhaps it was absence of official time outs. We were particularly taken with the ... more roller derby
su 26 Aug 2012	It looked like last year's Goodwood Roller Marathon would be the last one for a bit but it's transmogrified into the South Coast Roll and is rolling today.
we 4 jl 12	The Peasenhall Assembly Hall is one of three green token good causes this month at the Saxmundham Waitrose (roller derby league the Seaside Sirens was one of last month's three in the Southend Waitrose).
th 26 Apr 2012	At Pier Pressure in Southend Saturday we missed the first bout skate out but surely the Sirens' A team's dough boy must have won despite mixed team Masters of the Derbyverse coaches YT and Philthy winning appreciative laughter from the crowd for their super-heroine capes ... wouldn't it be nice if programmes gave the home leagues of mixed team skaters? The Masters of etc went evens ... more roller derby
fr 30 Mar 2012	A warning from the Gamekeeper about wasps and hornets even though he's in Cornwall.
mo 28 Nov 2011	Saturday we went to Southend to see the Seaside Sirens bifurcate into Guns and Roses for their first intra-league bout, and first time for us man derby from Southern Discomfort and Lincolnshire Rolling Thunder. Blimey! Man derby is 100 mile an hour stuff with very BIG hits and a 'loose' skating style that includes lots of skating backwards and some running backwards on your toes ... but still that roller derby quirkyness.
mo 12 Sep 2011	Scouser Alexie Sayle may have said of Milton Keynes it's like the Somme with houses but the MK Concrete Cows don't seem to have been disadvantaged beating roller derby hosts the Seaside Sirens 143 to 88 in Southend Saturday. In the support bout the debuting Kent Roller Girls also won and looked particularly good in black and gold, lots of pix on Facebook.
su 4 Sep 2011	Visiting Southend's seafront for the first time in a long time we rather liked the Victorian gothic west of the pier and the continually changing fountains by the Kursaal east of the pier. We were at the seaside for the Polish Arts Festival and we enjoyed the food, the dancing, the graffiti wall, the horizon broadening involvement of children, Essex Uni hall of residence's fast Internet upload and Body Snatchers Theatre who even by Suffolk standards are actually mad.
mo 22 Aug 2011	These looking just like a garden shed bus shelters are in Rustington on the south coast, nice to know that in some towns life isn't all security cameras and designated areas.
su 19 Jun 2011	Pix of the Beach Bash Bosh roller derby in Southend on Facebook.
th 9 Jun 2011	Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush 8pm tonight at the Harwich Electric Palace.
su 24 Apr 2011	Yesterday's outstanding Brawl at Sea in Southend was the first ever roller derby bout for both the Seaside Sirens and Norfolk Brawds ... we were slightly taken aback by the smallest blocker and largest jammer we've ever seen on a flat track.
su 27 Feb 2011	7:30 tonight Suffolk's Got More Talent at the Leiston Cinema ... no, we've never been there but it sounds a bit like the Harwich Electric Palace.
th 27 Jan 2011	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (she did the same but backwards and wearing heels) in Top Hat tonight at the Harwich Electric Palace.
tu 21 Dec 2010	Carols on the Quay tonight in Mistley, Christmas Eve carols in Brundish church 6:30pm whilst the Old Glory Molly Dancers will be in both Southwold and Walberswick.
sa 18 Dec 2010	7pm: The Harwich Electric Palace have cancelled tonight's film show because the projectionist can't get in and we've just experienced quite heavy snow between Woodbridge and the A14.
fr 8 Oct 2010	Running this month at the Beyond The Image gallery near Eye is a show of images by Gwyn Bilby from the Whitby Goth Weekend earlier this year.
sa 25 Sep 2010	♫ It's the last day of the Fressingfield Music Festival with a concert tonight from counter-tenor David Shepherd and baroque ensemble Badinage, also tonight Spikedrivers (in the vid) at the Manningtree Red Lion with jamming tomorrow afternoon in the bar.
th 26 Aug 2010	Near another coast Littlehampton has not only the somewhere or another's longest bench but probably the biggest marital aid too ... it must be the name ... Littlehampton.
mo 12 Jul 2010	The baker's octopus in La Herradura got it right! (Thanks Sue)
su 6 Jun 2010	Pretty much non-stop Isle of Man TT on ITV4 at the mo' ... there's a history doc starting soon ... should be sidecars at 9pm.
we 3 Feb 2010	Plenty of training time for the three dudes who will be cycling from Framlingham to Brighton in May.
tu 19 Jan 2010	Mistley Quay near Manningtree is a thoughtful place, a quietly working wharf which should have a view like this, but there's now a two metre high wire fence all along the quay, so absolutely Free the Quay!
sa 30 Jan 2010	Saw on tv last night that the only significant temporary housing in Haiti are ShelterBoxes supplied by UK Rotarians ... and an older lady who'd had a leg amputated, had no medical supplies and hadn't eaten for four days.
mo 25 Jan 2010	Music at the Manningtree Red Lion this Saturday for Free The Quay.

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