near the coast

♫ Thanks Middleton Bell Inn for the coffees and today they have a free entry delicious afternoon with barbeque from 4pm and  Ralph Taylor and the Secret Peppers from 5pm.  Ralph's new to us but sounding pretty good. ♫

♫ We like the look? sound? of baritone Rob Gildon with sopranos Charmian Bedford and Lucia Vernon Long at the Walpole Old Chapel this afternoon. ♫

This month Butley Mills Studios are debuting Lorna Pridmore's solo show Into The Fray of sculptures and wall works.  Private view  tonight 5-7pm.

To the outsider motorcycle enduros may seem as inexplicable as roller derby.  There's an enduro at Butley today and organisers the Woodbridge DMCC are usually good about arrows to help find it.

Today is vehicular with Land Rover Day at the Middy in Wetheringsett and Classic Cars at Helmingham Hall.

The weekend looks event congested, Saturday includes ♫Hubfest♫ on the Huntingfield Millennium Green, the ♫Pastoral Quire♫ in Dennington Church and British Birds themed 75th Wickham Market Village Show though now too late to get your entry in.

The Walpole Old Chapel is a delight inside.  Upcoming there is a whole bunch of events, Sunday fortnight the Lovekyn Consort play from the 17th century repertoire. ♫

A ways off but come autumn the Sudbourne Printmakers have lino cutting and etching workshops in their beautifully located studios.

Coming back from Horham yesterday the road was blocked by a fire engine at a field fire.  The satnav sent us to two different ROAD CLOSEDs and then unknowingly we were driving back towards the fire engine when a driver coming the other way stopped to tell we needed to take the next right ... what a gentleman.

There will be on the day tickets for Sunday's The Piglet at Wantisden, been there didn't get the t-shirt.

From 2:30pm this afternoon Friston Classics on the Green fund raiser for the church.

The Sudbourne Printmakers were part of this month's Suffolk Open Studios.

10:00am-1:00pm today Fressingfield Shed open day and yard sale.

That new roundabout on the A12 at Friday Street certainly takes the pretty way round.

Debach Airfield Museum opens tomorrow for the first time this year.

Today 11am-4pm the Parham Airfield Museum opens today and for the summer while the Debach Airfield Museum opens the last summer Sundays of the month.

In 1974 East and West Suffolk County Councils were merged into one.  52 years later the government (who always know best of course) has decided if two wasn't a good idea then three must be better as more is always better.  Council changes are planned for 2028 but next month near the coast will be voting and voting does matter.

Our thanks to the Walpole Old Chapel for a generous handful of coffees.  A whole bunch of musical events upcoming at the venue this summer. ♫

♫ We visited Chapel Arts Fressingfield for the first time last year and the venue itself is worth the effort.  Frustratingly we can't make tomorrow's recital of Verdi, Mozart, Finzi and Gershwin by Grammy winning bass baritone Jonathon Lemalu but we can try for Andrey Gugnin in May.

The Sunday as well as the usual rail travel disruption there'll be extra from digital upgrades to the signaling system.

Nice artwork for Dallinghoo's Valentine's Special tonight, the good sounding two course Live Jazz and Curry Night.  Like the government partying during a Covid lock down it's BYOB.

Next month Roughcast Theatre's tribute to the late Tom Stoppard is touring the two one act plays The Real Inspector Hound and A Separate Peace.  The company needs a man with a van who would smile upon their theatrical endeavours.