Norfolk teens

The other side of the A140 and just over the border in Norfolk tomorrow the annual Burston Strike School rally with Attila the Stockbroker and it would seem poet/comedian John Hegley.

The bus shelter(s) that used to be in Station Road Framlingham have been clouted by something vehicular twice.  First in 2009 (gossip was something large turning out Victoria Mill Road) and though both crashes made the shelter unusable they weren't as comprehensive as this wipe out in Tasburgh on the A140.

This evening we were on a Diss bench eating cod and chips (a little oily but ok) and looking at Fair Green.  We could hear but not see children playing in a garden.  Every so often the top two thirds of a young girl would appear above the fence before disappearing as she jumped.  Before one jump we swear she said One small step for me, one giant leap for girlkind.

Police have arrested two men in connection with the fatal Bungay hit and run.

Police have named the man who died after a hit and run in Bungay ... he was walking his dog who wasn't injured.

The 42 year old pedestrian seriously injured by a hit and run driver in Bungay Friday died yesterday evening.

In the early hours of this morning a pedestrian was seriously injured in Bungay by a fail to stop driver.

03:45pm: Police now think the fail to stop vehicle was a Nissan Qashqai.

We've noted before the Haverhill Arts Centre has become a try out zone for Himoff Thetellies so weren't stunned but a little surprised that nice Stephen Mr Cleverclogs Fry is playing there next month.  Then we read more carefully, it's a broadcast of him on stage in a large town ... a broadcast? <in Lady Bracknell voice>.

Marcus Brigstocke's Diss Corn Hall gig at the end of next month is halfway though a proper tour ... maybe it's because it's Norfolk.

In the car park at the back of the Long Stratton Co-op pharmacy (perhaps they mean chemists) we saw a white five hundredweight Co-op pharmacy van with sign written on the side prescriptions collected and delivered ... now there's a thought.

Any pub or ex-pub near the coast with eagles (the Pettistree Three Tuns) is likely to have been a Lacons pub.  The Great Yarmouth brewery served 1760 until 1968 when Whitbread who had bought it three years earlier closed it in the American manner.  To our surprise at least the brewery resuscitated last year ... what goes round comes round.

Very East Anglian 6pm tonight live speedway from Sweden on ... wait for it ... Freeview Quest!  (Perhaps they're buying it from Eurosport?)

Last weekend we found ourselves in a Norfolk sports hall by a baby on his daddy's knee.  The baby was charmingly alternating looking amused, bemused and astonished ... a bit like the unlikely love child of Stan Laurel and Father Dougal.  What would an alien make of this little unlikelyness?  Kittens and puppies look similar to their parents but babies ... who would believe this little thing would become a great clomping adult?  Perhaps the alien would conclude the big ones took so much care of the little one because the little one knows how to work the Sky box.

Last night in Diss a black and white themed charity dance prompted imaginative dressing and complemented Framlingham's favourites The Outlaws who rocked of course (even if it is Norfolk, if only just).  Over £650 was raised for the St Nicholas Hospice Bury St Edmunds and as we left we passed a dancer walking home with her high heels in her hands, thought that only happened in films ... maybe we should get out more.

For us the high spot of last month's jubilee was seeing Colletteral Damage jump the apex at Easton College Norfolk.

What we did in Norfolk, Saxmundham and Framlingham for the jubilee ... ah well, back to work.

The Homersfield (it's near Diss) Black Swan yesterday was packed with chairmen, facilitators, co-ordinators, mayoral chains, at least one cleric and a slap up cream team to launch Seven Towns In Sound which includes Eye and Halesworth.  The downloadable audio walking guides have been produced by Nick Jenkins of Soundboard Productions who did a similar thing for Framlingham (and an impromptu skatepark opening) a couple of years back.

Rupert Hamer the UK journalist killed in Afghanistan was ex-Eastern Daily Press.

Body found in Beccles.

Saturday night there was the general mayhem that always seems to occur when Banham and The Outlaws come in to conjunction.

A refutation (good word eh?) of the Banham social club rumour.

Now that's how long since we last went to Snetterton.  When we drove through Diss last week a Tescos had appeared, next to Morrisons which has Somerfield on the opposite side of the road ... didn't see the turbines but it was dark.

Before we went there for the first time last night we knew Banham has a zoo, a shop, a community centre and Sara from the former Munch Box Café lives there.  What we now know about Banham is the community centre's main hall couldn't double as an aircraft hangar but you could probably squeeze in eight helicopters double stacked, it's high enough; and they just love having their photo taken in Banham.  Once The Outlaws' easy going  honesty had winkled people out of the bar you couldn't stop 'em posing or dancing.  In fact one girl danced so committedly she ended up full length on the floor ... or maybe it was just midnight sunstroke ...

... and on our way home the lights were still on in the Wilby village hall.