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mo 6 Jun 2022	Yesterday's Ipswich Cardinals 14-21 Colchester Gladiators was a little tetchy but disorder was limited to one outbreak. Later there was a flop so ... more here
tu 17 May 2022	In Cambridge Saturday's Varsity game for the first three quarters looked like an Oxford Lancers win if not a repeat of last year's 36-00 Pythons ... more here
fr 22 Apr 2022	Suffolk Myths 95: Some Suffolk women got Covid three months before the first case in China.
su 10 Oct 2021	Friday afternoon between Bradfield (not Bredfield) and Mistley
th 30 Sep 2021	We knew Saturday week there was a stage of the Women's Tour finishing in Felixstowe (we were there for the stage start in 2014). We hadn't realised that it's the tour's final stage. On the previous day there's another spectator opportunity just over the county border when the tour visits North Essex, Colchester to Clacton.
mo 20 Sep 2021	Yesterday somewhere between Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge both ways there was very heavy rain but none to speak of at Cardinals 08-57 Cambridge ... more here
tu 31 Aug 2021	The second three team meeting of the Women's Central East Conference Saturday was held at the Peterborough Lions Rugby Club. Despite helpful ... more here
sa 5 Jun 2021	Stackton Tressel (pop 6,324) town council denies informal meetings to discuss a unilateral declaration of independence after the government finalises a trade deal with Liechtenstein (pop 38,229). Council chairman Dame Celia Baumhugger said she'd heard there were trees in Liechtenstein.
sa 3 Apr 2021	We thought the world was slowly drifting back to normality so discouraging that next weekend's Paris-Roubiax has been postponed until October.
fr 2 Apr 2021	Turkey has taken over from Germany as the third busiest country reading our digest ... Turkey?!
su 7 Mar 2021	Encouraging little signs of approaching normality this weekend are the welcome return of Over The Moon Coffee on Framlingham Market yesterday and the race to the sun Paris-Nice starts today with highlights on ITV4 tonight at 6pm.
sa 6 Mar 2021	It took us a while to work it out but if a parachute was used to land the Perseverance rover then Mars must have an atmosphere. The vehicle has now moved 21 feet ... so a bit like the North Circular then.
su 14 Feb 2021	Not surprisingly the Tour de Rwanda has been pushed back from the end of this month to May but still the Wall of Kigali.
mo 1 Feb 2021	East Anglia's Children's Hospices has taken a big financial hit because of the virus. You can help out by buying a £3 competitor in a virtual balloon race from Paris on St Valentine's Day, first prize £500.
tu 27 Oct 2020	A chum recently described a Woody Allen film as arty. Would they think the same of next month's Cambridge Film Festival? We're intrigued by a Bulgarian view of Brexit Britain Cat in the Wall.
su 18 Oct 2020	You can watch the Giro d'Italia in Welsh and live on iPlayer despite Geraint Thomas crashing out early on with a fractured hip.
tu 15 Sep 2020	Born in Suffolk Daisy Cooper went to Framlingham College, was Suffolk Coastal prospective parliamentary candidate in 2010 and in 2014 looked like a shoo in for the Lib Dem presidency. Daisy is now MP for St Albans and this week was elected deputy leader of her party ... we need more politicians called Daisy.
tu 8Sep 2020	A chum who has been motor homing near Wales pointed us at BBC Wales' three part doc about roller derby league Tiger Bay Brawlers. On tv 10:45pm tonight in Wales only but available everywhere on iPlayer.
th 3 Sep 2020	Le Tour (LE tour - LA course) being delayed by two months and with perhaps optimistic Covid spectator restrictions hasn't slowed down the caravane publicitaire. It has always surprised us the willingness of spectators to dodge in and out of often hurtling race vehicles to get a free biscuit:)
su 23 Aug 2020	What was not near the coast in 2015-2014 is now not near the coast in 2016-2014 and features fish and chips with fruit.
we 12 Aug 2020	A month late the Tour de France starts on the 29th of this month (see it on ITV4). In the US it looks like at least some of the college american football season is cancelled, hope that doesn't happen in the UK.
fr 31 Jul 2020	The other Norfolk roller derby league on YouTube and in Canada.
fr 24 Jul 2020	BBC doc United Skates has stunning (often synchronised) rolling from black American skaters. It also has racism, gangs, developers and closing down roller rinks but stay with it as the ending is encouraging.
mo 20 Jul 2020	The Suffolk Punch was (may be is) one third of the Suffolk Trinity (with red poll cattle and black faced sheep) but as a breed it's severely under threat with just 72 mares in the UK. A positive sign for this gorgeously coloured and historically important breed is using a new sex sorted sperm method a filly colt has been born in Whitchurch Shropshire.
tu 7 Apr 2020	Yesterday 243 confirmed C-19 cases in Suffolk and here's the fifteenth reason to be cheerful ... in similar style we recall the late Pip Pyle's Cambridge hipster circle in the 1960s all speaking really quietly. ♫
fr 27 Mar 2020	The Giro d'Italia starting with three stages in Hungary could be postponed.
su 15 Mar 2020	Paris-Nice ended a day early yesterday, the UK Women's Tour (which has a stage finish in Felixstowe) postponed from its June start, both the Ipswich Cardinals and in Norwich the Iceni Spears have suspended training. Friday we were supposed to see Eric Church in that there London but yes, it was postponed. The world's going to be a bit duller for a while ...
su 8 Mar 2020	One of cycling's five monuments Milan-San Remo has been cancelled because of the coronavirus.
mo 10 Feb 2020	Yesterday's Kent Falcons 00-17 Essex Blades was really worked over by Storm Ciara (our trousers and underpants were still soaked through when we got back ... more here
sa 18 Jan 2020	Travelling west on the A14 at Cambridge you now get in the outside (not inside) lane to stay on the A14. Then after the never ending road works the other side of Cambridge and before Huntingdon suddenly you're on three lanes which deliver you to the A1 a bit south of where it used to. The satnav got so confused we feared it would get a sore throat from multiple Please drive to highlighted route.
tu 14 Jan 2020	From Walberswick and now MP for St Albans Daisy Cooper has made her maiden speech.
fr 10 Jan 2020	We've been to Dundee twice, a bit like Derby Day in Norwich.
fr 3 Jan 2020	If Count Dracula's ship the Demeter had got lost in all that fog and landed at Orford instead of Whitby then after his first meal in Suffolk the Count would know a lot more about tractors.
fr 6 Dec 2019	Fanny Craddock was a hoarse voiced tv chef cooking overblown and pretentious food. It unsettled us the way she mauled the food about. Johnnie was one of her four (two bigamous) husbands and whilst wearing a cravat and monocle he would advise on the wine. When lunching at Buck's Wine Bar Brantham near Manningtree (barman Simon was a chum of ours), Fanny to read the menu just grabbed Johnnie's monocle ribbon and yanked. Fanny Cooks for Christmas is on iPlayer.
th 11 Jul 2019	Roughcast Theatre are touring Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream around near the coast finishing with a dash over the channel for two shows in the Dordogne ... perhaps because it might be their last chance:) Tomorrow there's a free performance at the Laxfield Low House.
mo 24 Jun 2019	Annoyingly the diversion for the closed Westerfield level crossing is NOT signed but we still made it to Ipswich Cardinals v Maidstone Pumas yesterday. Surprisingly there were no refs and general manager Ralph said other games were also ... more here
sa 22 Jun 2019	Very pleased to see Denver keeping the roller derby skate out alive and entertaining.
we 3 Apr 2019	When we were at Essex Uni for an american football final Sunday we noticed that The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps was playing in the campus theatre. It's at the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall the Saturday after next. A fearsome but funny gothic tale of dynasty, death, revenge and hope. Lovely moral. - Michael Rosen
su 3 Mar 2019	Today drove on the A47 from Peterborough to Norwich, they does like a roundabout round there they does.
we 6 Feb 2019	ASTONISHER No.45: When Johnny Cash gave an unlikely concert at San Quentin state prison fellow country singer Merle I'm an Okie from Muskogee Haggard was in the audience serving two and a half years for burglary and an attempted jail break. Equally unlikely (though perhaps not in the USA) Haggard was pardoned in 1972 by then governor of California Ronald Reagan.
we 30 Jan 2019	Pop up shop Carousel in Bridge Street Framlingham has been an impressive success. Previously it was ladies clothes and this week it is paintings by Peasenhall artist John Bawtree. His works are thoughtfully attractive and are of both local Suffolk scenes and overseas including Venice, France and Zanzibar!
tu 29 Jan 2019	Here's a roller derby novelty, the British Championships Mansfield Roller Derby v Hellfire Harlots B is free entry ... though it is a ways to Mansfield admittedly.
we 23 Jan 2019	It's all the go in and about near the coast, temporarily closing petrol stations to re-model them, not an insignificant matter when there are so few to start with. Woodbridge (has it re-opened yet?), Co-op Stowmarket (not closed but building going on), Haynings Framlingham (reportedly will have a 24 hour self service pump) and now the BP garage on the west bound A14 near Newmarket. Fortunately services just off the A14 on the other side of Cambridge are copiously resourced ... three Costa Coffee machines!
mo 21 Jan 2019	We found French director Céline Sciamma's film Tomboy highly involving and rewarding not least because it made the Parisian suburbs look idyllic. So very gratifying to find a sealed copy of her later film Girlhood in the Framlingham EACH chazza. Here the banlieue is relentlessly gritty and though Vic essentially remains trapped in her situation the opening sequence is women's american football from team Les Molosses.
mo 14 Jan 2019	We've added Swiss national road race cycling champion Nicole Hanselmman to Ladies in Framlingham.

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