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Even if yours is a local event just for local people you could still benefit from How to promote your event.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will give you that nice warm feeling of having done the right thing.

Everybody likes team photos except the photographer.  Players arrange themselves in a line or two that's impossible to fill the frame and sometimes with their backs to the sun.  Half are looking at their mates' phones not the camera and all are nonplussed if asked to do something different.  A notable exception are the UEA Pirates after a 30-6 win and Eastern Sur5val had a moment.

Suffolk Overheard: I was privately educated but the school didn't have a tuck shop or a jacuzzi.

Zooming Sunday night with Big Al who's in Switzerland he pointed out that on his Windows update page there's an Enrol now link to extend security updates for Windows 10.  We looked at ours ... more here

Throwback Thursday: 18 years ago yesterday near the coast favourites The Outlaws played in a tent at the back of the Worlingworth Swan. ♫

Fishmonger Darren Smith and stalwart nearthecoast supporter continues to keep us going with much appreciated coffees, retail advice and when in season fresh mussels.  You can WhatsApp Darren on 07815 891963.

Worried too many people might turn up for your coffee morning?  Garden fete?  Swingers' party?  Don't do promotion on nearthecoast then.

Suffolk Truths No.106:  In Suffolk the manager of ITFC is usually considered more important than the prime minister, the monarch and that there Ed Sheraton.

The next available supporter slot is now, it will take your link well into autumn.

We know at least four of the castings for SHAKE's Akenfield.

The tractorati quiver with antici ... pation for the nearthecoast digest emailing out this afternoon.  To get your free copy click on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

You only need 15 minutes to participate in the Big Butterfly Count which ends TODAY.  We keep rescuing butterflies attempting death by head banging in the conservatory and rescued a tiny dragon fly in the sitting room ... how did it get in?

Golf Whiskey Tango a posh boy's country weekend.

Wordle seems to have started using an extended dictionary; Kefir?!, Atria (the plural of Atrium apparently), Knell and yesterday Matte.

Life Skills No. 67: In this hot weather useful to remember that double glazing works both ways.

gridiron uk has become the slightly less clunky Britball 

The village doesn't support you?  Promote yourself on nearthecoast.

How to promote yourself on nearthecoast.com.

Desperate to fill the daytime tv schedules programmers are mining further and further back though we have yet to see Hill Street Blues or Ally McBeal.

The fortnightly(ish) digest emailed out at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

Suffolk Myths No.106: The government wants to disband Suffolk district councils in case they're planning to merge with Kigali Borough Council in Rwanda.

Who curates supermarket loose lemons?  They are nearly always a bit naff.

Astonishers has overflowed into more astonishers.

Astonisher No.67: Actress Lesley Manville's broad range has always impressed us especially in Mike Leigh films.  For some reason we were surprised (if not astonished) that when still at the drama school Italia Conti she declined an offer to join Hot Gossip.

Don't know your way round nearthecoast?  You need the A to Z, it's FREE, kills 99% of known germs plus you don't have to pay and display or walk through the gift shop to get out.