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fr 22 Nov
2024

Buy us a coffeeThe barista where you can buy us a coffee is sportingly offering a short Americano with biscotti and dash of milk for just two pounds ...

th 21 Nov
2024

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tu 19 Nov
2024

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

su 17 Nov
2024

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

sa 16 Nov
2024

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th 14 Nov
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard:  "She did it a capella." "Oh, I don't like foreign food."

we 13 Nov
2024

SRN NearthecoastSRN Nearthecoast is in, doesn't feel the government has treated nurses fairly, is fiddling with her tick list and clicky pen but still listening at ntc@nearthecoast.com.

tu 12 Nov
2024

Alan Smethurst 'The Singing Postman' 1927-2000The tractorati quiver with antici ... pation for the digest that emails out teatime today.  To get your free copy click on Alan Smethurst The Singing Postman. ♫

Recycle electricals near the coastA bit vague when this is going to happen but leave up to two small (presumably not fridge/freezers or washing machines) electricals on top of your wheelie bin for collection ... as long as the bin lorry's basket is not full.

mo 11 Nov
2024

Make America Great AgainWhy didn't Trump Make America Great Again when he was president last time?  Oh he did and Biden ungreated it again?  Righto.

su 10 Nov
2024

Buy us a coffee  The next available ad slot is now, it will take you into the new year.

tu 5 Nov
2024

Astonisher No.63: Clare Skinner who plays the mother in Outnumbered younger and with a boy's haircut is unrecognisable in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet. Life is Sweet

mo 4 Nov
2024

A to Z of ntcDon'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.

fr 1 Nov
2024
red button

PC Tips1974 the BBC started BBC Red Buttonthe world's first teletext service Ceefax.  It didn't survive the 2012 digital switchover but a similar text service is available on the red button if the tv is not connected to the Internet and despite a threat to end it in 2020.  Journalistic standards are slipping with clumsy copy and pastes from the web but it does make a less brutal way to get the news. tv and radio

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard:  He It's not what you want when you're making yourself nice for a wedding.

th 31 Oct
2024

nearthecoast digest subscriber Andy Fordyce emailed that he likes to think Victoria Coren Mitchell's 'slip' (below) was to 'amuse' her husband ... could very well be eh?

we 30 Oct
2024
St Andrew's Day

Victoria Coren Mitchell chairing Only ConnectAnorak Alert No.65: On Monday's Only Connect (around 5:22) Victoria Coren Mitchell a little uncertainly credited the made up game Numberwang to Armstrong and Miller.  Embarrassingly it was Mitchell and Webb (Mitchell as in David Mitchell her husband).  While we're here try Eleanor Morton's parody Every Only Connect Team Intro.

Jess the black and white catOur fortnightly(ish) digest is emailing out at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy.

su 27 Oct
2024

The clocks have gone BACK. The clocks go back

we 23 Oct
2024

How to promote yourself on nearthecoast.com.

su 20 Oct
2024

Do remember this web site is not available in the shops.

sa 19 Oct
2024

Life Skills No. 59:  Prompted by a friend we downloaded the RingGo parkingWickham Market car park app so we wouldn't have to worry about having the right coins when visiting the dentist in Woodbridge.  The app worked on our second visit and we thought That's that, but then it didn't work in a Dorchester council car park and we leant there's more than one parking app.  Judging by this Wickham Market sign there's now a choice of five apps in East Suffolk.

fr 18 Oct
2024

Mackenzie Crook outside the Framlingham CrownEven allowing for it's always longer than you think we're still surprised that Detectorists is ten years old!  It's gentle humour is still endearing and tonight Radio 4s Screenshot will be celebrating the anniversary. tv and radio

Friday nights are Biker Night at the Billingford Horseshoes ... it's near Diss.

th 17 Oct
2024

Jaques Tati  1907-1982The fortnightly(ish) digest emailed out today ... click Jaques Tati to get yours for free.

Ashley McBryde, Caylee Hammack and Pillbox Patti's Brenda Put Your Bra On has joined reasons to be cheerful ... We ain't ever been on the tv before.

mo 14 Oct
2024

Clicking a pic on here will usually get you a link and/or a bigger pic, try it now-> Click to see pix

sa 12 Oct
2024

A witch ducking this year?Planning a witch ducking this winter?  Or perhaps a trial by fire for an estate agent?  You're welcome to promote it on here.

fr 11 Oct
2024

Tweet us! Took us time to re-find this, if only we'd looked in our own Twitter likes:)

th 10 Oct
2024

Buy us a coffeeIf you like what we do buy us a coffee, sadly we can't accept a Costa Coffee points card but ... a lovely latte? ... a capricious cappuccino? ... how very kind.

fr 4 Oct
2024

Tweet us! #FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh?

th 3 Oct
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard (Woman passenger in the Co-op car park): People won't get out the way and if you run them over you get in to trouble.

we 25 Sep
2024

Work in progress hopefully making it easier to navigate this web site if you're visiting on a mobile phone ... try it now Framlingham.

mo 16 Sep
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard:  She It's worth how much?!  Sell it and take me down the pub.

tu 10 Sep
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: No Mabel, you're not up to the trauma of a perm.

fr 30 Aug
2024

Georg Friedrich Handel  1685-1759Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard : The Hallelujah Chorus?  I'm not standing for something that just keeps going ♫Hallelujah Hallelujah♫.

fr 16 Aug
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: (in Sax perhaps surprisingly): I have a concept note I want to develop into a strategy outline.

we 31 Jul
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: What's the French for rendezvous?

sa 6 Jul
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: ... and when she's not moaning she likes to complain.

th 27 Jun
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: He travels all the way from Southwold just to be annoying.

fr 21 Jun
2024
college boy

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard (College boy in Fram Co-op): When he goes camping he takes a DJ just in case.

fr 14 Jun
2024

A Black CatSuffolk Overheard Suffolk OH: (speaking of a cat or possibly a teenage daughter): ... when she wants something we inevitably bend before the juggernaut that is her will ...

we 29 May
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: ... yes, any woman who works for him gets a business trip to Paris and a Parker pen ...

su 19 May
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard (in an estate agents): ... he said he knew I must be her sister because I was so nice ...

th 16 May
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: She's very religious, she's made arrangements for the afterlife ... bought a fireproof purse.

sa 11 May
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: Has anyone got the phone number of the Internet?  I want to place an ad.

we 10 Apr
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: ... he do like his football he do ...

th 15 Feb
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: (in Aldeburgh, well it would be): Yes in June we always attend the clan gathering at Hilllfoot, my husband is the chieftain.

su 28 Jan
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: He's totally mad, a complete cyclepath.

su 14 Jan
2024

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: Stick 'and surrounding villages' after it, that'll help.

sa 30 Dec
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: Stick 'community' in front of it, that'll help.

we 13 Dec
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: The doctor gave me painkillers but they didn't do no good, I must be too tough.

tu 28 Nov
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: He's very adventurous, he's taking time out to travel ... Halesworth, Ipswich maybe even Norwich!

sa 11 Nov
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: (On Ipswich station a man is kneeling to propose to his girlfriend) Ian, I'm wearing my trainers!

sa 14 Oct
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: But surely vegetarians can eat Scotch eggs!

su 17 Sep
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: Habitué?  Isn't that what you get in the East African when you die?

th 7 Sep
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: Listen, it's quite simple, the bar is open Fridays, Saturdays and on Wednesdays ... except when the pool team is playing away.

mo 31 Jul
2023

Suffolk Overheard Suffolk Overheard: When she was little she threw her tamagotchi in the duck pond because it kept interrupting her.

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