fr 22 Nov 2024 | The 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 | We've joined Bluesky perhaps mostly for the very good reason that it's not owned by the android and Trump fanboy Elon Musk. If you're so inclined say Hello at @nearthecoast.bsky.social |
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 | Our Alamy stock photo portfolio has over 9,000 images and is still growing. |
th 14 Nov 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: "She did it a capella." "Oh, I don't like foreign food." |
we 13 Nov 2024 | SRN 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 | The 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. ♫ |
A 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 | Why 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 | 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. |
mo 4 Nov 2024 | 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. |
fr 1 Nov 2024 red button | 1974 the BBC started the 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. |
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 | Anorak 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. |
Our fortnightly(ish) digest is emailing out at tea time ... click Postman Pat's black and white cat to get your free copy. | |
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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 parking 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 | Even 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. |
Friday nights are Biker Night at the Billingford Horseshoes ... it's near Diss. | |
th 17 Oct 2024 | The 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-> |
sa 12 Oct 2024 | 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 | Took us time to re-find this, if only we'd looked in our own Twitter likes:) |
th 10 Oct 2024 | If 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 | #FollowFriday ain't too proud to beg eh? |
th 3 Oct 2024 | 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: She It's worth how much?! Sell it and take me down the pub. |
tu 10 Sep 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: No Mabel, you're not up to the trauma of a perm. |
fr 30 Aug 2024 | Suffolk Overheard : The Hallelujah Chorus? I'm not standing for something that just keeps going ♫Hallelujah Hallelujah♫. |
fr 16 Aug 2024 | 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: What's the French for rendezvous? |
sa 6 Jul 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: ... and when she's not moaning she likes to complain. |
th 27 Jun 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: He travels all the way from Southwold just to be annoying. |
fr 21 Jun 2024 college boy | Suffolk Overheard (College boy in Fram Co-op): When he goes camping he takes a DJ just in case. |
fr 14 Jun 2024 | 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: ... yes, any woman who works for him gets a business trip to Paris and a Parker pen ... |
su 19 May 2024 | 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: She's very religious, she's made arrangements for the afterlife ... bought a fireproof purse. |
sa 11 May 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: Has anyone got the phone number of the Internet? I want to place an ad. |
we 10 Apr 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: ... he do like his football he do ... |
th 15 Feb 2024 | 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: He's totally mad, a complete cyclepath. |
su 14 Jan 2024 | Suffolk Overheard: Stick 'and surrounding villages' after it, that'll help. |
sa 30 Dec 2023 | Suffolk Overheard: Stick 'community' in front of it, that'll help. |
we 13 Dec 2023 | 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: He's very adventurous, he's taking time out to travel ... Halesworth, Ipswich maybe even Norwich! |
sa 11 Nov 2023 | 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: But surely vegetarians can eat Scotch eggs! |
su 17 Sep 2023 | Suffolk Overheard: Habitué? Isn't that what you get in the East African when you die? |
th 7 Sep 2023 | 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: When she was little she threw her tamagotchi in the duck pond because it kept interrupting her. |
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