on here teens

Canadians eh?

We're 12 years old today, before you know it we'll be having a gap year to travel.

Overheard a member of staff describe the Co-op as a cult ... truer than they know:)

The new Twitter 'experience' seems a bit left handed ... but admittedly cleaner.

We've licensed a pic via Alamy to a French publisher ... feeling quite cosmo.

We were wondering why since our move to a new server maintenance things were happening in the morning instead of middle of the night, the server was on New York time:)  Clocks go back at the end of next month.

Apologies for being a bit silent recently but we've been doing stuff to please Mr Google.  He gave us a small pat on the head yesterday ... but we don't trust him.

Today we're moving nearthecoast on to a new and faster server.  There could be a little disruption but as Stackton Tressel's wellbeing deliverance officer has taken to saying It's gonna be great.

Blimey!  One of our stock pix licensed for German telly.  

Early Warning: Shrove Tuesday is comparatively late this year, last day of the month.

We've collected past astonishers on to their own page.

♥ you democracy ... even when you get it wrong :)

It does matter ... VOTE!

Nice try flinders but Guess Who 35? isn't Eric Morecambe. 

At the beginning of April BT made us an offer we couldn't refuse so after 16 years we transferred our Orange mobile to BT ... for most of this month we've had no or only a partial mobile service.  Seems to be working now, try texting us on 07970 865730

The Vatican City has announced the excommunication vitandus of Hopkins Homes for engaging in joint commercial activities with Satan.  An excommunication vitandus barrs Catholics from dealing with the excommunicated which should slow the spread of Satanism within Suffolk.

175 years ago today Beau Brummell died in a French lunatic asylum ... it was probably what they made him wear.

Our attempts to please that nice Mr Google with how we look on a smartphone took if not a giant leap forward at least a significant step today.

Maximus Decimus Meridius:  My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.  Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Starbucks:  ... I'll just put Max then.

Today we are still mostly fixing mobile usability issues to please that nice Mr Google.

Is this the future of the NHS?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  No doubt in 2015 Andrea Hill will return as County chief executive and sponsorship renames Suffolk as Hopkinshomeshire, it'll be cheapest to park in Essex and use helicopters to travel around ntc, finally roller derby in Ipswich and perhaps we get a record 20,000 visitors in a month, we abandon VeganB46 but still drop a dress size and despite the continual house building and bureaucratic BS near the coast remains a pleasant place to live ...

Five years ago today the wheelie bins arrived in the now disappearing industrial south of Framlingham and what was then Solar was ram raided by four balaclavaed men.

Ray Dolby has died aged 80 ... that's the A, B and C of it.

Mr Smith found these left overs from from a good time by the A12 near Saxmundham.  Is there a Burger King in Sax now?  We were surprised to discover there's a Costa Coffee and no Mr Smith, the babe on the bench is not Benjamin Britten although it is a bloke.

This web site was six on Saturday, our first report was reubens opening at the back of the Framlingham Crown.  We forgot all about it being our birthday.  Can we forgive ourselves?  Well at least we avoided the urge to have dodgy clip art of balloons, cakes and sprinkles.

Hopefully in 2013 Fram market will stay a place to rant and drink good coffee, Earl Soham beer from its new Debenham brewery continues to bring its own joy, Maverick gigs proceed triumphally, the new Wickham co-op discovers it's not Ikea, roller derby find its way to coastal Suffolk (it's found Bury St Edumds and the west of the county with a US military connection), the great and good get greater and gooderer and near the coast continues to madden and endear.  Happy New Year!

A record 11,000+ visitors to this web site last month, perhaps it was our coverage of the Dunwich Dynamo?

07:03pm  What's that Skip?  You don't know what oxymoron means?  Don't worry Skip, it's a self contradictory figure of speech ... like ethical banking, sports personality or technology centre.

The truly green alternative to the iPod; no batteries, no USB, no mains adaptor, just wind it up and off it goes and on ebaY starting at just one penny!