earlier in Woodbridge

Yesterday afternoon a man entered Fat Face Woodbridge, threatened staff with a knife, demanded money and then removed the till himself before leaving on foot.  The suspect is a male aged 30s to 40s, of slim build, has dark brown hair and was wearing dark clothing including a puffer jacket.  Any info that could assist contact CID South quoting 37/68044/23, you can call 101.

♫ We've enjoyed a concert performance of HMS Pinafore with a single piano accompaniment.  When the diverse instruments (including timps) fired up the Pinafore overture at the Ipswich G&S Soc rehearsal last night we grinned with pleasure.  The show starts a four day run tomorrow at the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge (though ticketing is by the Wolsey).

Just outside Woodbridge the Pumpkin Patch runs until the end of the month and in Woodbridge Community Hall next month a Collectables and Flea Market.

Common Ground's autumn tour gothic murder mystery The Hellgate Club is set in 1905 Paris.  Dates set near the coast include Halesworth, Woodbridge and Wingfield.

Similar to Framlingham's allotment expansion Woodbridge town council are looking for land to become allotments.  Friend of ntc Peter Brockett has suggested the proposed Stackton Tressel allotment expansion should be careful Woodbridge tc don't snipe the land behind the Trouser Museum.

There are house sales for the last two years sorted by road and street for Framlingham, Saxmundham, Wickham Market, Woodbridge and now Melton.

A shed in Pytches Road Woodbridge was broken into between 4pm Wednesday 1st and 8am Tuesday 7th December and a Metabo steel burnishing tool stolen.  Any info you can call police on 101 quoting crime ref 37/69497/21.

Overnight between 10pm Monday 25 October and 8am entry was made to a locked vehicle parked on Portland Crescent Woodbridge.  An untidy search was made but nothing was stolen (crime ref: 60062/21).

A Renault vehicle left insecure on Naverne Meadows Woodbridge was entered between 6.30pm Monday 25 and 8am the next day.  The glove box and central console were searched but nothing was stolen (crime ref: 60076/21).

Any info please contact police quoting the above crime ref, you can call 101.

A bit disorientated yesterday afternoon by the service entrance to Woodbridge School now being a housing estate.  Using the main entrance we found the matinee of Sherlock Holmes meets Count Dracula in the Seckford Theatre.  Appreciative applause and constant laughter from a decent house and the expected daftness from a Common Ground show, our favourite was the Count's two wives.

There would appear to be a vintage market on Woodbridge Quay Saturday.

Perhaps surprisingly house sales active around near the coast in Saxmundham and Wickham Market but not Woodbridge.

Woodbridge  - Two Attempted Burglaries

In Hall Farm Close Woodbridge around 2:40am Saturday 22 May the victim reports someone was repeatedly hitting their front door as if trying to gain entry.  Crime number: 37/27253/21.

The previous incident is being linked to an attempted burglary on Cumberland Street Monday 24 May.  At about 6.20pm the victim was at the rear of her property when she heard someone using force to try and enter via the front door.  The victim opened the door after five minutes but didn't see anyone in the street.

Positive attitude from Life Arts who have a Woodbridge Mind Body Spirit Festival planned for April.

In the Woodbridge Thoroughfare after 25 years the Leather and Sheepskin Shop closed in the spring, the Firestation Cafe also closed but more recently and the new to us New Street Market looks very attractive and appears to contain an outpost of the Pump Street Bakery ... they do have a fan club.

Usual lazy media patronising shite that anything not metropolitan is cutesy, this time Woodbridge and Framlingham,.. mind you they managed to show Fram Castle without the sound of recorders and lutes.

♫ Saturday the Suffolk Singers directed by Claire Weston will present their concert Autumn Interlude at St Mary's Woodbridge.  The programme will include works by Macmillan, Rutter and Stainer.

ArtDog London have a show at ArtSpace in The Thoroughfare Woodbridge running tomorrow until next Wednesday.

 JOBS  Wanted in Framlingham a junior project manager, in Debenham a 14 month contract accounts assistant and in Woodbridge a booking administrator plus at Jewson at a customer service advisor.

A Folk & Beer Hootenanny in Woodbridge this weekend though it's not clear whether it's Saturday or Sunday.

Today pretty much all day in Elmhurst Park Woodbridge (that's the rather nice park by the car park at the back of what's now the Co-op supermarket) it's the Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music with zones and Antony's Coffee Pod. ♫

The Woodbridge garage on the A12 getting a makeover is still closed and looks like it will be for a while.

 JOBS  A weekend barista and waiting person wanted at the The Tea Hut Woodbridge and relief doorman/men being recruited in Framlingham where it got a bit warm yesterday in a conservatory.

It snowed in Woodbridge this morning and we took shelter in The Tea Hut by the River Deben.  The river makes bits of Woodbridge surprisingly boaty.

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!

It must be well over a decade since we saw an Eastern Angles Christmas show and we don't recall the now available free parking at the rear of the Ipswich theatre but it's still a small cast working their socks off.  Saturday it was five actors who had Fenland Screamers tightly polished prompting laughter and applause from the audience.  We got to be part of a rope bridge and had an actor sit on our lap ... unfortunately not one of the ladies.  The show continues this month including a run at the Seckford Theatre Woodbridge.