fr 29 Jun

House sales quiet again, Mouth to Mouth Theatre at the Kettleburgh Chequers tonight and the First Responders go live Monday and they already seem an experienced lot.

sa 23 Jun

The Mid Summer Madness Half Marathon has run it's sweaty course including a proper race walker and now it's FREE merry japes on the Pageant Field with this evening five assorted rocking bands and they're FREE too this year.  Enjoy!

fr 22 Jun

th 21 Jun

Sgt Bob talks about burglary, the First Responders tonight are getting ready to go live, towards the end of last year's Hacheston Bygones Earl Soham Brewery were giving away free beer and you never know ... it might happen again this Sunday.

Hopkins Homes are having a public exhibition July 11th (venue to be decided) about "Proposed Residential Development for Bibbys/Walnes Site".

fr 15 Jun

Four unidentified local ladies at last weekend's Race for Life in Ipswich, the docs are speed blood sampling, there will be a Suffolk Punch on the hill tomorrow morning (thought we heard somewhere and foal?) and the Bentwaters Cold War Museum is open only one day this month ... but it's this Sunday!

mo 11 Jun

Brundish Lodge Farm has an exquisite location (apart from the occasional motorbike racketing down the B1116), a load of arable, a herd of some thirty Red Poll cattle, some beautiful horses and at the end of yesterday's farm walk young Christopher Wells produced armfuls of ferrets.  Previously we would have thought that's the sort of activity you probably wouldn't get life insurance for but his six charming animals have made us review our opinions.

sa 9 Jun

There were all sorts of teddy jumpers, bruiser teds who dived off head first, nutters who let go of the parachute, elegant little numbers who floated down gently, teddies who had to be rescued from the church roof and trees and you just can't help smiling.  Let's hope it happens again, maybe an annual event?

we 6 Jun

... and while we're in heart of the community country Tracy Clifford has resigned as a town councillor due to "pressure of work"  ... well she does work for Roy.

Last month was our busiest ever with 11,584 visitors, teenage disorder or not and why has someone from Bargain Hunt joined the constabulary?

tu 5 Jun

A beetle drive (no, we're not sure what they are either) at the Con Club this Saturday and how flattering, one of the Asian Outlaws has visited the board.

sa 2 Jun

Could have done with some more faces at Stugig last night but Stuart's mum said they'd raised £700 for the Kariandusi School Trust.  Stuart's sister's hairdresser was the mc and bands Allied Force and one : day : life (the little punks were wearing in-ear monitors {TAKE THEM OUT!}) certainly cranked it out.

su 27 May

Lots of the action at the Masked Ball, very James Bond with the band masked and in evening dress as well.

PS: If you know Clare Mooney's mum can you tell her we will be snapping the princesses tomorrow.

th 24 May

The fourth most common reason last year an ambulance was called from Fram will certainly surprise you, perhaps even shock ... impressive average response time though for our comparatively remote community.

sa 19 May

John Bridges is signing (books! not waving his hands about!!) in The Crown this morning and last night Don't Dance on Glass were tearing the place up.  In Farnham it was quiz night and, as everywhere, the raffle winners were pleased to win.

sa 12 May

Not surprisingly Steph and Kevin are back for another year and having dismissed the Uke Orch as good but own up, it's really only one joke... no, we were wrong; they were excellent, very funny and we adored their version of Shaft.

fr 04 May

Agenda available for the Annual Town Council next Friday (that's when a chairman is elected), merry debate about Solar on the board and no results yet from yesterday's election.

10:45am  Results starting to come in but not Fram yet.

12:15pm  Declaration in and not surprisingly the Cons hold but impressively Eddie Thompson for the Greens outperformed both Labour candidates.

th 03 May

Can't think of a nicer way to vote; in a caravan at the back of the pub with a very welcoming Clerk and Presiding Officer, though Muffin at the Badingham polling station was doing his best.  The four polling stations are open till 10 pm  and you don't need your poll card to vote though it helps.

we 25 Apr

The Rev Graham Owen is now Rector of St Michaeel's and despite being dead John Donne raised over a £1,000 Sunday for the Toilets in the Tower (a bit like the Princes in the Tower but different).

mo 16 Apr

Yesterday eighteen greyhounds turned up for the walk, Christina finished yesterday (Reliable Rob's turn next week) and this web site reappeared on the old host, rather erratically, during the afternoon ... it must be getting dizzy!  Tomorrow's planning agenda is available and can anyone help this lady from Austria?

su 15 Apr

A massed greyhound walk 11am this morning at the Woodland Trust near Great Glenham (info here if the board's back) and the Habeas Corpus last night party last night had plot driven cake.

th 12 Apr

Sadly local community copper Andrea Honeywood will be retiring tomorrow (we will miss you Andrea) but the new Safer Neighbourhood Teams will ensure the tranquil calm of our charming market town continues to cascade gently down the watercourse of life ... except when it doesn't.

mo 9 Apr

Yesterday's rehearsals of FADS' prod of Habeas Corpus (starting tomorrow, on all week) were going brilliantly yesterday.  Our companions were giggling away like billy-o at the back.  I only ever saw him once, by the light of a post coital Craven A.

The builders will make the courtyard at the back of The Crown a no throughway from tomorrow until Friday week, and bingo starts up at The Con Club on a weekly basis from this Friday.

sa 7 Apr

Lovely sunny morning on the Market Hill with newspapers outside the Dancing Goat and dancing to the busker.

We've heard unofficially that the town council election will be uncontested;  ten nominations, one of which is a new face, for the thirteen places and regrettably we suspect that means the tc will have to reapply for quality parish status in a couple of years time.

mo 2 Apr

We couldn't make the South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band concert on Sunday (partly because of the London Blitz) but we did make Saturday's rehearsal and the combination of sheer size and all that youthful enthusiasm certainly kicks bot!

sa 31 Mar

There were a lot of people at the skate park for the official opening and Gemima from Parham has won a Blue Peter badge at her third attempt and she's not the only BP badge in her school.

fr 30 Mar

Their new offices may be small but they are perfectly formed and have a toilet and to remind us they have moved the Volunteer Centre had an open evening last night (lovely canapés).

Everybody welcome at the skate park tomorrow for pro skater Pete King, the free tickets comp for Sunday's concert closes at noon, there are already ten people signed up for First Responders, and having pointed out Tuesday (no finger buffet but coffee and a Danish) how much safer we all are in our beds the constabulary have shut down Police Direct ... though to be fair it's not their fault.

sa 17 Mar

Annual Cardboard Day

fr 16 Mar

Red Nose Day in Fram

fr 9 Mar

5pmish The B1116 is closed immediately after the Easton turn off because of a very serious road accident.  There is a sea of emergency services including the police and ambulance helicopters.  Three vehicles were involved.

7:45pm: We've slightly edited the above, see the board.

Saturday:  Major edits to the above, see the board.

fr 23 Feb

Taking the short cut out of the castle moat can be interesting in this muddy weather and one of the nice things about the skatepark is that differently aged skaters mix in.

We dropped in briefly on the Development Trust's agm last night which had a bigger crowd than last year.  Dawn Easter seems to have to departed into the middle distance and some woman from Harleston was going on about delivery.

we 21 Feb

Gamey and Nick Jenkins were discussing Leslie Dolphin's Radio Suffolk show last night in The Station.  As it's the BBC Gamey's taking his own biscuits and if you miss him this lunchtime you can listen again here ... nice choice of record Gamey!

sa 17 Feb

Nick Jenkins gives us a nice plug on Radio Suffolk.

 tu 13 Feb

White Water are on the bill at this year's MSM and now have a vid on You Tube (including a pic pinched from this site:).

Gamey is on Radio Suffolk tomorrow week.  His pic of a hornet's nest in Waldringfield Heath won the British Pest Control Association photographic competition ... but he's still waiting for the prize.

The yellow hats were still drilling this morning, Socks(y) the cat is missing and missed, why did Princess Margaret visit Fram? and all this snow only seems to be north of Woodbridge.

Because of the chicken flu up the road (not to be confused with chicken beer) there's a Sky news team staying at the The Crown including Robert Nisbet, Paul Harrison and Paul Brennan, ... mmm ... three presenters?  Must be bigger than we realise ... anyway we're still going to the Enduro ...

... and it was good fun and we think we're beginning to understand what's going on!

The bulletin board will go all funny 3-4pm tomorrow whilst Fish upgrades the software and for the first time all the oil paintings in public ownership in Suffolk have been catalogued.

sa 27 Jan

Apologies but this website has been so popular it became unavailable 9:45-11:00am this morning with a 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.  We've slapped a temporary fix on (good thing we work weekends) and we'll nudge Trevor whose company has offered us a free dedicated server ...

... Framlingham in Oz has been having its own problems.

tu 23 Jan

The Day the Gas Went Off

mo 22 Jan

The yellow jackets are back again, all will be revealed at the end of Feb apparently; a freedom of information request has revealed Suffolk Coastal's  hit count last month, cakes and pasties preferred for that market vacancy and did the Queen ever visit Fram?  (We do know that's the Queen Mum on the right, it was the first thing they taught us when we went to North London Poly.)

sa 6 Jan

As promised everybody was plied with cake at last night's town council meeting including Specials Graham Durrant and Nick Hunt who had just popped in to deliver CPO Andrea Honeywood's written report on December (eight reported crimes {burglary and criminal damage} with four detected {that's five times more detected than the national average}).

we 3 Jan

As the boats have now gone out Darren will have fish this Saturday, that terribly interesting article in last month's Framfare about the bulletin board is now available here and Lindy Hop or Ceroc at this year's Arts Fram?

mo 1 Jan