Good morning.
Regular listeners will remember that there’s someone who decorates the postboxes in our village regularly with seasonal #knitting and #crochet #art.
Well today I found out that it’s a woman!
I can’t pretend not to be slightly disappointed that it isn’t a man 
Maybe I should start making rival toppers and start a turf war?
The #Coomber schools #radio cassette pulls in the signal from #MidSuffolk even with just its internal #antenna (it does have to be in a particular part of the office to get any reception, but it works better than many modern receivers) #FM #VHF #BroadcastEngineering #CommunityRadio #Ipswich #Suffolk
Monitoring the #transmitter #telemetry, dynamic #RDS and the audio on a car radio from #MidSuffolk (it is good, no overdeviation and the endstage is staying at a constant temperature of around 35 degrees Celsius)
The new #transmitter I tested last week was installed at #Ipswich #CommunityRadio today in plant room of the general hospital (antenna is on maternity block) along with a SIM for a better LTE network, we now have full 50W output and full telemetry/control available via the PC (which also does #soundprocessing and #RDS ), so I can check all this is working (including keeping an eye on the FM deviation and TX endstage temperature) from home or my office 20 km away.. #BroadcastEngineering #Suffolk
@MelissaBearTrix this chap in my county had to update *52* #clocks at his house for the summer time change #Suffolk #horology
Driving home from the petrol station last night, I saw a juvenile #rat run past on a grass bank between the exit road and some automatic car wash. I saluted the rodent (which has far less impact on the #environment than I do in my motor car) 
30 high value #bicycles have been #stolen from a #bikeshop in Rushmere St Andrew (a suburb just outside #Ipswich in East #Suffolk) by sophisticated #criminals who disabled outside #CCTV and cut #Openreach cables (to prevent #alarms and CCTV activating).
Track has now had a formal prohibition notice from #WestSuffolk #Council and is closed until #investigations are completed
#Suffolk #Motocross #safety #coroner
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-03-20/motocross-track-closed-after-two-deaths-in-six-months
I was in this area myself just last week, I'm more surprised the driver found anywhere that didn't have parked cars both sides of the road and space that would even permit driving >30mph
Not sure if turning the #A14 into the #M14 would be a miracle cure (a Northern bypass for #Ipswich does make more sense, but won't happen overnight) - either would only provide fairly short term gains, they would soon fill up with traffic!
A wider problem is bad #driving during the time pressures of the rush hour - more businesses should adopt flexible working to alleviate this (the lorry drivers are already working 24/7)
The way the article read I'd thought it was a surreal combination of a Chinese takeway *and* a car wash (operating as one business), but the reality is #immigration enforcement have been busy across the whole of #Suffolk and #Norfolk (I wonder if these business have been grassed up by their own customers?)
Fore! #Suffolk #Constabulary are investigating a different kind of bad #driving in #Felixstowe - someone has been yeeting #golf balls at the #Landguard #Fort causing damage (its a listed / protected ancient building)
Although the #bridge closure would have been inconvenient, I had a look at what this #forge / #blacksmith makes and its not that large/heavy items (vehicles over 7 500 kg are forbidden from the bridge anyway) - I do wonder if it was a coincidence his business had trade decline and the real reason is even relatively middle class folk are skint, and simply can't afford artisan forged garden ornaments? #Suffolk #roads #transport
Two #fatalities in 6 months at this #Suffolk #motocross circuit (although before that apparently none for 24 years).
Probably a combination of a male-dominated macho culture plus overcrowding on the track (I wonder if the owners are struggling with costs, and allowing more riders on the track than there should be for safety?)
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-03-10/second-death-in-six-months-at-motocross-circuit
Bizzare #vandalism - someone has taken the effort to climb a light column on #pedestrian refuge in middle of the village and obscure keep left #sign with grey paint (they have also done the same to smaller sign on the #bollard, can't be seen in photo due to darkness). Seems more sociopathic than normal #graffiti (maybe someone pissed off the refuge is there in first place, it discourages speeding through the village, or angry that the local Speedwatch have put up a camera nearby?) #Suffolk
Some gammon is claiming logistics/warehouse businesses in *Mid #Suffolk * (a good 15-20km from #Ipswich) are not employing locals but staffed by "hordes of #Chinese citizens from the mainland".
If any of that were in the slightest true, I would have noticed this - I'm always driving around the area and I'm near enough only #ESEA person there other than my own relatives and a few local healthcare workers, (many of whom work at same place as me!)
