Some news of the upcoming festival, to be held on Sat/Sun the 28th and 29th June, is filtering through to the website:

The art exhibition will be open between 11am and 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, with a preview evening on Friday the 27th at 7.30pm, and features 6 paintings by well-known local artist Maggie Hambling.

The flower festival at the church will be open on both days between 11am and 5pm. Lunches & teas will be available, and Blaxhall Archive Group will have a display.

There will be an evening of music in the church on Saturday 28th at 7.30 pm, featuring music for all tastes provided by Tony Roy's new benefice music group (their debut performance).
The British Legion training Band conducted by ex-Blaxhallite Richard Wilding will also perform.

The service on Sunday at St Peters will be a benefice service, starting at 11am, all welcome. Keep an eye out for the shepherds who will be directing visitors.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust, who manage Blaxhall Common, will also be at the church over the weekend.

Please do come along and see our festival, the culmination of many hours work for many in the village. There are several reviews of festivals past in the Archive section of the website.

(Updated below) After Private Fundraising, Major Renovations and General Building had finished, the new hall was opened as planned on a glorious May day.

Florrie Shaw and Peter Fletcher cut the commemorative cake.

The plaque will be mounted in the new entrance hall.

Update: Ebb and Flow readers may notice the photos of the event were supplied by Blaxhall.com, high resolution versions are available for download for those interested.

Frosty mornings are not yet a distant memory, but the summer ball is nearly upon us. Tickets for the event are now available from Joyce, Graham and Nigel, up until the 29th. There will be a licensed bar and Buckshee will be providing the music for the event on the 31st. The picture links to a bigger image of the flyer.

Swallows have been seen in Blaxhall over the Bank Holiday weekend, and if they did indeed arrive back so recently they certainly chose the right time to enjoy a glorious spell of weather. Long may it last.

After several years of blood sweat and tears the village hall renovations are finally complete. The official opening of our splendid new facility will take place on 10th May at 2.30pm.

We learned today that the Beversham road from Blaxhall to Little Glemham (U3822) is to be closed from 10.30pm on 22 March in order that the level crossing can be repaired. The work is expected to last around 12hrs, but may take up to 18 months. Yes - you did read that correctly :-)

It happened on a still, foggy February morning.
I was out walking with a friend when the slightly menacing bark of a distant chainsaw cut through the air. As we approached the church the sound grew louder, and once inside the gate the outlines of vans, trucks and men up trees became visible through the mist.
Some days later, all became clear. The fog lifted to reveal the stumps of once mighty branches, while
word trickled through the village that the old oaks were deemed dangerous; branches, apparently, might fall off and hit people on the head. So it came to pass, that for the first time in two thousand years the clergy took action to prevent an act of God!