Surlingham

The Bramrocks’ latest play is a British farce set in a vicarage in the 1960s.  According to the publisher’s reviews there is ‘never a dull moment’, it is ‘fast  paced and entertaining, and laugh out loud funny’.  Some sneak previews of the current production indicate that this is likely to be recreated here, on our doorsteps in the Margaret Mack room at Rockland St Mary this coming Thursday,  Friday and Saturday  (11th, 12th and 13th May 2017) at 7.30pm.  Tickets £6 from Rockland shop.  Bar available, and ice creams in the interval.

Lost in Church Lane or Marsh Walk, a gold chain with pendant stone.  Of great sentimental value.  If found please use Contact us or call Pippa on 01508 538245.

Information received from Pippa Thurlow

Just a reminder that the recently formed Friends of Surlingham church would like to invite you to an open afternoon on Saturday May 6th any time between 2.30pm and 4pm for tea/coffee and cakes and to see what has happened to the church building in recent years.  The Friends aim to to support and encourage the use of the church by the local community.

Everyone is welcome.

Post placed on behalf of The Friends of Surlingham Church.

Most visitors to Surlingham.org come from the UK, but we do get a trickle from overseas. Sometime this is local people keeping in touch whilst on holiday, and we know we have interest from Australia because Susannah Holmes, one of the first Australians, was born here. However, if you are reading this from overseas we would be very interested to hear from you about your connection with Surlingham – do please use CONTACT US to tell us who you are.

Surlingham.org celebrates its fifth birthday this month.

The 1115 news posts since inception have publicised the usual range of local activities: from pilates, to pantos, quizzes to regattas, but have also included tracing ancestors and peahens (yes), a 100^th birthday party, flood warnings, reporting water outages and road diversions. Surlingham.org is a community web site in that these posts are placed by about 15 representatives of local groups and organisations, rather than a single administrator. Whilst 186 people with an interest in Surlingham are currently signed up to receive these posts directly by email, the site is also visited by well over a thousand unique IP addresses each month (that’ s a phone, tablet or computer). To sign up just click the + Follow in the very bottom right of the window.

If you want to publicise an event, or require a post placed do use CONTACT US to get in touch. A village calendar endeavours to keep track of all events which are going to take place.

And as a fifth birthday special –  a few Surlingham.org statistics, courtesy of WordPress

• Most popular month ever: September 2016 had 1483 visitors. It included The         Surlingham Festival
• Most-read post: Driving in the village (Oct 2012) has been viewed 930 times -Traffic calming is still an issue.
• Views (=pages or posts) over the years: 2012 – 14822 views, 2013 – 25446 views, 2014 – 38099 views,   2015 – 39098 views, 2016 – 54113 views , 2017 – 20814 views (to April incl.)