Did you know?

...that the feet have about 250,000 sweat glands capable of producing about one cup of sweat a day?

Incidentally, today is international Lost Sock Memorial Day. There are few mysteries in life that are as perplexing as the mystery of the missing sock. No matter how hard you try to keep pairs of socks together, invariably one of them ventures out into the netherworld never to be found again. So today is time throw out all the single leftover socks.

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Today's Peninsula sunrise: 05:08

Today's Peninsula sunset: 20:33

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Tide times:

• 01:23 4.01m

• 07:16 0.1m

• 13:48 3.9m

• 7:36 0.3m

All clear on the Strand

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Today's weather:

Sunny with a moderate breeze. Top temperature 20C. dropping down to a low of 10c.

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Orwell Bridge: Open

Check 40mph update

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Today's Post Office Openings:

Shotley: 09.00 – 13.00

Chelmondiston: 09.00 – 17.00

Holbrook: 10.00 – 16.00

Brantham (village hall): Closed

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Today's food shop openings:

Holbrook Co-op: 07.00 -19.00

Brantham Co-op: 07.00 – 19.00

Premier Stores Shotley: 08:00 - 19:00

Premier Stores Wherstead: 08.00 – 19.00

Hollingsworth's: 09.00-17.00

Orwell Stores: 07.30 – 16.00

Suffolk Food Hall: 09.00 – 16.00 Click and collect available Stutton Community Shop: Order and collect options.

Woody's Butchers: 09.00-16.00

Please don't stockpile, respect social distancing rules and treat shop staff with respect.

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Holbrook and Shotley surgeries and dispensaries.

From Monday:

Holbrook: 328263

Phone access only 08:00 – 17:00 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 08:00 – 13:00 Thursday 08:00 – 18:30 Friday for urgent queries

Repeat prescription medication can be collected from 08:00 – 11:00 Monday to Thursday and 15:00 – 17:00 on Fridays. Additionally, those over 70 can collect from 14:00 – 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Shotley: 787435

Phone access only 08:00 – 18:30 Monday to Thursday.

Repeat prescription medication can be collected from 08:00 – 11:00 Monday to Friday and 15:00 – 17:00 on Monday to Thursday. Additionally, those over 70 can collect from 14:00 – 15:00 on Monday to Thursday.

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For food deliveries, or prescription collection please contact your local support schemes:

Brantham Good Neighbours(GNS) 07811 630899 

Chelmondiston GNS 01473 780408

Holbrook Helpers 07999583017

Shotley & Erwarton GNS 07799873381

Stutton Network 01473 327753

Tattingstone 07895052086

Or call Babergh's Home, But Not Alone line 0800 876 6926 and a locality officer will connect you with a volunteer, or just to chat.

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Live travel updates: Road and rail

Bus services:

Check here for Saturday timetable

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See which businesses are still operating with our Peninsula Business Directory:

Add your business or community group to our Local List[.]

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"O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."  Albert Camus

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Riddle of the day:

Sometimes I am loved, usually by the young, I'm in hate, when you get old. Everyone has me if they like me or not. What am I?

Answer will be revealed tomorrow.

Previous Riddle Answer:

A girl is at the funeral of her mother. She meets a nice guy that she didn't know who also was at the funeral and they hit it off. She was busy at the funeral and didn't have time to ask him for his number before he left. She tried really hard to track him down, but no one knew who he was or how to contact him. A few days later her sister dies and the police suspect it to be a murder. Who killed her sister?

A – The sister, in the hope the man would come to the funeral.

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