Eco Church is an exciting, award scheme run by A Rocha UK for churches in England and Wales. Using an innovative questionnaire/survey approach, it helps ...

by Penny Lynch The environmental toll of single-use cups is increasingly difficult to ignore.  While they seem convenient, the harm they cause to the ...

by Miki Marks There comes a morning in September when I open the front door and sniff the air, and can smell that autumn is on the way.  Horse chestnuts ...

by Miki Marks We had to make the booking for places on the Knepp ‘Safari’ months ago. The day finally arrived, warm and dry, with a slight breeze.   Knepp, ...

by Miki Marks // Main Photo: A Spittle bug nymph © Mark Matthews In May, the cuckoo is heard for the first time and on various shrubs, especially ...

by Miki Marks // Main Photo: Volunteer workers at Knowle Park There are signs of spring everywhere and I thought a visit to Knowle Park would be ...

by Miki Marks The old saying has it that if March ‘comes in like a Lion it  goes out like a Lamb’.  It can certainly be a very blustery month, more Lion ...

by Penny Lynch With household bills on the rise yet again, finding ways to save energy not only benefits the environment but also helps reduce your ...

by Miki Marks Somewhere along the Ewhurst to Cranleigh road in late autumn, I spotted a larch. The tree was a graceful shape and had turned a distinctive ...

by Gill Ford Amazingly it is 10 years since Cranleigh entered its first South & South West Britain in Bloom competition and we were very proud to be ...

by Miki Marks Do you sometimes feel that Christmas is just a commercial event and has no real meaning anymore?   Jane Struthers in her interesting book Red ...

By Miki Marks Where have all the earwigs gone? One fell out of my bird feeder about a week ago – and it made me think that it was ages since I had seen ...