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October is the month when game is plentiful in both butchers and supermarkets. Rawlings, the Cranleigh butchers, usually offer 4 oven ready pheasant or mallards, for £10. A great offer! For the first and main course recipes I will be using one pheasant and one mallard plus a small quantity of ...

'The central characters are intriguing, and there is a genuine air of mystery!' - Amazon Reviewer The Challenge is a riveting adventure thriller about an internet game gone wrong. Ben's been grief-stricken for his best friend, Will, who abruptly vanishes from their village a year ago. But ...

The garden, next to the children's play area on Snoxhall Fields, will be opened on Saturday 10th November at 11.00am by the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Surrey and former High Sheriff, Robert Napier. It will be a simple affair with a WW1 poem read out and the Last Post. Background: The Centenary ...

Recently an old friend and lifelong art dealer visited my studio, René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils. It was a sociable visit as I know that his dealing activities are firmly located in abstraction, particularly of the English 1950’s artists and onwards into contemporary, conceptual and ‘cutting edge’ ...

‘Where Poppies Grow’ is an anthology in poetry, prose and music of the war and is a commemoration of the 1914 - 1918 Armistice. It is performed by members of the Ewhurst Players and friends. The First World War produced an enormous outpouring of poetry, prose and many songs that have become part ...

It happens so simply. You’ve got your plan, you know what you’re going to grow and where to grow it, you’re ready to plant – but somehow…you fall behind. So what do you do when it happens? Well, you could give up on the idea of fresh vegetables this year – or you could amend your plans a little and ...