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When working in a hotel in the South coast I had to provide meals for the guests going to Glyndebourne Concerts, well known for their sumptuous picnics on the lawns of the famous House. The recipe below is a modest (but still interesting) version of the Pique-Nique I prepared for a well known ...

Dreaming is something we all do when we sleep at night and sometimes during the day - even when we are meant to be working! Are you a daydreamer? Dreams can be good or bad. Mostly they are a great way of escaping from the fast pace of life, taking a moment to relax and regenerate our minds and ...

This year’s Surrey Hills summer family concert will take place on Saturday 1st July at 6pm at Cranleigh Village Hall. The concert features the Surrey Hills Singers (Mum’s choir) , Young Voices and Training Choir and promises to be a fantastic evening with a programme suitable for all the family. ...

Woodcock on a search for food This month, weather permitting, provides probably the last chance of the season to witness one of the magical moments in UK birding. And it unfolds right here on our doorstep. The Surrey heaths are one of the best places to see this impressive spectacle - and those ...

(Pictured Above: A 1957 Chevrolet, full restoration and converted into a Hot Rod) I was born in London in 1956 and lived in Putney for most of my childhood. When I was young my family didn’t have a car and my dad never had one either so we were restricted to push bikes. I really hadn’t travelled ...

(Pictured Above: Major Eric Bonham of Knowle on ‘Grey Lady’, painted by Alfred Munnings (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum) After two years’ service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Gallipoli, Egypt and France, Cranleigh man Rennie Crick was allowed his first leave – ten days’ – in July 1917. ...