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October is the month when meat is abundant, when hearty casseroles and stews, as well as pies and savoury puddings appear in Restaurants menus. In my days as a chef I was often given pheasants, or venison and sometime wild boar to cook for parties of hunters. In the 60s and 70s there were some ...

With the warmer days of September passed, the autumn has now definitely arrived. Temperatures have dropped and it is a lot colder. It’s a beautiful colourful time of year, with the trees changing colour. Sometimes it may seem pointless raking, when the wind blows even more leaves onto the lawn, ...

Eighteen minutes after takeoff a plane crashes into the Atlantic and only two people survive, a middle aged man and a four-year-old boy. As rescuers search for wreckage and bodies, an investigation into what happened is just beginning. Narrated in the present, in interconnected chapters, ...

For those of us who live and work in Cranleigh and the surrounding areas, we can probably remember the time when we fell in love with the place. We live in an area of stunning natural beauty. It could have been a gradual process or an immediate one. Perhaps you were born here and still live in ...

(Above: Wheatear (also known as Northern Wheatear) Oenanthe oenanthe (male in spring plumage) I fancied a chat so I went out at what looked the right time - and eventually had one. All by myself. Well, in fact I had three. No, I’ve not been going mad and talking to myself. But when the ...

Philip Scriven is the organist in residence at Cranleigh School. Widely regarded around the world as one of the most talented organists of his generation, Philip combines his job at the school with his post as Principal Conductor of the Darwin Ensemble Chamber Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor and ...