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Terrence Stone, BCAv, retired Engineer and Sea Cadet I was born in 1952, in Chiswick Hospital, Middlesex. My early years were spent in Shepperton, living in a caravan with my parents and sister Teresa, who is 3 years older. We weren’t travellers; we lived in a caravan on a proper caravan site.  ...

By Joy Horn (Main photo - Dr Arthur Napper and his son Harold, outside Broadoak) This walk will take in various medical sites and the three houses where Cranleigh’s early doctors lived. It is about one level mile long, with resting-places.  It starts in Horsham Road (B2128), outside ...

Boing boing! I’m all of a bounce despite the awful winter weather we’ve been having. Freezing fields, driving rain, biting winds and local floods - not helped by the stench of leaked sewage in some of our water courses - put paid to many a day when I’d planned to enjoy the fresh air. But all ...

By Simone Conti Bruschetta with plum tomatoes, olives and goat's curdServes 4 as a snack, Serves 2 as a starter This month I was really undecided regarding what recipes to publish, so I had some help from my daughter Emma. Thank you darling for being my little helper and helping me to keep ...

By Penny Lynch We all know that eating a diet that is full of organic food is healthier for us. Organic food is generally richer in nutrients and of course it does not contain the pesticide residues that most other fruit and vegetables do. But, we also know that not everyone has the budget to ...

By Miki Marks Ronald Blythe died in January this year – at the age of 100 just after a new book of his writings was compiled and published, under the title, Next to Nature. He lived in Suffolk in an ancient farmhouse called Bottengoms – a house that had belonged to the artist John Nash. The ...