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It looked like a spaceship from the seventies. Bright yellow and black, with a clear Perspex panel in the top so that you could look in to inspect the eggs inside. Every so often, you could hear it whirring into action, turning its plates with a low rumble, from its corner in the back of the boiler ...

‘Croak, croak croak!’ Hear that sound this month and you will probably be looking down into a pond of breeding frogs. But you may just need to look upwards too. Now I am unaware of any flying frogs in the Cranleigh area. But I have been recording increased sightings in the last few years of a ...

Marion lives in Shamley Green and has been making costumes since 1971 for the S.H.A.D.E.S Drama society, which she and her husband have been involved in for over 20 years. Marion became inspired by period costume after handling over 3,000 theatrical fancy dress garments for David Clarke’s ...

(Above: Cranleigh’s two banks facing each other across Rowland Road. George Selfe was cashier at one or other of these.)   Several Cranleigh people, very varied in type, appeared before the Hambledon Appeals Tribunal in Guildford this month, hoping to be exempted from compulsory military ...

Prep: 30 mins Cook: 45 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 6 Ingredients. 75g butter 100g golden caster sugar 2 vanilla pods, seeds scraped out 3 Bramley apples, peeled and chopped 600g rhubarb, cut into even chunks 100g stem ginger, finely chopped clotted cram sprinkled with ground ginger ...

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 2 Ingredients. 250g leek (about 3 small ones), thinly sliced 85g mascarpone 1 tbsp chopped dill, plus 1 tsp 2 Skinless salmon fillets 1/2 lemon, grated zest of 1/4, plus a good squeeze of juice. 2-3 tsp capers Baby potatoes and ...