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February is often thought as the month of love, culminating on the 14th with the advent of Valentine’s Day. The day is celebrated every year as an opportunity to demonstrate our love for our partner, over and above all else, but of course there are many other kinds of love that we experience in ...

The Greenfinch, that chirpy House Sparrow sized-visitor to the garden and bird table, is in trouble. I was seeing up to 140 in flocks around farms in the Cranleigh area only 18 years ago. And until recent times this tubby songster put in daily winter appearances for just about everybody who cared ...

Ingredients 2 Chicken breasts (2 x 150 g washed and dried) 80g stuffing (see below) 4 slices Parma ham, cut thin 50ml double cream 25ml dry Marsala (or sherry) 100ml strong chicken stock 200g mirepoix cut small (onion, celery, carrot, bayleaf) 25g butter with a little oil Salt and ...

From an early age Simon Smith loved sport, from tennis in the back garden, dreaming of a Wimbledon final, to football on a patch of grass in front of his house, dreaming of playing for Arsenal. He ‘saw the light’ aged 11 after starting rugby at Gowerton Grammar School in Wales. He wanted to play ...

The Ottawa Beavers (very young Scouts), from Cranleigh,  and  St  Lawrence  Beavers,  from Ewhurst,  undertook a night walk around Elm- bridge and Knowle Park on a spookily  dark evening in December  and successfully raised over £ 300 for Help the Heroes. There were over 40 Beavers, Leaders ...

New Year’s Day Walk started at 10.30am at St. Nicolas Church car park, 38 people and 7 dogs enjoyed a very pleasant 2 hour walk across the countryside south of Cranleigh, going past Holhurst Manor, across to Garstones and on to the old Canal. We then crossed the road past Utworth Manor and home ...