It can be one of the hottest months of the year. Therefore we need to be diligent about watering our gardens and plants. It is helpful to use grey water ( ...

When we were young and still at school we often wondered what we would do when we ‘grow up’. The seeds of dreams are formed at a very young age and they ...

Prep: 15 mins Difficulty: Easy Cook: 55 mins Serves: 8-10 Ingredients 50ml extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for greasing 150g rye flour 100g spelt ...

Ideal for a poolside read, “Here Comes the Sun” captures easily the recognisable rhythms of Jamaican culture and dialect. Dennis-Benn has written a tender ode ...

  Prep: 20 mins Difficulty: Easy Cook: 45 mins Serves: 6 Ingredients 800g aubergines (about 3), sliced into rounds, then cut into quarters 4 tbsp ...

Cormorant Ramblers, dog walkers and mountain bikers around Cranleigh have been surprised when I’ve shown them the sea from the Surrey Hills, north of the ...

Nothing smells more like summer than a freshly mown hayfield. Even in winter, when the hay bales gathered under summer sunshine are broken into, the scent is ...

Sir Dirk Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde of a Scots mother and a Flemish father who was the art editor of The Times. The ...

A group of Cranleigh women – we don’t know their names – returned to the village on August 5th 1916 after a wartime adventure of their own. They had been doing ...

We have been thanking entities and industrious farmers for bountiful harvests since pagan times. Harvest is the time to celebrate reaping what we have sown ...