August Dorking Talking – the holiday edition!
Join us on our summer holidays with a visit to London Zoo and one to Dorking Caves, a trip to the Lake District with Beatrix Potter, and an animal quiz. We walk in the woods, pop into the theatre – oh and no holiday’s complete without Dad going through his repertoire of Dad jokes, so we’ve got some of those too.
July’s Dorking Talking
July’s here – tipping us into the second half of the year. This month we check out sight loss and driving; as well as lighting in your home, and ask if St Swithin will bring us rain or shine. We bring you guide dogs, weeds and windmills and take a look at the Shard. And we discover that suffragettes were responsible for Morris dancing as we know it today – yes really!
It’s all here: just click the “Latest Magazine” button to listen .
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls latest
- Vision and Driving
- Age Concern in Mole Valley over 75 years
- Making best use of light indoors
- Chester the guide dog
- Suffragettes & Morris Dancing
- St Swithin’s Day 24th July
- Buckland pond clearance
- Vets’ tips for a Heatwave
- Conquering Concrete
- Buckland Only Wind-powered Sawmill
- London Beyond Sight: The Shard with Steven Berkoff
- July Thought Beauty is all around
- Endpiece
Welcome to sunshine, strawberries & cream…
Welcome to June, summer sunshine, strawberries and cream – well, that’s the idea.
It’s Macular week this month – meet Stella Black of the Macular Society to find out about her work and the support groups she runs. Then we look at access for guide dogs, the Brigitte Trust and local Land Girls as well as lawns and lawn tennis. That’s all as well as what’s going on in Dorking not to mention our Shepherdess and her ghost!
Just click the Magazine Listen Here button to hear all about it.
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High Street Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Stella Black, Macular Week
- Access for Assistance Dogs
- Land Girl memories of Buckland
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- All the Fun of the Fairs
- St James the Least Kitchen in Church
- Brigitte Trust 40th anniversary
- Floella Benjamin
- Visit to Dorking
- Long & short of it: lawns
- London Beyond Sight Wimbledon Final
- St Barnabas Feast Day
- Thought for June: Journeys
- Endpiece
April’s here – a magazine full of Spring activities!
April’s here and we’ve got plenty of ideas for your leisure time: theatres with great shows to be enjoyed, local music-making and an assortment of activities to join in around the area. We learn about home eye tests and who can get them, and find out about a holiday company making abroad accessible for people with sight loss. We visit the Old Vic Theatre in the company of Sir Derek Jacobi, celebrate a saggy, baggy old cloth cat and ask the vital question: to gnome or not to gnome?
- April Welcome & Birthdays
- Coming Elections and How To Vote
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Polka Theatre Easter Holidays
- Leith Hill “A Lark” Dorking Dramatic & Operatic Society
- Do You Qualify for a Home Eye Test?
- SeeAble Holidays
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- Keeping Cut Flowers Beautiful
- Bookham Tree Lovers
- Buckland litter pick & pond clearances
- Surrey Youth Games
- West Horsley Place Easter Activities
- To Gnome or Not To Gnome?
- Bagpuss
- Derek Jacobi describes Old Vic Theatre
- Thought for April: Passover
- Endpiece
It’s March – Spring is on the way!
Hello Spring! A little sunshine here in Dorking and the promise of more to come – doesn’t it just lift the spirits?
This month we feature loads of information and things for you to do – keeping you up to date on the town and local events. There’s technology being tried out by Guide Dogs – robotic K9 anyone? – our shepherdess is lambing and Dorking Museum joins the Surrey Yeomanry. Mark Rylance takes a loving look at the Globe Theatre Gates, made here in the Fire & Iron Gallery, and we’ve got plenty of fun and smiles on offer too. Just click the link to listen.
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Dorking Museum in March
- CAB Energy Bills Advice Line
- TV Licence Scam
- Kathy Atherton On Surrey Yeomanry
- Robot Guide Dogs For Real?
- Suggested New Dog Breeds?
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- St James Least: Glebe into Allotments
- Looking Back 50 Years To 1974
- Atlas Love Poem
- VOCALEYES Mark Rylance Gates of the Globe Theatre
- Bonkers Blind Moments
- Dr Monella’s Retirement THURZA
- Lent Thought For March
- Endpiece
February’s Dorking Talking
Crocuses peeping round the cockerel, Dorking’s chilly but there are flashes of sunshine, and maybe snow in the forecast – it must be February and time for the latest Dorking Talking.
We catch you up on news from the High St and what’s coming up at the Dorking Halls, we’ve information about your TV licence, hear from Blind Veterans and take an entirely different look at the Palm House in Kew Gardens. We celebrate 200 years of Braille, find out how Shepherdess Jo Chaytor’s getting on in her new farm and ask what St Valentine actually had to do with February…
- February Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High Street Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Buckland Winter Lunch
- News from St Martins
- St James the Least being uncomfortable
- TV Licence What You Need To Know
- What Did Valentine Have To Do With February
- Recipe Hot Cross Bun & Butter Puds
- Blind Veterans
- Blind Veterans UK Charity
- Braille is 200 years old
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- The Real Meanings Behind the Blurb
- London Beyond Sight: Palm House, Kew
- Leap back in time for RHS Wisley
- Lent Thought from Mickleham
- Endpiece
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Happy New Year from Dorking Talking!
Happy 2024!
Join Dorking Talking as we celebrate optimism and new beginnings. It’s the start of a new year, our Shepherdess Jo Chaytor has just taken on a new farm, the National Trust’s Clandon House is in the throes of rebirth, and Rosamund Dean is a cancer survivor approaching life in a new way. And although it’s now the end of the holiday season, we’ve saved up a few favourite jokes and stories to take us smiling into 2024.
- January Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- New Year ‘Resolutions’
- High St Update & Dorking Halls What’s On
- London Beyond Sight: Elizabeth Tower
- Rebuilding Life After Cancer
- New Beginnings: Clandon House
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- Managing Central Vision Loss
- Peter White on Desert Island Discs
- Naughty Doorbell Pastor
- A Few More Inches
- Those Old-fashioned Aprons
- Thought: Look Forward to the New
- Endpiece
Christmas Dorking Talking
Dorking Talking joined Dorkers at the Very Dorkensian Event on Saturday
Christmas is coming – and are you ready for it? Dorking Talking’s here with tips for VI shoppers and ideas on how to keep your Christmas costs down. Christmas trees, Christmas pud, a musical quiz, cracker jokes and chocolate too. Can you afford to miss it? Come on and join us – just put on your Christmas jumper or paper hat, click the button and enjoy!
Dorking Talking in November
Catch up with what’s going on and what’s coming up in Dorking. This month we also look at village life, now and in times past, and hear how audio books developed. And, with Remembrance Day just around the corner, we reflect on the aftermath of armed service, living with blindness and still making the most of life.
- Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dk Halls What’s On
- Remembrance events in Mole Valley
- Little Ruby Crane, St Dunstans
- Royal British Legion Industries
- Para Nearly Knocks Over King
- Would I change my Blindness
- Penny Melville Brown Blind Baker
- Top of the Hops
- Coldharbour Village Magazine Oct 1892
- Compton Phone Box
- History of Audio Books
- EuroTunnel Trauma!
- Violinist on the metro
- Thought: Remembrance
- Endpiece
- Infoshorts #41
- Infoshorts #43
September’s Dorking Talking
Dorking’s Talking in September. What are we talking about? This month we feature some nooks and crannies of the town, the effects of climate change on eye health, and making bus travel easier. And we celebrate outdoor art and traditional crafts from sculpture to hedge laying.
- September Welcome
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Can Climate Change Affect Eye Health?
- Blue moon
- Easier Bus Travel
- Heritage Open Days: Writing On The Wall
- Local craftsman Gerry from Westhumble
- Hedges & Hurdles – country crafts
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- Great Train Robbers 60th anniversary
- Three Men in Boat visit Maze
- Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
- Thought for September
- Endpiece
- Infoshorts #33
- Infoshorts #35