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
Dorking’s Talking in August 2023
What’s Dorking Talking about this month? Well, we’re planning for Heritage Open Days in Mole Valley, we’ve got advice on how not to let fraudsters help themselves to your money, and meet Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and other Paralympians campaigning for disability rights. We support the Air Ambulance with a cuppa tea and join the fight to keep ticket offices on stations open. We make hay with Jo Chaytor’s little flock of sheep in Coldharbour and hear about a man who may be deafblind but is nonetheless a successful portrait photographer.
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July’s Dorking Talking
Join us for this month’s magazine to hear about making transport more accessible, how to avoid being scammed, and all about the St John Ambulance. There’s a cluster of events to put in your diary, we reveal shorn sheep, the mystery of riverside rights and the curious life and times of post boxes. And whatever happened to those church door keys…?
Welcome to the June Magazine
Summer’s definitely here with ice cream weather and in Dorking Talking this month we celebrate ice cream’s history and also the many variants of our national cuppa. We hear about help for both cataracts and macular disease and a project helping adults with learning difficulties move into the world of work. And we enjoy the riches of our wonderful Surrey Hills with bees, sheep, trees and grasslands.
- June Welcome
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Music for Coronation
- Cataract Awareness Month
- National Tea Day
- ALDAG Helping Adults with Learning Difficulties
- Macular Society local group
- Ice Cream History
- How Theatres Coped in Wartime
- Dorking Manor book prize – Thurza
- Too Much of a Wood Thing – Plant Life
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- Bee Friends
- Surrey Coalition for Disabled Access to Nature
- Trio of VI Heroes say Try Something New
- Thought for June
- Endpiece
- Infoshorts 21
- Infoshorts 23
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