November’s Dorking Talking

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It’s that time of year and we’ve got spooks and spiders for you, together with clock changes and Remembrance. We’re out of doors with bees, a new sensory garden, and sheep (hopefully not eating the garden!). And we hear about how sight loss might open up new worlds for visually impaired people as well as about a new App which uses the soundscape around to navigate by. Just click the Listen Here button to join us and hear all about it.

  1. Welcome & Birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls What’s On & Ashtead Players Spirit Level
  5. Dorking Christmas Fair
  6. Soundings Vision Loss Opening a New World
  7. Happy Birthday Sight for Surrey Helpdesk
  8. Using Soundscape to Navigate
  9. GMT clock change
  10. St James the Least – Changing Hymn Books
  11. Jo Chaytor Shepherdess
  12. Buzzing in the Garden
  13. West Horsley Place Sensory Garden
  14. Spider Webs in Autumn
  15. VocalEyes: The Cenotaph Alastair Stewart
  16. Unsung Heroines – women ATA pilots
  17. Thought: Remembrance of All
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August Dorking Talking – the holiday edition!

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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

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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 .

  1. Welcome & birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls latest
  5. Vision and Driving
  6. Age Concern in Mole Valley over 75 years
  7. Making best use of light indoors
  8. Chester the guide dog
  9. Suffragettes & Morris Dancing
  10. St Swithin’s Day 24th July
  11. Buckland pond clearance
  12. Vets’ tips for a Heatwave
  13. Conquering Concrete
  14. Buckland Only Wind-powered Sawmill
  15. London Beyond Sight: The Shard with Steven Berkoff
  16. July Thought Beauty is all around
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Welcome to sunshine, strawberries & cream…

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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.

  1. Welcome & birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High Street Update
  4. Dorking Halls Whats On
  5. Stella Black, Macular Week
  6. Access for Assistance Dogs
  7. Land Girl memories of Buckland
  8. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  9. All the Fun of the Fairs
  10. St James the Least Kitchen in Church
  11. Brigitte Trust 40th anniversary
  12. Floella Benjamin
  13. Visit to Dorking
  14. Long & short of it: lawns
  15. London Beyond Sight Wimbledon Final
  16. St Barnabas Feast Day
  17. Thought for June: Journeys
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April’s here – a magazine full of Spring activities!

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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?

  1. April Welcome & Birthdays
  2. Coming Elections and How To Vote
  3. Anniversaries
  4. High St Update
  5. Dorking Halls What’s On
  6. Polka Theatre Easter Holidays
  7. Leith Hill “A Lark” Dorking Dramatic & Operatic Society
  8. Do You Qualify for a Home Eye Test?
  9. SeeAble Holidays
  10. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  11. Keeping Cut Flowers Beautiful
  12. Bookham Tree Lovers
  13. Buckland litter pick & pond clearances
  14. Surrey Youth Games
  15. West Horsley Place Easter Activities
  16. To Gnome or Not To Gnome?
  17. Bagpuss
  18. Derek Jacobi describes Old Vic Theatre
  19. Thought for April: Passover
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It’s March – Spring is on the way!

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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.

  1. Welcome & birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls Whats On
  5. Dorking Museum in March
  6. CAB Energy Bills Advice Line
  7. TV Licence Scam
  8. Kathy Atherton On Surrey Yeomanry
  9. Robot Guide Dogs For Real?
  10. Suggested New Dog Breeds?
  11. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  12. St James Least: Glebe into Allotments
  13. Looking Back 50 Years To 1974
  14. Atlas Love Poem
  15. VOCALEYES Mark Rylance Gates of the Globe Theatre
  16. Bonkers Blind Moments
  17. Dr Monella’s Retirement THURZA
  18. Lent Thought For March
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February’s Dorking Talking

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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…

  1. February Welcome & birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High Street Update
  4. Dorking Halls What’s On
  5. Buckland Winter Lunch
  6. News from St Martins
  7. St James the Least being uncomfortable
  8. TV Licence What You Need To Know
  9. What Did Valentine Have To Do With February
  10. Recipe Hot Cross Bun & Butter Puds
  11. Blind Veterans
  12. Blind Veterans UK Charity
  13. Braille is 200 years old
  14. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  15. The Real Meanings Behind the Blurb
  16. London Beyond Sight: Palm House, Kew
  17. Leap back in time for RHS Wisley
  18. Lent Thought from Mickleham
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Happy New Year from Dorking Talking!

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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.

  1. January Welcome & Birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. New Year ‘Resolutions’
  4. High St Update & Dorking Halls What’s On
  5. London Beyond Sight: Elizabeth Tower
  6. Rebuilding Life After Cancer
  7. New Beginnings: Clandon House
  8. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  9. Managing Central Vision Loss
  10. Peter White on Desert Island Discs
  11. Naughty Doorbell Pastor
  12. A Few More Inches
  13. Those Old-fashioned Aprons
  14. Thought: Look Forward to the New
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Christmas Dorking Talking

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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

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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.

  1. Welcome & Birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dk Halls What’s On
  5. Remembrance events in Mole Valley
  6. Little Ruby Crane, St Dunstans
  7. Royal British Legion Industries
  8. Para Nearly Knocks Over King
  9. Would I change my Blindness
  10. Penny Melville Brown Blind Baker
  11. Top of the Hops
  12. Coldharbour Village Magazine Oct 1892
  13. Compton Phone Box
  14. History of Audio Books
  15. EuroTunnel Trauma!
  16. Violinist on the metro
  17. Thought: Remembrance
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