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
  19. Endpiece

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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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  19. Infoshorts #41
  20. Infoshorts #43

September’s Dorking Talking

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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.

  1. September Welcome
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls Whats On
  5. Can Climate Change Affect Eye Health?
  6. Blue moon
  7. Easier Bus Travel
  8. Heritage Open Days: Writing On The Wall
  9. Local craftsman Gerry from Westhumble
  10. Hedges & Hurdles – country crafts
  11. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  12. Great Train Robbers 60th anniversary
  13. Three Men in Boat visit Maze
  14. Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
  15. Thought for September
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  17. Infoshorts #33
  18. Infoshorts #35

Dorking’s Talking in August 2023

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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

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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…?