Dorking, Food, Photographs

I have recently been struggling with accepting that I have to commute 1.5hrs on a good day, every day to London to a job that I broadly love, from a town that I broadly love too. ‘Wasting’ 3hrs of my life every day on a train was beginning to be a pain, particularly in [...]

One of the advantages of living in a lovely sleepy town is that not a lot happens. Some might say that’s a bad thing, but I get my kicks when I’m in London.
Two news items that caught my eye recently were these:
‘Dorking restaurant manager risks life to stop death plunge‘
Clearly an incredibly selfless act [...]

Homemade icecream has always been something I’d like to do. We’ve made sorbet before using the plums from a garden tree, but it didn’t involve any churning, so it had the wrong texture.
This week we’ve added to our Major portfolio and now have the ice-cream maker and the multi-mill for grinding coffee beans, spices [...]