I Heart Dorking
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 the winter when everything seems so much hassle and trains are failing left right and centre.
I’ve done some soul searching about why I definitely love Dorking and don’t want to move, and should probably buy the t-shirt or mug to prove it. I have just spotted the website that sells I Love Dorking merchandise (Dorking About - great idea of a site but maybe needs a little technical attention - I know a man who can FYI) and I’m really please to find another site that doesn’t slag it off so much as the perma-miserable Dorking Town Blog, although you can glean a certain amount of gossip from the comments posted there, I’ll give them that.
Photograph courtesy of www.dorkingabout.com:
Reasons why I Heart Dorking:
Muddy Paws Petshop - the friendly owners know you want 10kg of Iams Light and a huge back of wood pellet cat litter just by looking at you! Love them!
The lovely higher-end gift shop Blacks (no website) who stock nice leather goods, Calvin Klein jewellery and watches and best of all Georg Jensen homeware and gifts:
Seeing the Surrey Hills from the High Street:
and having goslings and other wildlife on your doorstep and the ‘honk’ of the geese as they fly over each evening:
I really like the fact that from almost wherever you are in Dorking you can see the hills, been here just over 18 months and it still gives me pleasure every time I catch sight of them.