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Welcome to my blog. I am a former local journalist who now works in PR and a Conservative and community activist in Woking and Horsell. This blog will keep updated on local issues as well as my interests and quirky news stories.

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Horsell gardens wanted

Anyone fancy a stroll around this? Thought not.

 This year’s Horsell Garden Safari in aid of Horsell Village Hall will be held on 19 and 20 June, which just happens to be the week before our wedding, so that kind of rules me out of opening up our garden, as I had hoped [...]

Spring’s in the air

Taking a moment out from politics, the past two days have definitely heralded spring, not just because we’ve had a bit of sunshine and been spared the frost but because the smell of sap rising in the plants is all around in the garden and beyond. I spent this evening planting my strawberries out [...]

Lack of activity

I’m really sorry about the lack of activity during the past week or so. I’ve been so busy with wedding preparations, various evening meetings and doing my CIPR diploma that it’s been difficult to find the time in the evening to update. I have a mock Critical Reasoning Test in at the beginning of [...]

Wobbling over Wolsey

The purchase of Wolsey Place has attracted a lot of debate in various places, including local Lib Dem blogs and a dismal Facebook group set up by UKIPpers, who have taken a break from blaming everything on Europe.

I’m disappointed that having agreed to it in council, some Lib Dems in Horsell are trying [...]

Carthouse Lane Allotments part II

I did say that I would return to the subject of the Carthouse Lane Allotments, although the target date for this application is not until the middle of February. It won’t be heard at the planning meeting on Tuesday – the agenda for that is now published.

Horsell Residents Association met on Wednesday evening [...]

Allotments in Carthouse Lane

Sorry for not blogging more, I’ve come down with a heavy cold over the last couple of days and haven’t felt like doing much.

I will blog on it more at a later point but a planning application for light industrial units and warehouses on the Carthouse Lane site, as well as 80 new [...]

Winter wonderland

Parts of the borough look great in the snow, apart from the horrible street furniture

Christmas is coming

Sorry I’ve not updated the blog as regularly recently – there’s a week gap between the last update and this one. It’s just because I can’t now update at work and evenings have been busy with the meeting glut before Christmas. Normal service will be resumed either before or after the New Year, depending [...]

Martyr’s Lane is safe

Surrey County Council announced today that it was no longer pursuing Energy from Waste Plants, known to you and I as incinerators, in Surrey. Thus ends one of the most expensive and fiercely fought policy battles in the area’s history.

There will be no incinerators in Surrey – including Martyr's Lane

The county [...]

Need for less speed

On Monday evening, I hosted Horsell Village Horsell Trustees and this clashed with both the Conservative group meeting and the Christmas panel meeting for Horsell of Surrey Police. I did however pop along to the first 25 minutes of the latter before dashing back home for HVH because I think it is important to [...]