Readers' poetry and prose

Surrey Life reader's comedy review: Comedy at the Cottage, Redhill

October 6th 2010

Surrey Life reader Veronica Pullen reviews Comedy at the Cottage, which, on the last Friday of every month, sees the Home Cottage pub, next to Redhill station, come alive with the sound of laughter

Surrey life, by Elizabeth Wyatt

Rating: 3

July 23rd 2010

I have been reading Surrey Life for the last year or so and thoroughly enjoy reading this publication, so have decided to send you a poem that I have written about the lovely county of Surrey...

Living in Surrey - The Friends of Littleheath Woods

Rating: 3

February 19th 2010

Described as ‘Croydon’s best kept secret’, Littleheath Woods is a 25.3 hectare patch of woodland, surrounded entirely by suburban housing in Selsdon, just south of central Croydon, and maintained by the Friends – a local conservation group

Living in Surrey - Riddlesdown Common and quarry

Rating: 3

February 17th 2010

Centuries ago sheep grazed on this once quiet and rural part of the North Downs. Situated on the outskirts of Croydon, Riddlesdown Common was home to a chalk quarry until 1967 but since then the area has become a valuable habitat for wildlife

An ode to Claremont Landscape Garden

Rating: 2

January 20th 2010

We receive all sorts at Surrey Life towers and were fortunate enough to take delivery of this poem about the National Trust's Claremont Landscape Garden in Esher by Surbiton resident Peggy Duke-Evans

Beast of Box Hill

January 20th 2010

A truly riveting read, Beast of Box Hill, left all at the office dying to know whether this contribution from Tadworth resident Lena Walton was fact or fiction. What do you think?