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Training Dragons With Cressida Cowell

By Flora Windebank Do you know how to train a dragon? Waterstones book shop was the place to be to find out when Cressida Cowell, acclaimed author of the How…

Have You Grown The Biggest Marrow For Loseley Park?

There can be photography, art and music competitions, but Loseley Park is offering children something more unusual – The Massive Marrow Competition! It is the annual Loseley gardening contest for under…

Cathedral Launches Organathon 2012

Guildford Cathedral is preparing for a 24-hour organathon in aid of its Music Development Foundation. Starting at 8pm on Friday September 28, the cathedral’s organ will be played by a…

Review: The Handyman – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By The Stage Dragon This play will will leave you pondering – for days – I expect. Award-winning playwright Ronald Harwood’s The Handyman kept the audience gripped throughout as it…

GuilFest Future Bleak as Company Ceases Trading

The future of GuilFest is in doubt after the news that the company that runs it has stopped trading. Numbers were down this year at the annual three-day music festival…

Book Review: Double Cross -The True Story of D-Day Spies by Ben McIntyre

By Phil Costen Ben Mcintyre introduces us to a group of eccentric fantasists involved in double and, possibly, triple-cross deceptions to convince, or reinforce, the Nazi high command view that…

Yvonne Arnaud Panto Cast – All Dressed Up With Three Months To Go

Report by Flora Windebank – Photos by John Schluter Dressed up as fairy princesses, magical genies and sinister baddies, the cast of the Yvonne Arnaud’s 2012 pantomime Aladdin looked ready…

Review: HMS Pinafore – Yvonne Arnaud

By The Stage Dragon Fans of Gilbert and Sullivan may be in for a few surprises with this inventive version of HMS Pinafore. The Opera Della Luna’s production took the…

Kids Love Skulduggery And The Author Too

By Flora Windebank Celebrated children’s author Derek Landy visited Guildford last week to give a talk on his new book Kingdom of the Wicked. It is the seventh book in…

Open House At The 100 Year Old Photographic Society

Would you like to take pictures like these? Guildford Photographic Society is holding an open house event on Thursday 20th September, for local photographers to get a feel for whether…