I have been reading “The Great Good Place” by Ray Oldenburg. Oldenburg was a sociologist working in America at the end of the 1980s and this book is very much of that time and that place.

For a small town in the Surrey Hills, Haslemere has a remarkable connection with one of the significant artistic and social movements of the latter part of the 19th century.

When the word ‘unprecedented’ has become a cliché then you know you are living in interesting times.

Haslemere is an amazing place to live, surrounded by beautiful National Trust land with an old and picturesque town centre and a strong cultural heritage.