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Discover the goings-on behind the scenes at Surrey Life magazine, direct from editor Caroline Harrap's blog

Latest Blog Posts

  • The opening of an envelope... on Oct 30, 2009

    I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but, yes, you guessed it, it's been another busy week at Surrey Life, and in fact, beyond... Aside from the usual magazine mayhem, had to go to scary PR awards dinner in Brighton on Tuesday nig...

  • A wild week on Oct 23, 2009

    It's been another busy week here at Surrey Life, what with staff writer Matthew Williams doing a marvellous impersonation of Alan Partridge up in Norwich (see previous entry), and a whole succession of meetings. Undoubtedly my favourit...

  • One of those days on Oct 19, 2009

    Honestly, it just seems to be one thing after another at the moment in the Surrey Life office. No sooner do we get the boiler working again (at one stage, we very nearly renamed the magazine Surrey Ice) than the flamin' e-mail goes dow...

  • Bedroom farce on Oct 16, 2009

    With the November magazine safely off at the printers, I decided to pop along to the press night of Bedroom Farce at the Rose Theatre in Kingston yesterday (plus, was also the perfect excuse for a bit of retail therapy - though no...

  • The Twitterati on Oct 13, 2009

    Okay, am rubbish blogger - I admit it. Every morning I think to myself, hmm, will definitely do a little update today, but before I know it,  another day has flown past and it's too late again - and, somehow, the longer you leave it, t...

  • Ladies who lunch (and one bloke...) on Sep 22, 2009

    Good Lord, it seems I have a new 'profile' picture - that pesky web editor, Matthew Williams, has clearly decided that my old mugshot has had its day. To be fair, he's not wrong... The other photo had been my official Su...

  • Deadlines, Winnie the Pooh and martians (just another day at Surrey Life) on Sep 16, 2009

    Well, who could possibly have predicted that the October magazine would turn out to be the biggest one for over a year? Not me, for one, which meant another fairly hair-raising deadline week - to say the least. Having already gone up 16 pages at...