Alanna Fraser

UK-based writer and proofreader. Versatile writer with experience spanning food, education, property, history and sport. Cambridge graduate (MA, M.Phil) in an essay-based subject: awarded first class honours with distinction in undergraduate degree.

Hythe Life magazine • 22nd November 2016

Everest: the Deadliest of Days

They say that fortune favours the brave - and the Gurkha motto is, 'better to die than to live a coward'. Lady luck should look particularly kindly upon Gurkha soldiers...

SHE magazine • 1st February 2006

Reveal your secrets

We seem to have a lot to feel guilty about today, but maybe that's because we've become much more open to the outward expression of our feelings - even to...

Hythe Life Community Magazine • 30th August 2016

Hythe Life Food Festival

Take an abundance of artisan food and drink producers. Whisk in a line-up of talented Kentish musicians. Sprinkle with sunshine. Place in the glorious location of Hythe Cricket Ground for...

Kent Gourmet Hampers blog • 27th March 2017

10 Great Picnic Spots in Kent

Kent has something for everyone when it comes to al fresco eating. From the rolling countryside of mid-Kent to the shimmering coastlines in the east, incredible feats of human engineering...

Hythe Life • 22nd May 2016

Hythe's Golden Girl

Usain Bolt and the late George Best share more than just legendary status in their respective sports: they are both prime examples of what the Romans described as 'nomen est...

Proplumb advertorial

Advertorial written for Proplumb, a high-end bathrooms' specialist.

Hythe Life • 22nd November 2015

Saltwood's Grisly Past

kentgourmethampers • 19th July 2016

Hythe hits the top of property hot spot list

What does Hythe have in common with the urban metropolises of Manchester, Birmingham and Leicester, the coal mining towns of Rotherham and Bradford and the commuter-belt favourites of Woking and...

kentgourmethampers • 24th July 2016

What’s In a Name?

For the most part, we tend to see the names of towns, villages and hamlets as no more than geographical markers to help us to get from A to B...

Hythe Life • 22nd August 2016

Hero of the Skies

2016 marks the 75th birthday of the Lancaster bomber, one of our greatest wartime aircraft. 94-year old Squadron Leader Thomas Page, DFM, who has lived in Hythe for 15 years,...