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Friend and Colleagues of Cranleigh Health Centre have been busy for months collecting recipes. Now the book is on sale in the hospital shop at £3 and if you at to know what dishes our nurses recommend together with Cranleigh's great and good, get down there and buy one.

It was the brain child of Cranleigh's district Nurses to produce a book that would raise money for the new hospital. District Nurse co-ordinator Lynda Brennan has written the preface saying some of the recipes are healthy ones but admits: "We don't always practice what we preach." She thanks everyone for their contributions in particular the local celebrities who had kindly supported the venture with their favourites. She also pays tribute to her colleagues - who had somehow found time in their busy lives to produce some mouth watering dishes that everyone can now enjoy.

The book is divided into Starters, Main Courses, Puddings, Cakes and Cookies and a few miscellaneous recipes for a lovely Elderflower Champagne, My rice and Piccalilli. Anthea Turner's Aubergine and Herb Casserole looks good and Barbara Starkey (Ringo Starr's wife) has provided a recipe for Tofu Broccoli and Mushroom Quiche, sounds just the thing for vegetarians. But it is District Nurse Lynda Brennan's Chocolate Brandy Cake that comes with a health warning - Extremely moorish and very fattening - that looks like becoming a firm favourite.

No book would be complete without Lady Myra Secombe's input from her Welsh homeland her Bara Brith is definitely worth a try. The book has a nice wipeclean cover is all set to become a firm favourite with local cooks.

Stuck for ideas on the ideal Cranleigh Christmas gift? A former village policeman thinks he may have the answer.
Ray Holt, has already sold 300 copies of his first book of poems entitled "Looking Over My Shoulder." Lady Myra Secombe launched the book in aid of Cranleigh Hospital, Cancer Research and The Parkinson's Disease Society in April and the charities have already received £250 each.

When the village bobby had a faraway look in his eyes his colleagues at the local nick said: "Ray's gone into poetry mode."
Now after a decade of writing poems his book with introductions by Lady Secombe Trust patron Julie Walters, Canon Nigel Nicholson and illustrated by Matthew Robertson is a must for the old and not so old Cranleighans.

He has painted a picture in a charming and evocative style of some lovely old Cranleigh characters.
While the poem "in a Cranleigh cottage bedroom" brings tears to your eyes, laughter is only pages away in "Listen" and "Charlie" - The bushy moustache, a smiling face, The trilby hat and feather, the wood truck and his bicycle; A kindness hard to measure. He liked the Cranleigh bonfire night, the procession to the guy; and now I miss his cheery face and sparkle in his eye. Cranleigh on Summer Nights, The Country Verger and When I found home, all reveal the love and affection one man, who often walked Cranleigh's empty night time streets, had for the village he made his home. There is real pathos too in I cry (for England) in which he says much about the way things were and what might have been. A favourite is an Independent man - a tribute to John Wiskar - "when stars shine down on Cranleigh you can sometimes smell his pipe, wafting gently around the flower beds until darkness turns to light.

This is more than just a collection of poetry; it is a little snapshot of Cranlegh's history.
Ray's fondness for Cranleigh and its inhabitants come across on every page. Every home should have one.
Ray describes his labour of love as a book about Cranleigh, middle England, life, death, and about being a village bobby.
He expresses real sadness and real joy about a world that was and may never be again.
The illustrations by Matthew Robertson are a delight. and compliment Ray's work.

A limited edition of signed copies of the book will be released later, but copies at £7. 99 are now on sale at the Hospital Shop, in Cranleigh High Street, Cranleigh Cards and the Book Shop.

Although there are presently 60 shop volunteers, manning the shop during the summer holiday period may prove more difficult.

Any offers of help should go directly to Christina Pearce The Administrator at Oliver House, High Street, Cranleigh 01483 276121