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Sutton Group - Home improvement company supplying both trade and retail customers and providing a broad range of DIY products.
Homebuilding and Renovating - Online version of UK self-build magazine. Articles and advice, discussion forum, and land finding database. Product information and links to relevant companies.
Ebuild - Self build, DIY and house renovation guide. Includes building plot finder, discussion forums and books, along with a supplier directory and what's on guide.
Building Advice Centre - Expert advice and professional support for home building, house extensions and renovations, from initial design through to final completion.
Home Building 4 All - Resource for homebuilders and extenders. Information on building a home, including building regulations and the cost of building a house. Paid subscription required for most of the site.
Build It - Offering self build information and features, practical advice, case studies and useful links.
Gablecross Ltd. - Enables self builders to locate land and building plots. List of services and contact details.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Do-It-Yourself The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Do-It-Yourself "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Do-It-Yourself Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Do-It-Yourself Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Do-It-Yourself "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Do-It-Yourself "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Do-It-Yourself "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Do-It-Yourself We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Do-It-Yourself Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Do-It-Yourself Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Do-It-Yourself "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln Do-It-Yourself "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Do-It-Yourself "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Do-It-Yourself No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Do-It-Yourself The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Do-It-Yourself Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Do-It-Yourself My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Do-It-Yourself May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Do-It-Yourself A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Do-It-Yourself Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Do-It-Yourself Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Do-It-Yourself
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