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Blunham - A description of the village with photographs, and links to other local sites and genealogical sites.

Blunham - Offers a brief history of the village and its church and includes local genealogical links.

River Ivel - Provides hydrological data measured at the local station.

Abbey Corrugated Limited - Supplies corrugated board to the packaging industry. Describes the business, products available and quality control. Includes a product catalogue.

Manor Farm Leisure - Leisure fishery. Describes the lakes and their fish. Also includes information on equipment and corporate events.

Blunham Village - Steve Harris offers a photographic tour of the village and its history. Also includes cricket club pages.

Blunham Boyz - Five/Seven-a-side football team. News, profiles and history of the club.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Blunham "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Blunham He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Blunham Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Blunham Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Blunham "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Blunham "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) 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. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Blunham The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Blunham When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Blunham If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Blunham The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Blunham To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Blunham Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Blunham "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Blunham To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Blunham "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Blunham The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Blunham blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Blunham The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Blunham They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Blunham When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blunham When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Blunham
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