Friends Of Clayfield Copse - Voluntary group, formed in 1989 to help maintain and manage the woods and the adjacent area of woods known as Blackhouse Woods. News, projects and photographs.
Caversham Heights Society - Meet fortnightly from September to April for talks and presentations. Details of programme and visits.
Berkshire Community Foundation - An independent charity, raising money to create an endowment fund to provide grants to local voluntary groups. Information on the organisation and its activities.
Berkshirecam - Selection of photographs from around the county.
Silicon Corridor Linux User Group - Exist to support users of the Linux-based operating systems in Berkshire and the surrounding areas. Events, members directory and mailing list.
Resolve - West Berkshire Mediation Service - Provides mediative solutions to neighbours in dispute or crisis with each other. Information about services and contact details.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Society and Culture
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Society and Culture
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Society and Culture "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "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 Society and Culture
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Society and Culture We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society and Culture
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture
