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Steeple Claydon - Village community website for 'The Claydons' villages. Offering discussion, history, news events, photo gallery and means of contact.

East Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of East Claydon.

Middle Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of Middle Claydon

Steeple Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of Steeple Claydon.

Steeple Claydon Football Club - Information about the club known as the Magpies. News and events, fixtures and results, statistics and contact details.

Claydon House - National Trust property page with information about opening times and facilities. Links to events at this property and location map.

Florence Nightingale: Claydon House - An article by Lucinda Lambton about the house and it's association with Florence Nightingale.

The Raffles Gamelan at Claydon House - An article by Sam Quigley about a fascinating set of instruments and their providence now on show at the house.

BouncyPartyHire.com - Bouncy castles, marquees and giant games for hire for parties and other events. Photos, details and prices of products, delivery area map covering parts of both Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire with delivery costs, plus some frequently asked questions answered and means of contact. [Twyford]

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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Steeple Claydon "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Steeple Claydon Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. 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(Francois Sagan) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Steeple Claydon Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. 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