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Neil & Hazel McAllister - East Cheshire photographer specializing in video, wedding commercial and advertising.
Gorgeous Gus - Resource site for modern jive and swing dance in the Cheshire area. Workshops with a link to local Ceroc site and forthcoming events.
Double Vision - The Halton Millennium Photography Project - Exhibition of the work of two local photographers documenting the Borough and its people in celebration of Millennium Year.
Cheshire County Library Services - Local libraries, library services, events and campaigns.
Cheshire Churches - Large photographs by Bill Moston.
Dutton Hall - A historical resource and virtual photographic tour of the ancestral hall of the Dunton family.
North Cheshire Photographic Society - Location and contacts, subscriptions, programme, exhibition dates, competition results, newsletter, and pictures by members. The club meets in Poynton.
Photographs by Paul Morris - Photographer based in the county shows examples of his pictures, and links to other sites which include his work.
Moulton Drama Group - Amateur drama in the village of Moulton. Details of productions, events and contact information.
What's on in Vale Royal - An guide to arts events in this area.
Raw Music - Event guide, artist listings and local arts news.
Halton Libraries - Information about branches, services, and policies.
Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra - Amateur orchestra performing in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Information about concerts, rehearsals, and members.
DanceFX - An inclusive contemporary dance company where young dancers with and without disabilities work with each other and in the community to dance away differences and give disabled dancers career opportunities in dance work.
Artizana - Art gallery in Prestbury showcasing contemporary arts and crafts. Photographs of art, commissioning work, previous exhibitions, tourist accommodation and contact information.
de.bees music bar - Gig listings, messageboard, directions, photos and contact details.
Out Of My Mind - Original art and text. Mainly SF, but factual too. Also computer related help pages.
Cheshire Theatre Guild - Representing amateur theatre groups in Cheshire. Includes contact information for all member groups, diary of events, newsletters and information on courses held.
TIC Theatre Company - Three person, not for profit company with a community theatre programme. Background information, objectives and contact details.
The World Worm Charming Championships - The home of the annual competition held in Willaston, South Cheshire. Explanation of rules, previous winners and photo gallery.
Calico Jack - Folk band. Includes a history, profiles of members, and gig-listing.
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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "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) Arts and Entertainment Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Arts and Entertainment We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Arts and Entertainment One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "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, ignorance, g Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Arts and Entertainment "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Arts and Entertainment "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Arts and Entertainment "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings 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 Arts and Entertainment Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Arts and Entertainment For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Arts and Entertainment English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Arts and Entertainment No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Arts and Entertainment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Arts and Entertainment
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