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Made In Cumbria - Crafts and gifts from over 300 local craftspeople and artists.
Cumbria Libraries - Guide to the facilities and services of Cumbria Libraries, from Cumbria County Council.
DP Music Services - New interactive correspondence course in the theory of music, with a personal tutor of 20 years teaching experience. UK only at present. Also specialist tuition at Dalton-in-Furness.
Northern Cultural Skills Partnership - A central access point for information on training, professional development, business support, resources and funding for employees of cultural sector businesses in the North of England.
Eden Arts - Art galleries, studios, exhibitions in Cumbria. Many talented and creative artists exhibiting in delightful art galleries and studios in settings.
Abbot Hall Art Gallery - One of Britain's finest small galleries with important British art collections and a high quality programme of contemporary and historical exhibitions.
Blackwell - Britain's finest surviving Arts and Crafts house by M.H.Baillie Scott, currently being restored and opening to the public in July 2001 as a major crafts exhibition venue.
Graemes-view - Photographs of The Lake District and Cumbria. Greetings cards depicting Lakeland scenes.
Lake Artists Society - Member information and online exhibition of their paintings, history, shows. Annual summer exhibition at Grasmere in the Lake District, UK.
Potfest - Promoting ceramics in general and potters in particular. Details of two pottery exhibitions in Cumbria, details and examples from the exchibiting potters, and pictures of previous exhibitions.
Woodbutchers Anonymous - Commissioned work in wood from John Crofts. work includes furniture and sculptures, and is sold through galleries and exhibitions. Photos of his work.
Heritage Open Days in Cumbria - Directory and brief details of the properties open to the public under the Heritage Open Days scheme.
Andy Goldsworthy - Sheepfolds - A major Cumbria-wide sculpture, landscape and environment project with the internationally renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. Details of locations, with descriptions and photos.
Cumbrian Bands of the 60s - A tribute to the many bands playing in Cumbria in the 1960s.
Lakeland Opera Company - Professional, fully-staged opera in a number of venues in Cumbria. Details of the comnpany, and forthcoming productions.
The Yarl River Jazz Band - Website of a Dixieland band playing regularly in the North West of England features details of forthcoming gigs and MP3 downloads.
Lakeland Photographs - Landscape photographs of the Lake District and surrounding areas by Nathan Atkinson. Prints available to buy online, and wallpapers available to download. Gallery of pictures.
If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Arts and Entertainment "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "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) Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Arts and Entertainment A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Arts and Entertainment It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Arts and Entertainment I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain 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 Arts and Entertainment No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Arts and Entertainment The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Arts and Entertainment Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Arts and Entertainment It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson 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 Arts and Entertainment Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Arts and Entertainment "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Arts and Entertainment I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Arts and Entertainment
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