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St Oswald's Parish Church - Official church site, with information about the services, and a history of the Church.
Faeryland - A quaint, old fashioned, outdoor tea-garden situated right on the shore of Grasmere lake. Rowing boat hire is available also.
Rydal Hall - Carlisle Diocesan Retreat house and conference centre, with youth centre and camp site. The gardens, designed by Thomas Mawson, are open to the public.
Grasmere - General guide to the central Lake District village. Attractions, businesses, accommodation and events.
The Cumbria Directory Grasmere - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Grasmere Life - News, information, pictures, and places to stay and eat in Grasmere village.
Grasmere Festival of Stars - Annual festival every November in which the village is decorated with stars to recreate Wordsworth's poem "Home at Grasmere".
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What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Grasmere 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 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Grasmere Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grasmere If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Grasmere Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Grasmere My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Grasmere "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Grasmere Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Grasmere blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. 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(Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Grasmere In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Grasmere Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. 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