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Rob's Guide to Real Ale Pubs in South Cumbria - Guide to finding good real ale pubs in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. Site provides ratings for pubs visited.
Cumbria Credits - Community regeneration through the development of IT skills. A network of Community Development Centres spread throughout Cumbria, providing a range of services to meet the needs of local communities, and which contribute towards their social and economic regeneration.
Heversham Grammar School Old Boys Society - To give anyone who had an association with Heversham Grammar School an initial point of contact into the Old Boys Society, and to point prospective and new members in the direction of Smartgroups.
The Pubs of Cumbria - A listing of names, addresses and phone numbers of all the pubs in Cumbria. From Pub-UK - the Internet directory listing all the public houses in the United Kingdom.
The Rural Women's Network - Exists to provide support and advice for rural women who are seeking work or who are hoping to enter self-employment. Training opportunities, news, discussion board, and diary of complementary therapy drop-in sessions.
Jackie Attwood Lake District Live in Jobs - Finds work in the catering trade which can offer live-in accommodation for travellers on working vacations.
Lakeland Dialect Society - The objects of the society are to encourage interest in dialect speech in the writing of verse, prose and drama. News, publications, dialect glossary, and counting sheep in Cumbrian.
Cumbria Workplace - The recruitment and career development website for the Cumbria region.
New Frontiers - A network of organisations working in partnership throughout Cumbria who offer a free, professional and impartial information, advice and guidance service on learning and work to adults between the ages of 18 - 64 who live or work in the county.
Morecambe Bay Partnership - A partnership of local people, agencies, authorities, industries and voluntary bodies who work together for the good of Morecambe Bay.
The Friends of the Lake District - An organisation established in 1934 and dedicated to protecting and conserving the Lake District, and which campaigned successfully for its designation as a National Park.
The GonMad Dictionary of Cumbrian Slang - A light hearted, tongue in cheek look at the language of Cumbria, NW England. By Dan Gibson.
Pentalk - A scheme to provide free computers and IT training for farmers and their families. For sale and wanted section, farming links, and news.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Society and Culture Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln 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 Society and Culture In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Society and Culture Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Society and Culture Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "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, A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Society and Culture "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Society and Culture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Society and Culture
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