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The Geoff Brown Charitable Trust - A site about Geoff Brown, a well known fundraiser based in Cumbria and Southwest Scotland. To date his charity has helped over 335 people. The Charity awards grants to local deserving individuals or causes.
Issinoho - Personal website of Nick Smith and Neil Riley - 'tech-trance' writers/producers of electronic music. Clever use of 'Flash'.
Bill Sykes - A chartered civil engineer and construction manager with 27 years experience in the management of an wide range of major engineering projects around the world. Home town - Cockermouth.
Alan Spedding's Home Page - Cooking information and recipes from Alan Spedding, who has appeared on BBC's 'Masterchef', 'Can`t Cook Won`t Cook' and Channel Four's 'Chef For a Night' programmes.
John Howard Jones - Home pages of John Howard Jones including contact information, original poetry and prose, family photos and family genealogy.
Peter Robinson's Website - Includes railways and photography, local history, industrial history and family history.
G0MTQ Amateur Radio - John Baker provides pages of interest to anyone interested in slow scan television, weather satellites, computer applications, mobile and portable operating and digital photography.
Fabracken Labrador Retrievers - A personal site by Anne Taylor of Windermere, describing with photographs her small kennel of Labradors who enjoy working, showing and having fun.
Sheila Fielder's Page - Personal site displaying artwork, writing (poetry and prose), family history, pets teddies and photographs.
P. J. Hill - Personal Website - The personal website of Peter J Hill, from Coniston, Cumbria. Family photos, websites he has written, and details of his PC services.
McDonald Family - Information about the McDonald family from Wigton.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Early to rise and early to bed. 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(Samuel Butler) Personal Pages Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Personal Pages All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Personal Pages "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Personal Pages Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Personal Pages "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Personal Pages Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Personal Pages Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Personal Pages Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Personal Pages If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Personal Pages Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Personal Pages "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Personal Pages "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken 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 Personal Pages When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Personal Pages "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Personal Pages
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