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Blandford Youth Centre - Mainly photographic record of the goings on at the centre.
Blandford-Mortain Twinning Association - Twinning organisation between Blandford Forum and Mortain in Normandy, France. Arranges visits and cultural and sporting exchanges. Details of membership and events.
Great Dorset Steam Fair - The official site for this annual steam fair held on a 500 site at Tarrant Hinton, near Blandford. Includes general information on the attractions and events that make up the Fair. Also includes details of how to get there, advance bookings for the Fair and associated campsite and local accommodation. Online discussion forum available for all to use.
Great Dorset Steam Fair - Heavy horses, vintage tractors, and an incredible line up of Showmans Engines at night.
Blandford Georgian Fayre - Official site of the Blandford Georgian Fayre. Includes details of this years event, how it all began, and pictures from previous fayres.
Blandford Fencing Club - Meeting times, costs and club history for this sabre salle.
Gathering Place Christian Fellowship - A place for spiritual renewal at Blandford Forum.
Blandford Forum Film Society - Provides information on membership and the current programme, along with an archive of the previous season. Screenings at Blandford School.
East Street Dental Practice - Opening hours, fees, information on private care, location maps and advice sheets.
Blandford Hockey Club - Match fixtures, results, team photos and news.
Blandford Scout Group - Information, events, pictures and contact details.
Royal Signals Museum - A Museum located on Blandford Camp which is just outside the town. Details include Museum access and opening hours, location, charges, facilities, equipment, history of the museum and contact details.
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Williams) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Blandford Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Blandford "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Blandford Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Blandford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Blandford 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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Blandford "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Blandford Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Blandford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Blandford Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Blandford Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Blandford The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Blandford We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Blandford "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Blandford "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Blandford The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Blandford If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Blandford People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Blandford This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Blandford Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Blandford
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