The Bield United Kingdom - Self-catering holiday accommodation in rural location. Brief details of facilities and contact details.
St Nicholas School - Primary school forming part of the Sturminster Newton pyramid. Overview of classes with example of pupils' work.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Child Okeford "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Child Okeford
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Child Okeford "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Child Okeford
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Child Okeford blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Child Okeford
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Child Okeford "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Child Okeford
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Child Okeford Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Child Okeford
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Child Okeford By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Child Okeford
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Child Okeford Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Child Okeford
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Child Okeford A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 Child Okeford
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Child Okeford Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Child Okeford
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Child Okeford Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Child Okeford
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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Child Okeford Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Child Okeford
