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Paul Baker Photography - Website showing photography by Paul Baker. Includes also a section where clients can have their own wedding photographs displayed.
Village Link - The newsletter of Hotham, Everthorpe and North Cave. Online issues, events, directory, photo gallery and links.
Outreach - Outreach Christian Youth Fellowship providing resources and activities for the youngsters including a minibus. Withernsea.
Neil Thwaites - The Corn Dolly Man - A tribute to a well loved man who inspired many with his artistic talents, especially his skills in the craft of Corn Dolly making for which he became an international figure.
Karoo User Group - The Karoo User Group consists of a selection of Karoo users that regularly meet with Kingston Communications to discuss issues relating to Karoo Internet services.
Wawne Ferry - Site examines the History of Wawne Ferry which operated for over 800 years over the River Hull between Wawne and Thearne.
Support Groups - A directory of primary and secondary healthcare, user support groups, helplines and information centres.
Virtual Cruise of the River Hull - A 20 mile virtual cruise along the river, starting from Sammy's point and traveling to the disused Leven Lock.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Society and Culture Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller 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. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Society and Culture Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Society and Culture "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Society and Culture I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Society and Culture Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 Society and Culture Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Society and Culture Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
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