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The Ivor Novello Appreciation Society - Founded to perpetuate the great man's memory and to foster the appreciation of his prodigious legacy of music, films and plays. Based in Quedgeley.
Gloucestershire Arts Online - Guide to the arts in the county, including events listings, dance, drama, pottery, painting, from major theatres to individual artists .
Gloucestershire Music Service - The service provides tuition to over 7500 young people and adults. Twenty Orchestras, Music Centres, Wind Bands and Jazz Bands cater for over 1100 members at all levels of attainment. They run the Gloucestershire Young Musician Competition.
Gloucestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra - For students from Gloucestershire schools and colleges.
CAT FM Online - Local music radio station, with preseenter, programme, and playlist information, local news and sport, property and car database, holiday finder, and community group pages.
Ann Kilminster - Specialises in paintings and sculptures of gundogs, especially flatcoated retrievers.
South Gloucestershire Libraries - Features a list of local libraries and the services they offer.
Berkeley Castle Meadow Concerts - Features a programme of events and ticket booking.
Kit and Boodle Band, The - Traditional British folk band. Includes mp3 files and information about the band.
Billy Danters Fun Fair - A local funfair family. Features games and a diary.
HPT Hetty Pegler's Tump - barn dance band - Playing live Celtic and English traditional music for barn dances
Paul Jones Stone Sculpture - Includes a gallery and contact details.
Incision Drum and Bass - Local Disk Jockies. Includes events.
Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra - Providing symphonic experience for the young musicians of the county.
Glosfolk - The organisation that represents the interests of anyone interested in folk music in Gloucestershire and its neighbours.
Saul Canal Festival - Annual event at Saul Junction, at the junction of the Gloucester Sharpness Canal and the Cotswold Canals. Information on programme, facilities and tickets.
Neil Fortin - Musician - Neil Fortin, conductor, organist and tenor soloist. Includes a biography.
Cotswold Male Voice Choir - Features a diary, a guest book and contact information.
Le Roc - Information on dance training through classes held in Portishead, Kingswood and Bradley Stoke on a weekly basis.
Hands on Hot Glass - Courses in Glass Blowing and Paperweight making. Participants are given the opportunity of immediate hands on experience.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Arts and Entertainment I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Arts and Entertainment Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Arts and Entertainment There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Arts and Entertainment 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Arts and Entertainment "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Arts and Entertainment If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Arts and Entertainment This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Arts and Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Arts and Entertainment Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Arts and Entertainment
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