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Round Table Severn Vale Area 23 - A forum for meeting people from all walks of life, organising fund raising events and community activities. Site has diary, pictures and links.
Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Association - Guide to the towers in each local branch and giving details of ringing times.
Belas Knap Long Barrow - History and pictures of this ancient burial mound plus directions to reach it. Neolithic in origin, it's about 55 metres long and hump shaped. The dry stone walling is impressive.
Hetty Pegler's Tump - Also known as the Uley Barrow. Description and photos of this chambered neolithic long barrow .
Fair Shares - Fair Shares will set up and evaluate UK pilot projects using "time money" as a new technology for rewarding participation and rebuilding communities. The first three projects are in Gloucestershire.
Gloucestershire Carers Project - The Project offers the information and support needed to make life easier for carers and the people they care for.
Industrial Archaeology in Gloucestershire - The Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology.   Information on the Society's activities and about I.A. in the County.
Gloucestershire Guide Association - An organisation for women and girls of all ages, part of girl guiding and girl scouting.
Grapevine Youth Services - Advice, Information and Support for 14 - 25 year olds in the county.
Holst Birthplace Museum - Features re creations of his house, contact details and a brief biography.
Age Concern Gloucestershire - An independent charity that works to promote the well being of older people throughout the county.
Gloucestershire Chinese Womens Guild - Voluntary organisation helping the Chinese community. Includes description of services, photos and video clips of events, with some Chinese language information.
Race Equality Council for Gloucestershire - Includes vacancies, contact details, and a description of the services offered.
Action for a Fairer Gloucester - A voluntary group chaired by local business promoting equality of opportunity. Includes jobs and how to join.
Living Independently in Gloucestershire - Features support service to people opting to take a Direct Payment in lieu of Social Services community care services.
Frampton Cotterell Parish - Information about the village and its activities, council, history, churches, schools and landscape.
Cotswold Owl Rescue Trust - Features information on owls, how to treat injured birds, pictures and the aims of the society.
Gloucestershire Beehive - Community groups and charities offered a free website by the local paper.
Gloucestershire Constabulary - Annual reports, information on crime prevention and Neighbourhood Watch schemes, traffic information, with special pages for current e-fits and missing persons.
Sergeant Bruce Hancock RAFVR - A page outlining the events of 18th August 1940, the collision resulting in the death of Sgt Hancock and four Luftwaffe airmen at RAF Windrush.
Gloucestershire Local History - Information, events and links to organisations relating to local history in the county.
Gloucestershire Inter-Varsity Club - A multi activity club for young professional people anywhere in the county. Site describes events and club nights.
Carols Smile - A Registered charity formed in 2002 in memory of Carol Harbord who died in February that year at the age of 31 of hodgkins disease.
Gay & Lesbian Gloucestershire Helpline - Includes links, feedback and news.
Berkeley Notes - Notes on the geography and history of the town, church and castle at Berkeley.
Church Bells in Gloucestershire - A Ringer's guide to towers in Gloucestershire.
Longborough - Includes local and family history, reminiscences, a virtual stroll, events and activities and the village magazine.
Teens in Crisis - Provides advice, counselling, education, youth work and crisis support services to young people aged 11 - 21 and support to parents. Includes advice to teens and parents, information for professionals, services, news, diary and job vacancies.
Gloucestershire Parish Churches - Over 300 photographs plus detailed charts analysing the architectural features on the top of each church's tower.
GFWI - Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes - Includes local information, events and contact details.
Gloucestershire Gay Police Association - Provides internal support available to staff and assistance with policies and procedures that affect the external community.
Chalford Band - Official site of a thriving brass band organisation near Stroud, with three groups covering all ages and abilities. News, history, events and contact information.
B4221 Action Group - Features a campaign to reduce the volume, speed and weight of traffic on the B4221 in northwest of the county.
Connexions - Features information, advice, guidance and support service for young people.
Linking Communities - A Black and Visible minority ethnic Network.
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Society and Culture A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Society and Culture I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Society and Culture It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society and Culture "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Society and Culture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens 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 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Society and Culture
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