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The Fleet Inn - Riverside pub and restaurant, which also provides accommodation. Site gives details of the various facilities, with open hours, and information about party bookings.
Twyning Online - Community site, with a parish diary, details of local organisations and services, and information about various parish initiatives.
Twyning Scout Group - Includes several pages for each of the different sections (beavers, cubs, scouts, explorers) with details of activities, photographs, and leaders to contact. Also has information about the group's fund-raising and recycling efforts.
Twyning Chapel - Includes details of regular services and activities, a declaration of faith, and contact information.
Twyning School - Includes contact details, latest news, term dates and an events diary. Also an Ofsted report and the school prospectus [Word document] to download.
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Twyning 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Twyning "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Twyning Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Twyning Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Twyning He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Twyning "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "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) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Twyning Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Twyning Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous 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 Twyning It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Twyning "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Twyning A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Twyning Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Twyning Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West 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' Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Twyning I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Twyning "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Twyning Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Twyning "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Twyning "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Twyning Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Twyning That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Twyning Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Twyning
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