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Watercress Line - Mid-Hants Railway operate preserved heritage steam engines between Alresford and Alton. Journeys further afield also take place.

New Alresford Parish - Local Government information for New Alresford.

Old Alresford Parish - Information on this parish within Alresford.

Alresford Index - Provides local information including events, clubs, education and local businesses.

Pictures of Alresford - Photographs of property around the area.

Matterley Bowl - One of the primary features of the estate is the natural amphitheatre known as the "Punchbowl" or "Matterley-Bowl" which is used not only for producing food for the dairy herd and grazing, but also forms a picturesque backdrop for outdoor events such as ericsson@homelands 2001,

The Alresford Surgery - Medical practice. Includes surgery times, news and information about the practice team.

Saint Gregory's - Catholic church. Mass times, contact details, directions to churches and parish history.

St John the Baptist Church - Information about regular and occasional activities, plus service times, contact information, a selection of sermons in .pdf and .doc format and links.

Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Alresford People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Alresford Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Alresford I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Alresford You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Alresford The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Alresford We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Alresford The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Alresford I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Alresford Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Alresford "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Alresford "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Alresford The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Alresford In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Alresford "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) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Alresford Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Alresford Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Alresford If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Alresford And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Alresford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Alresford Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Alresford Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Alresford
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