Mediaeval Pembridge - Information about the village, developed by the local Tourism Association.
Dunkerton Cider Co. - Traditional organic ciders and perry, available to the UK mainland only, and Cider House Restaurant. Includes company history and description of products.
Grove Design - Product design services with particular emphasis on engineering and problem solving.
The Kings House - Built in the 15th and 16ht centuries. Includes history and menus.
Pembridge Terracotta - Produces handmade terracotta garden pots. Site includes details of the 'personalised pot' service, and an online shop.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Pembridge With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Pembridge
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Pembridge Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Pembridge
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Pembridge I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pembridge
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Pembridge I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Pembridge
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Pembridge Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Pembridge
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Pembridge If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "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. Pembridge
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Pembridge Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Pembridge
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Pembridge 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Pembridge
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Pembridge If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pembridge
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Pembridge There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Pembridge
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Pembridge Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Pembridge
