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Brian Hollingshead - Catalogue of artwork depicting aspects of Leicestershire and Rutland. Hundreds of subjects that have appeared in print are listed and available for purchase.
Great Central Railway - Main Line Steam trains every weekend throughout the year. Includes diary of forthcoming events.
Charnwood Arts - Information, mainly on the arts, in Charnwood.
East Midlands Oral History Archive - News page, schools project and training information about this County initiative.
Leicester music scene - A musical directory of the City . Promotes Artists, Bands, Venues, and Nightclubs. Has a section on Asian Music.
Sabras Radio - Asian talk and music service for the county.
Leicester Comedy Festival - Details and a forum on this annual event.
Spokesfest Cycling Festival - Annual, city based festival for human powered vehicles including bikes, boats and aircraft. Details of current and past events.
Youth Arts Leicestershire - Offers a programme of participatory arts projects (drama, dance, music and art) for young people between the ages of 8 - 25 years.
Stapleford Miniature Railway - History of this Railway with photos and details of events open to the public.
Leicestershire Libraries & Information Service - Includes list and links to local units. Catalogue and news service available on line.
Constable, Tim - Medium format monochrome portraiture and landscape. Unless stated all images are hand printed and toned in the darkroom.
The Battlefield Line Railway - Classic steam and diesel locomotives operate a five-mile line that runs near the battlefield of Bosworth Field. Timetable, events, prices and contact details.
Ship Of Fools Comedy Club - Stand-up comedy club meeting regularly at a bar in West Leicester.
Murder Mayhem - Local drama and entertainment group offering murder mystery evenings. Information on services offered with contact details.
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Arts and Entertainment The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Arts and Entertainment The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Arts and Entertainment Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Arts and Entertainment That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman 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 Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Arts and Entertainment There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Arts and Entertainment Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "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) Arts and Entertainment You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Arts and Entertainment Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Arts and Entertainment Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Arts and Entertainment
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