Hunterelm - Seasoned hardwood from traditionally managed ancient woodland and other sustainable sources. Detailed information on types and prices of materials delivered.
Masquerade Fancy Dress - Includes catalogue of costume and fancy dress outfits for hire.
Rob The Bookie - Independent bookmaker offering telephone, internet and casino betting.
Building Test Centre - UKAS accredited test house carrying out acoustic laboratory and site testing.
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. East Leake I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola East Leake
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo East Leake Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life East Leake
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) East Leake "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde East Leake
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead East Leake "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill East Leake
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. East Leake We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen East Leake
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous East Leake Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) East Leake
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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson East Leake The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot East Leake
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost East Leake If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor East Leake
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson East Leake Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr East Leake
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael East Leake A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland East Leake
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince East Leake "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) East Leake
