Skelderskew Farm - Three self-catering farm cottages. Includes photographs, details of facilities and information about the local area. [May not display correctly in all browsers]
Fowl Green Farm - Several holiday cottages on a farm. Includes photographs, details of facilities, history of the farm and the locality, local information and contacts.
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Commondale "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Commondale
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Commondale "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Commondale
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Commondale UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Commondale
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Commondale The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Commondale
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Commondale Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Commondale
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Commondale Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Commondale
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Commondale Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Commondale
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Commondale "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Commondale
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Commondale "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Commondale
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Commondale Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Commondale
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Commondale You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Commondale
