Big Village Events in the East Midlands - Guide to what is going on in Huntingdonshire and the surrounding areas of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Midlands About.com - From About.com, with annotated links to a wide variety of Midlands sites. New weekly articles, tourist information, chat room and events calendar.
Over the Rainbow - Hot air balloon flights over Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Photos of balloon, cost and flight details.
KM Brennan Chemists Ltd - Pharmaceutical and photographic shops the region. Details of products and location information.
East Midlands Screen Commission - Offering free advice on locations, crew and facilities. Provides detailed information on locations including churches castles and cottages, plus details of services available and films which have used the region.
East Midlands Funders Forum - Information about funders of the voluntary and community sector in the region. Details about membership, work of the forum and meetings.
Infolinx - Comprehensive directory of local organisations and facilities in Leicestershire and Rutland.
EMTEX - East Midlands Textile Association offers support for this region. Details of services provided.
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 East Midlands The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) East Midlands
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie East Midlands Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous East Midlands
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl East Midlands You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker East Midlands
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt East Midlands All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "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) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom East Midlands
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "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 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard East Midlands "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) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) East Midlands
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" 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. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha East Midlands Marriage is a rest period between romances. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James East Midlands
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST East Midlands I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard East Midlands
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) East Midlands All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) East Midlands
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault East Midlands Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t East Midlands
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer East Midlands The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes East Midlands
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams East Midlands The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) East Midlands
