Jamie's le Strange History - History of the le Strange Families of Shropshire and Norfolk UK, their lineages, and photographs of Shropshire landscape and old castles around Shrewsbury area.
Katie's - Pictures from some of the productions the author has appeared in.
Dingwall's - Photographs taken at gigs by bands such as Rachel Stamp, AntiProduct, Sack Trick, My Ruin, and My Vitriol.
Amateur drama groups in Shropshire. - Information about local amateur drama groups in Shropshire, UK. Photos from some shows. One or two celebrity photos.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Luck is the residue of design.
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-- Tom Robbins Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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-- Virginia Woolf Good friends are good for your health.
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-- Aristotle Onassis Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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typewriters.
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-- Groucho Marx Personal Pages
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You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Pages Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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- Voltaire Remember your dreams.
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"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "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) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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-- Robert Frost Personal Pages Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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.
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