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Blagdon Cricket Club - History, fixtures, statistics and photos for this club, playing in the Bristol & District League.
Blagdon Post Office and Stores - Information about the products and services available at the store, opening hours and proprietors. With brief history of the village.
Blagdon Primary School - Information for parents, gallery of children's work, pictures of the school play, newsletter and details of events.
Mendip Caving Group - Details of meets, local exploration, expedition reports, accommodation details, picture gallery and song book.
Blagdon - Online edition of the parish magazine, together with pictures and information about the village.
Combe Lodge - Country house offering conferencing and hospitality as well as management consulting and training. Includes location details and programme of events.
Blagdon Lake - History, location and general information about the lake, its facilities and contacts. Includes current and past fishing and condition reports with a summary of fish caught and best weights.
Butcombe Farm - Offers a selection of self-catering cottages or bed and breakfast at the farmhouse. Includes a guide to the local area, photographs, price list and booking information.
The Burrington Inn - Menus, location and job opportunities at this restaurant in Burrington Combe.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Blagdon May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." 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Chesterton I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Blagdon The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Blagdon Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Blagdon The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard "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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Blagdon "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Blagdon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Blagdon "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Blagdon A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Blagdon There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Blagdon I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Blagdon 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" An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Blagdon Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Blagdon "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Blagdon There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Blagdon Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Blagdon I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Blagdon Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Blagdon Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Blagdon Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Blagdon
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