Marketeers Carnival Club - Club news, views and information. Webcam and history of the club's participation in the annual event and concerts.
Midnight Mango - Online magazine for music, poetry and photography from the Bridgwater area.
Downfall Official Website - Downfall are one of the areas premier unsigned metal-bands. Site features pics, bio,live dates, news, discography as well as Frightfest updates.
Serena de la Hey - Willow sculptress best known locally for her figurative sculptural work, including the Willow Man seen alongside the M5 close to the town.
Cavaliers Carnival Club - Locally based club who take part in the annual Guy Fawkes event, information and photos.
Bridgwater Pantomime Society - Contains information on all previous productions, the current production and other services available to the community including costume hire.
Bridgwater Carnival - Information, links and pictures of this annual Guy Fawkes event.
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Arts and Entertainment
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Arts and Entertainment
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Arts and Entertainment
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Arts and Entertainment You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Arts and Entertainment
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Arts and Entertainment The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Arts and Entertainment
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Arts and Entertainment
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Arts and Entertainment And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
