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Yeo Valley Organic Ltd - Flash equipped site featuring details of the organic dairy products supplied by this locally based enterprise. Kids section and competitions as well as product news.
Cannington - Information about local events, activities, parish council minutes, education, history, religion and accommodation.
Irvine Hyundai - Details of new and used vehicles and services provided by this dealer.
Browncow Media - Website design and development.
Blackmore Farm - A restored l4th-century manor house offering bed and breakfast accommodation, with facilities for disabled guests. Business conferences and wedding receptions are catered for. Details, tariff and pictures.
The Grange - Victorian mansion with barn and cottages close to the village, set in 3.5 acres of landscaped gardens, offering self-catering holiday accommodation.
Brymore School - Boys school apart from offering the usual courses has beef and diary herds, sheep and pigs and facilities for other rural pursuits.
Gurney Manor Mill - An old Somerset watermill and barn, restored into bed and breakfast accommodation. Photographs, description and details of the accommodation, tariff and directions.
The Village Bakery - Introduces the local bakery and baker, provides opening hours, location and contact details.
Cannington Church of England Primary School - Parents' guide, term dates and notice board.
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Cannington The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cannington Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan 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 Cannington When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Cannington "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Cannington I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Cannington "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Cannington "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Cannington It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Cannington I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Cannington In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Cannington "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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. -- George Bernard Shaw I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Cannington "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Cannington "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Cannington We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Cannington "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Cannington If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Cannington When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Cannington Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Cannington Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Cannington "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Cannington What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Cannington
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