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Alpine Grove Touring Park - 8 acre woodland site with hard-standing, heated pool, shop, playground, free showers, wildlife, pets welcome, ETC 3-stars, at Forton.
Watermead Guest House - Family run guest house, offering bed and breakfast accommodation, tariff and contact information.
Robert Parker - Woodcrafter working in English woods and reclaimed timbers. Woodturnings, and free forms carving examples in online gallery.
Chard Today - Online local news, information about local businesses. Search capabilities.
Drivekey - Tatworth-based computer consultancy. Includes information on Tatworth and Forton Conservative Party and parish issues.
Forde Abbey and Gardens - A fascinating house based on a Cistercian monastery and gardens landscaped in the 18th century.
The Lord Poulett Arms - Located in Hinton St George offers accommodation, food and refreshment. History and links to local events and attractions.
Crawley Farm - Offers bed and breakfast accommodation in a 17th century farmhouse to the west of the town at Yarcombe. Virtual tour, tariffs and contact information.
Ecological Education Partnership - Aim to provide students with a unique residential learning experience situated at the heart of a working organic farm on the Dorset-Somerset border.
Kevin Harris's Birdwatching Pages - Pictures and reports on the wildlife seen at Chard reservoir.
Chardnet - Directory of local tourist attractions, transport and businesses with contact details and links to websites.
Wildlife Park at Cricket St Thomas - Dedicated to the conservation of wild animals including lemurs. Open all year round. Virtual tour and detailed information.
LoadLeaze Hotel - Provides an overview, tariff, location and contact details for three star hotel and restaurant.
Windwhistle Golf Club - Photo gallery and details of the facilities and courses at the club.
Maddaford Herd - Information about the pedigree pigs raised at Old Castle Farm, Buckland St Mary. Includes details of awards and where to buy sausages and other pork joints.
Andrew Garlick - Harpsichord maker specialising in French and Flemish instruments using authentic materials. Includes examples of work and ordering information.
Holyrood Community School - 11-18 mixed comprehensive school. Includes news, curriculum information, clubs and award winners.
Manor Court School - Newsletter and guide to a community primary school.
The Redstart School - News, guide and contact details for a primary school.
Buckland St Mary C of E Primary School - Anglican aided school for pupils 4-11 years based in the Blackdown Hills. Includes photographs, class pages and events.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Chard We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Republican boys date Democratic girls. 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If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Chard "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Chard Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Chard "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Chard Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Chard 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Chard The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Chard Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Chard Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Chard blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Chard Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Chard "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Chard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Chard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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. -- Tom Robbins The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Chard "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Chard If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Chard A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Chard
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