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Blackmore & Langdon - Information about this long established nursery which specialises in begonias and delphiniums. Includes details of mail order service with delivery overseas.
Pensford School - Details of the aims, staff, timetable, governors and calendar for the primary school.
Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge - Introduction to Rotary and the club, membership information, programme, gallery and summary of current projects.
Hunstrete House Hotel - An idyllic l8th century country house hotel set in 92 acres of deer park, horse pasture and gardens. 7 miles from Bath.
The Old Chapel - Describes the bed and breakfast accommodation available at this 19th century converted chapel at Compton Dando. With pictures of the room, tariff and booking details.
Overhill Kennels and Exports - Specialising in dog and cat export to all over the world. Also quarantine kennels and breeders of Japanese Akitas, Beauceron and German Shepherds.
Pensford 10K - Picture gallery and details of the annual race and fun run, including database of results.
Pensford, Publow, Woollard and Chelwood - Local history, businesses, pubs, groups, music festival and links.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Pensford Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Pensford The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Pensford "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Pensford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Pensford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Pensford "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Pensford Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Pensford "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Pensford An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Pensford "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "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 just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pensford I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Pensford It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Pensford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Pensford I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Pensford The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Pensford Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Pensford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Pensford The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Pensford In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Pensford Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Pensford Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Pensford
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