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North Somerset Land Rover Club - Ethos, discussions, events, gallery, links from local motoring organisation.
North Somerset Neighbourhood Watch - Describes its activities, including the community safety programme, and gives tips on crime prevention. Subscribe to the newsletter.
Local history for Hambridge - A local history site for Hambridge village, with particular emphasis on the Victorian era.
Somerset Young Farmers - For those aged 10 to 26 who live or work in a rural community. Information about the local clubs, events, news, and competitions.
Tallowcross - Homepage of Dave McNally, with a nifty morality test.
Parochial Records - Somerset Record Office provides a summary of the parish records and images it holds for the parishes of the county, of interest for genealogy and local history.
Sustainability Action Group Exchange - Working for sustainability and good environmental practice: Pollution Abatement Technology Awards and the RSA Environmental Management Awards; news, events, lectures, contact information.
The Beehive Community Network - A community project giving charities and non-profit making organisations in Somerset, the ability to build and maintain their own websites free of charge.
Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset - Information about the history of the Provincial Lodge, links to individual lodge pages and general information about Freemasonry.
Freshford, Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse - Community information, business directories, history and photographs for the villages of Freshford, Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse.
Neighbourhood Watch and Community Safety - Information and advice on neighbourhood watch and community safety for the villages of Butcombe, Congresbury, Redhill, and Wrington.
Crossroads - Caring for Carers - Support Centre for people who look after friends or relatives due to illness, disability or age. Includes details of activity centre, support groups, counselling, volunteering, young carers, newsletter and fund raising.
Lurdle's Place - Home page of Karen Henninger containing photographs of Somerset buildings and landmarks interpersed with quotations and set to music. Includes a few Dorset pictures too.
Swap it - Instead of throwing things away, use this website to exchange items with other people in Bath and North East Somerset. Free adverts for non-commercial items offered and items wanted.
Parent Link - Offers a selection of advice from various sources for parents in the North Somerset area. Includes membership details, chat forum, things to do and advertising options.
Yerr.com - Aimed at those moving to Somerset. Learn some of the everyday phrases and tips.
Steve and Moyra's North Somerset Pages - Family history research in the county with genealogical records, county and parish histories and links.
Somerset Gay Health - Promotes good sexual and mental health for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Includes details of sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS prevention, social and support groups, befriending and counselling services.
North Somerset Community Group Forum - Promotes and supports community groups in the district. Constitution, annual report and resources.
North Somerset Heritage Trust - Provides project and membership information about North Somerset Railway Company which plans to re-open the rail link between Radstock and Frome. Includes picture library and newsletters.
Somerton and Frome Conservative Association - News, events and personalities of the local constituency party.
North Somerset Volunteer Agency - Overview of this agency which aims to put volunteers in touch with appropriate groups. Promotes volunteering and has links to relevant sites.
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Society and Culture No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "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 possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Society and Culture Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Society and Culture What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Society and Culture Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Society and Culture Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Society and Culture "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio 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. -- Crow Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
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