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Eastermead Activity Toys - Supplier of outdoor garden swings, slides, climbing frames, trampolines, sand pits, and other outdoor toys.

Cronin Page - Property consultancy and estate agents. Provides details of commercial services and local residential sales.

Fastec Engineering - Offers design and training services in CAD surface and solid modeling using CATIA software. Includes details of related services and contact information.

Winscombe and Sandford Parish Council - Information on the parish, local news and history. Includes the villages of Woodborough, Barton and Sidcot, together with the dismantled Cheddar Valley railway line.

Daneswood House Hotel - Built in Edwardian times as a homeopathic hydro on the side of the Mendip Hills at Shipham. Location, photographs, cuisine, conference facilities and tariff.

Ian Studley Cars Ltd - Porsche, VW/Audi and BMW specialists. Supply, servicing, parts and accessories.

Winscombe Travel - Details of independent travel agent with information about holidays in Spain and Tenerife.

Home Farm Cottages - Describes a group of self catering holiday cottages in a quiet rural location on the foot of the Mendips at Barton. Provides details of facilities, prices and things to do.

Tynings Trekking Centre - Offers a range of rides across the Mendips. Includes details of the horses, prices and reservation form.

GAB - Sells and maintains a wide range of garden machinery and stoves. Includes useful tips and contact details.

Woodburning and Multi-Fuel Stoves from GAB - Pictures of stoves available from the showroom of GAB Garden Machinery at Sandford. Includes contact information and map.

Winscombe: A Study of a Somerset Parish - A thorough study of the parish including entymology, history, church information and registers.

Waterstone Fountains - Manufacturer and supplier of copper water fountains and garden ornaments. Includes product pictures and descriptions, price list, exhibitions list and contact details.

Hansfords - A traditional butcher's shop in Shipham. Offers a range of meats and catering services to businesses and personal customers.

Stoneycroft - Description and pictures of the facilities and holiday cottages available at this guest house in Langford.

Miltons Country Lodge and Restaurant - Description of the hotel, its facilities, rates and location at Lower Langford. Includes rates and contact details.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Winscombe My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Winscombe Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Winscombe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Winscombe "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Winscombe Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Winscombe Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Winscombe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Winscombe You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winscombe Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Winscombe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Winscombe If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Winscombe However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Winscombe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Winscombe My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winscombe Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Winscombe The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Winscombe If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Winscombe If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Winscombe May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Winscombe "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may 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 Winscombe I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Winscombe
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