Cradley Heath Songsters - Salvation Army Choir, including information about their repertoire.
Paul Carr - Organist and recitalist. Covers future concerts and recitals, with photographs.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
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there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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-- Oscar Wilde 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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