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Cafe 100 Cybercafe, Holmfirth - Description, events calendar, and newsletter of this youth project to support young people of Holmfirth.
Holme Silver Band - Brass band from Holmfirth - history, photographs and information. Includes Real Audio and Video clips.
Holmfirth Community Web - Welcome to Holmfirth and the Holme Valley which stretches for about eight miles from the high Pennines near Holme Moss along the River Holme towards Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. This area is the setting for the BBC comedy series 'Last of the Summer Wine'.
Ashley Jackson - Yorkshire-based artist who specialises in watercolours of the local landscape. On-line gallery, biographical information and a list of his activities and painting courses for the year.
Holmfirth Shooting School - Clay pigeon shooting. Information about the ground, fixtures, events, tuition, bookings for corporate shoots. Includes events calendar and contact details.
Holmfirth Musical Festival - A competition for solo instrumentalists and singers, small vocal ensembles and choirs. Details of entry and classes with downloadable application form.
Morgan Music Company - Sales of sheet music for choirs, stage, brass bands, orchestras and other ensembles. On-line catalogue and preview, with information for purchase. Hosts pages for Holmfirth Orchestra, Holme Valley Singers, Christ Church New Mill, the Maythorne Ceilidh Band, and Holmfirth High School Orchestra.
Holmfirth Badminton Club - Contact and subscription details, and information about sessions.
Holmfirth Folk Festival - The Pennine festival of music and dance, an annual event since 1978. Details of artists, programme, venues, tickets, camping and contact.
Summerwine Cottages - Part of a converted 17th century farmhouse, in the heart of 'Summer Wine' country. Details of accommodation, tariff, and contact details.
Sweetone Music - Musicians - including Trevor's Fetish Ceilidh Band and guitarists Two for the Road. Details, reviews, photos, booking and online listening. Also guitar lessons, publications, and guitar sales.
The Pennine Festival of Music and Dance - Information about artists, programme and facilities. (in May, annually)
Holmfirth and Meltham Lions Club - Details for contact and membership.
Hepworth Band - Short history of the band, with concert diary and booking details, and information about their recording.
Holmfirth Harriers - Club for road, fell, X-country and track runners. Details of membership, training, and leagues they participate in. Contact information.
Nowcast - Detailed weather "nowcast" and forecast for the Holme Valley, generated every 10 minutes. Includes information for activities likely to be affected by the weather.
Holmfirth Choral Society - Describes the activities of a mixed voice choral society with details of meetings and rehearsals, and a diary of their concerts.
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Holmfirth If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Holmfirth The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Holmfirth Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Holmfirth No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Holmfirth The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Holmfirth It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes 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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 Holmfirth He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Holmfirth A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Holmfirth "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Holmfirth Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Holmfirth Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Holmfirth "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Holmfirth "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Holmfirth "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Holmfirth Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Holmfirth Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Holmfirth I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Holmfirth Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Holmfirth "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Holmfirth Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Holmfirth Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Holmfirth
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