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Allotments in Leeds - An unofficial listing of allotment sites in Leeds City, by postcode.
Salsify and Scorzonera - Diary of an organic allotment in Yorkshire (with children) with lots of tips on growing vegetables and soft fruit, and running a successful and healthy allotment.
Turning Earth - Diary of a wildlife-friendly garden in Leeds, with photographs and musings.
The Fort Amynthas Gardens - Details of Kay and Edward Easton's garden in NW Leeds, with in-depth coverage of earthworms.
York Gate Gardens - History, photos and visitor information about a famous garden in Adel, now owned by the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society.
Yorkshire Garden Show - Presents exhibitor and visitor information for the annual mid-May show, held at Lotherton Hall.
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Gardening What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Gardening The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gardening It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Gardening We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Gardening A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Gardening "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Gardening Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Gardening The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Gardening 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 Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Gardening It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Gardening All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Gardening Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Gardening "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Gardening "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Gardening Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Gardening Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Gardening "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Gardening The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Gardening If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Gardening In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Gardening blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Gardening
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