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BBC Gardening Message Board - Access to a range of bulletin boards, covering house plants, garden design, pests and diseases, allotment tales.
Kitchen Garden Forum - Run by Kitchen Garden - monthly magazine devoted to vegetables, fruit and herbs.
Organic Garden - The email list for the Organic UK web site - discussing organic gardening. For beginners and 'old hands', aimed mainly at organic gardeners in the UK.
The Organic-L list - For organic gardeners
Real Gardeners - Bulletin board from Real Gardeners - mainly UK membership, but some further afield.
uk.rec.gardening Home Page - Guide to numerous resources gathered by the indefatigable URGlers.
Yahoo! Groups - Kitchengardens - For allotment and vegetable gardeners in the UK. Discussion has a distinct bias towards conditions, varieties and pests/diseases appropriate to the UK.
Real Gardeners UK - Gardening community with discussion forums, diary, seed exchange, live chat room, and photograph albums.
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Chats and Forums A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Man and wife make one fool. Chats and Forums Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." 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(Benjamin Franklin) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Chats and Forums Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Chats and Forums One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Chats and Forums I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Chats and Forums University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia 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. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Chats and Forums "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 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(Fred Allen) Chats and Forums For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Chats and Forums 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 don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Chats and Forums I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Chats and Forums Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Chats and Forums
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