Topiary in the United Kingdom - Provides a list of gardens in the UK with significant topiary. Includes advice on how to grow, clipping and where to buy.
Hedges and Edges - Topiary grown and designed by Lancaster based specialists.
Wildlife Gardening - Information about getting started with wildlife gardening, the wildlife that could be around in your garden at the moment, and how to learn more by doing a one day or longer course. Contact details
Dry Stone Walling Association - Charitable organisation committed to the preservation of dry stone walls and to the training of people in the craft of dry stone walling. Projects, competitions, branches, books and gallery.
BTCV Handbooks Online - Dry Stone Walling - Text of a book published by the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers. Covers building various types, features, know your stone, variations and wall furniture such as cripple holes and smoots.
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-- Virginia Woolf If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Specialised Techniques "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Specialised Techniques
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Specialised Techniques One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Thomas Jefferson Specialised Techniques I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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-- Flannery O'Connor Specialised Techniques
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-- Harry S. Truman "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
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-- Isaac Newton Specialised Techniques
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Specialised Techniques
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Specialised Techniques I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- Fred Allen Specialised Techniques
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-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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grie Specialised Techniques Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Specialised Techniques
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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- Bertrand Russell
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