Bodelwyddan Castle - Historic house, museum and outstation of the National Portrait Gallery. Details of the castle's history and facilities, with visitor information.
Ewe-phoria Sheepdog Centre - Sheepdog demonstrations, with a cafe, gift shop, picnic and play areas. Includes background information on the shepherd.
Greenfield Valley - A seventy acre country park with woodlands, reservoirs, ancient monuments and industrial history sites, near Holywell. Visitor information and map.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Attractions I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Attractions
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Attractions Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Attractions
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Attractions One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Attractions
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Attractions I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Attractions
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Attractions "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Attractions
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Attractions Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Attractions The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Attractions
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attractions Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Attractions
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Attractions If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Attractions
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Attractions "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Attractions
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Attractions There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Attractions
