Friends of Pembrokeshire National Park - Independent association committed to help protect, conserve and enhance the Pembrokeshire National Park. Site includes a brochure, news and a printable application form.
Pembrokeshire Images - Online gallery of photographs and paintings of Pembrokeshire.
Plaid Cymru - News and events from the Preseli branch. English/Cymraeg
Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort - Details of a reconstructed Iron Age Hill Fort. Provides information on educational, archaeological and tourist facilities and attractions.
Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services - Supporting the development of skills and knowledge in voluntary organisations and community groups. Information about services, training and volunteering. (In Welsh and English)
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-- Gandhi I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
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That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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-- Arthur Schopenhauer I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
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