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The Miniature
Earth
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This is an unashamedly eclectic collection of links to websites that I have found
interesting.
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installed, left-clicking on the speaker icon causes the MIDI file to be
downloaded, media player started and music played. XHMTL doesn't support
embedded background sound files, this is because music is subjective and
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| Art on-line
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Fine art directory: art history, art market, art venues, artists,
education, employment, events, galleries, governments, legal, museums,
professionals, resources, rewards and shopping. |
| Harriet
Appleby |
Blurred Edges: Artist and felt-maker. |
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I have always found wooden boxes intriguing. A wooden box invites
you to discover what is inside it. Fine wooden boxes are particularly
alluring; a well-made box entices you to touch all its surfaces and
examine how it was made. |
| Celebrating
Boxes |
Wooden boxes - these simple words encompass so many possibilities:
fine sculpted or carved work, functional or fanciful, immaculately
constructed and veneered - or just hollowed out. From exquisitely
made traditional boxes to some of the wildest creations by today's
most outstanding and innovative designer/makers - 'Celebrating Boxes'
features them all. |
| Chichester
Festivities |
A summer feast of the arts in the historic Cathedral city of Chichester,
between the Downs and the
sea, in beautiful West
Sussex. |
| European
World Gallery |
Fine art gallery featuring: Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Dali, Leger,
Braque, Matisse, Dufy, Calder, Lindner, Tarkay, Schluss, Gockel, Peter
Max, Ferjo Paintings and Hand Signed Lithographs. |
| Egypt7000
|
Your gateway to 7,000 years of Egyptian culture. Egyptian arts
and crafts. |
| Fine Boxes
|
Andrew Crawford's beautiful veneered inlaid wooden boxes and a
range of colourful & original gifts including: collector's boxes,
jewellery boxes, tea caddies, flute cases, solitaire boards, jewelry
cases, treasure chests, chopsticks, display cabinets, box making books,
Celebrating Boxes, The Book of Boxes, Fine Decorative Wood Boxes,
Fine Decorative Boxes, chess boards, humidors, display cabinets, corporate
gifts, bespoke boxes, jewellery caskets, writing slopes, cutlery cases,
watercolour boxes, commissioned work, box making tuition, backgammon
boards, extensive galleries ... and much more. |
| Fractal
Art |
Art beyond the imagination. |
Useful
links to online art resources. |
| Guild of Master
Craftsmen Publications |
The Router, Woodcarving, Woodturning, Woodworking, Furniture &
Cabinet Making, The Doll's House, Machine Knitting News, Black &
White Photography, Outdoor Photography and Travel Photography. |
|
Steve Carroll artist, writer & thinker...
10 Melbourne Road
Goring-by-Sea
Worthing
West Sussex
BN12 4RY
Tel 01903 600 541
Mobile 0778 6034580
steve@inspiration-by-design.co.uk
Graphic Design:
Corporate Literature, Marketing Materials,
Publicity for Charities, Book Design & Graphic Novels
inspired to design
designed to inspire |
| Maynard Sacco
|
This artist, who works in oils and arylics, has worked as a sculptor
and a composer of music for classical guitar. Music is a deeply felt
passion and Maynard listens to the classics while he paints. Particular
favorites are J S Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. |
| Nikki Attree
|
Digital artist. Her photographs have appeared in galleries, magazines
(Sussex Life ,Opticon, PhotoFX, Macformat etc) and on CD covers for
Boosey and Hawkes (music publishers) and commissions from individual
musicians. Her work is also featured on several online galleries,
including 'London Art' who describe her on their front page as an
"emerging talented artist ... Nikki Attree who is just beginning to
establish a reputation ..." |
|
Opus Stained Glass was formed over twenty years ago. Initially
based in Brighton, it moved to the rural village of Poynings, just
north of Brighton in Sussex, where it has been ever since.
Opus Stained Glass covers a broad spectrum of work, from the design
and manufacture of new windows to the conservation and restoration
of traditional stained glass and leaded glass.
It has experience in reproducing heraldic and historic glass, and
is fully conversant with decorative production processes, such as
painting and staining, acid embossing, sandblasting, and fusing and
slumping.
This company welcomes equally enquiries regarding work for private
houses through to large-scale commissions and restoration for Churches
and Public Buildings. |
| Peter Callesen
|
Stunning papercuts. |
| PROJEKT30
|
Projekt30 is an online gallery designed to connect emerging artists
with 'brick and mortar' art galleries which might be interested in
representing them, as well as art dealers and collectors which were
previously unaware of their work. |
| Stone
Age Trading Company |
Bringing the age old art of flint
knapping to life. Here you will find artifact replications of
spears, bows, arrows, and tomahawks. You can also find jewelry, pottery,
blankets, tapes and books. |
RAG encourage the practice and the understanding of contemporary arts
and crafts by seeking new collaborations, fresh challenges and further
adventures in the arts. RAG serve people and places, providing the
chance to experience contemporary arts and crafts, which can lift
the spirits and increase well-being. The ultimate guide to the Worthing
Fringe. |
| Show
and Tell |
A site that celebrates LP album art. |
| Stone
|
Worst LP album (or CD) covers ever. |
| Stone
Age Trading Company |
Bringing the age old art of flint
knapping to life. Here you will find artifact replications of
spears, bows, arrows, and tomahawks. You can also find jewelry, pottery,
blankets, tapes and books. |
| Tomfoolery
(Sussex) Ltd |
Sterling Silver and Pewter Jewellery.
Tel 01273 703 188 |
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| Astronomy
Picture of the Day Calendar |
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe
is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional
astronomer. |
| GeoClock
Sunlight Clock |
GeoClock shows the current time (based on your computer's clock)
with a high quality map of the earth. The current sun position is
newed, and the parts of the earth in sunlight and twilight are highlighted.
This new is automatically updated every few seconds. Local sunrise,
sunset, the sun's azimuth and elevation, and times around the world
are also newed. |
| Mars
Exploration Program Landing Sites |
Mars, the Roman god of war, the father of Romulus and Remus. |
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| Bird
feeder |
A birdfeeder for mealworms. |
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abebooks.co.uk
abebooks.com
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Discover the world's largest online marketplace for books ... whether
it's new secondhand, rare or out-of-print, you can find it here. Advanced
Book Exchange. They provide abundant selection and competitive prices
via their community of over 12,000 independent booksellers from around
the globe. Every day, thousands of people find the books they want
on Abebooks. Lists more than 50 million works on the shelves of shops
around the world. |
amazon.co.uk
amazon.com |
One of the best known mail order book suppliers. |
|
Badgers Books
Secondhand & antiquarian booksellers
8-10 Gratwicke Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4BH
Tel 01903 211 816
Ray Potter
Meriel Cocks
ray@badgersbooks.freeserve.co.uk
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| bookcrossing.com
|
The practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up
and read by others, who then do likewise. |
| bibliofind.com
|
Bibliofind has combined with Amazon.com to provide millions of
rare, used, and out-of-print books through the world's No.1 online
bookstore. Search for millions of hard-to-find titles from Bibliofind
and Amazon.com booksellers. |
| etsp.co.uk
|
TSP is a bookclub that doesn't insist on you buying a book every
month. |
| fatchuck.com
|
A list of books that have been banned or suppressed by governments
around the world. |
| booktown.net
|
IOB - International Organisation of Book Towns. A booktown is a
small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops
are concentrated. Most booktowns have developed in villages of historic
interest or of scenic beauty. The world's first booktown was founded
in Hay-on-Wye in 1961 by Richard Booth. He bought derelict buidings
including the castle, fire station and old workhouse and turned them
all into bookshops. There are now at least 20 such towns around the
world. Most traders work together, aiming to help their town's regeneration.
Members of the International Organisation of Book Towns include: Hay-on-Wye
and Blaenavon, Wales; Wigtown, Scotland; Redu and Damme, Belgium;
Becherel, Montolieu and Fontenoy la Joute, France; Bredevoort, Netherlands;
St Pierre de Clages, Switzerland; Fjaerland, Norway; Sysma, Finland;
Waldstadt Wunsdorf, Germany; Gold Cities, Nevada and California, and
Stillwater, Minnesota, USA; Sidney, Canada; Kembuchi and Miyawaga,
Japan; Kampung Buku, Malaysia. If you know of any others then please
let
me know. |
| psbooks.co.uk
|
Postscript is a long-established mail order company specialising
in good quality publishers' overstocks and remaindered books at discounts
of up to 80% off the published price. Subjects covered include: British
Isles, British History, British Archaeology, World History, Travel,
Music, Performing Arts, Crafts and Collectibles, Food and Drink, Gardens,
Nature, Reference, Fiction, Crime, Science, Mind, Body and Spirit,
Folklore, Art, Biography, Architecture, Design, Military History,
Religion, Social History, Literature, Academic, Transport, Social
and Cultural Studies. |
| reddotbooks.co.uk
|
RedDot Books is an online bookshop offering brand new, quality
arts and humanities titles, at bargain prices. Discounts of up to
80% off the published price for quality book bargains. |
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| Amdow Web Design
|
Web design for the small business, or for the individual. Quality
sites simply designed to make them appear on the screen within an
acceptable time. Simple but effective and all at a low cost. |
| Ananda |
Furniture and textile gallery.
24 Bond Street, Brighton BN1 1RD
Tel 01273 725 307
Fax 01273 207 474
info@ananda.co.uk
They have some exquisite inlaid boxes containing chess/backgammon
sets, which are made in Syria.
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| Baby Lamb Software
|
Baby Lamb Software is a small team of programmers and designers
working from the South Coast of England. They specialise in finding
and implementing software which will help you to publish your information
on the Internet. |
| Brighton
Conference Office |
Everything you want to know about bringing a convention, congress,
conference, symposium, general assembly or any other type of meeting
to Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, UK - Britain's liveliest and
loveliest Regency City by the sea. |
| Broadband
for Pulborough |
A campaign organised by Joan Webb to get Broadband to the majority
of Pulborough residents. |
| Chichester
Observer |
Covers Chichester, Bognor, Midhurst and Petworth. |
| ComponentOne
Europe Ltd |
ComponentOne produces high-performance, easy-to-use tools for professional
developers and Help authors. The ComponentOne product line includes
components for ActiveX, .NET, ASP.NET, and Help authoring tools. |
| Findon
Caravan Services Ltd |
Caravan brokerage and accessories via retail outlet and mail order.
|
| Findon
Financial Solutions Ltd |
Mortgages, Investments, Savings, Retirement Planning and Life Insurance,
all independantly researched from the whole marketplace, with solutions
tailored to your requirements. |
| TANTRUM Design |
Based in Worthing, West Sussex - on the South coast of the UK.
Provides a friendly, professional and unique design service. Contact them now for a free consultation.
Services also include - copywriting, marketing and promotional campaigns, exhibition display, digital and photographic illustration.
|
| Jacobs-Steel
|
Estate agents for buying, selling or letting property. |
| Java Jive
Design |
Graphic design center. Print: stationery, brochures, book / CD
/ video covers, exhibition graphics, posters and leaflets. New media:
website design, CD-ROM creation, PowerPoint presentations. Corporate
identity: logos and branding. Mixed media: commissioned paintings
and murals for interiors, illustrations. |
| K9 Good
Care |
K9 Good Care specialise in caring for dogs when their owners are
away. This is a family run business located in West Worthing, West
Sussex. Their growth is achieved by continually providing value, satisfaction
and service to their customers, and their pets. |
| Little
Furlong Kennels & Cattery |
Little Furlong nestles in a sheltered, wooded location. The kennels
are surrounded by extensive and secure open spaces on which the dogs
enjoy regular exercise, four times each day. Their kennels are roomy,
modern, and well heated and ventilated for maximum comfort. |
| Sky Systems
|
Paragliding and paramotoring sales and tuition on the Sussex
Downs. |
| Streets
Ahead |
Website design, hosting and consultancy. |
| Sussex
Beacon |
A national care centre for men and women with HIV/AIDS related
illnesses. |
| Sussex
Business Directory |
Accountants, advertising and marketing, computer services, design
illustration and multimedia, electron microscopy and FACS services,
financial services, insurance services, internet service providers,
manufacturing and engineering, music services, health and wellbeing,
photography and video, printing and publishers, property and accommodation,
public relations, quality assurance, recruitment agencies, solicitors,
sports, fitness and leisure, trades, artisans and crafts, translation
services, video conferencing, web authoring and Internet services.
|
| Sussex Community
Internet Project |
Sussex Community Internet Project works with staff and volunteers
from local community organisations, helping them use computers and
the internet for the benefit of the whole community. |
| Sussex Life
|
The objective is to target the editorial and delivery of Sussex
Life to the most affluent people throughout the county so that advertisers
can inform them of their quality products and services. |
| The Brighton
and Hove Bus and Coach Company |
This company runs a fleet of over 220 modern buses on local bus
services as well as 10 luxury coaches available for private hire to
meet any requirements. |
| The
Sewing Machine Shop |
Based in Worthing, West Sussex, this company offers a complete
range of sewing machines, overlockers, ironing presses, computerised
embroidery equipment, sewing furniture and sundries. They also provide
a mail order service that covers the whole of the UK. |
| Unicover
Insurance |
Comprehensive range of insurance services. Commercial: aviation,
cargo, fleet/van, marine, personal accident. Personal: household and
motor. Small business: contactors, engineering, hotel, liabilities,
office, professional indemnity, property owners, pub/restaurant, shop.
Legal: legal indemnities, legal expenses. Holiday: travel insurance,
car hire. |
| Wired Sussex
|
Wired Sussex is the business development agency for new media businesses
in Sussex. The agency offers a range of crucial business development
services for the new media industry and has helped build one of the
region's most successful sectors. All of its services can be accessed
from this Website. |
| Worthing
Model Railway Club |
This site is designed to give you some useful information regarding
Worthing's Model Railway Club. |
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| @UK
|
@UK is the Web's leading UK travel and tourism portal - online
since 1993 and serving over 3,000 unique visitors every day. |
| Bob
Ross Instructors |
This site was created for those who have the desire to find out
more about learning to paint using the Bob Ross 'wet-on-wet' oil painting
technique, as seen on 'The Joy of Painting' (Discovery Home and Leisure
channel). |
| Crown
& Castle |
There has been an inn on the site of the Crown and Castle for centuries,
although it is the Victorians whom we have to thank for its present
red-brick exterior and high, gabled roof. With a picture-book, Norman
castle (or keep, to be precise) just yards away, the hotel stands
on the corner of Orford's old market square, and has a south-facing
garden to the rear, where guests can eat al fresco in the summer.
|
| Dreamteam
Design |
Formed in April 1997, this company specialises in digital brand
and interactive design and development. And because that's all they
do, their clients benefit from their best attention and their award-winning
team of designers, developers and producers. |
| Emma
Plus |
Ladies designer clothing in larger sizes. At Emma Plus they believe
that clothing for the larger woman should be as individual as you
are. So they search the world to bring you: the best fashions, the
best materials, exciting and different clothes, wearability. Emma
Plus is a store specialising in clothing for women sizes 18-30 (English
dress size). |
| Fastnet
|
FastNet International triumphed over competition from some of the
UK's largest ISPs including Pipex and Demon to win the coveted title
of 'Best Small Business ISP'. |
| Golden Seal
Construction |
The complete building service, from design to construction. Free
estimates and advice. Fully insured. References available. |
| Holmes
& Company |
Estate agents and valuers. |
| Hotchilli Internet
Solutions |
Hotchilli is a leading Internet Service Provider whose corporate
clients include Norwich Union, Ford, Ericsson, Saatchi and Saatchi,
Spar, Emap, Save the Children, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Oxford University
and various NHS and Government bodies. |
| HouseThat
|
This site offers all kinds of property throughout the UK and because
they use no estate agents, sellers can save thousands of £££s
by dealing with buyers - direct. |
| Inn-Quest
Design Services |
Extend your company profile with an extension of your existing
corporate image on the Internet. |
| Kent Canoe
Services |
Kent Canoe Services - specialist canoeing and kayaking equipment
retailer for London and the South East of England. Canoe school offering
canoeing and kayaking courses. |
| Megafast Interactive
Media Ltd |
Web-designs, on-line databases, CD ROMs, advanced PowerPoint presentations,
corporate design, logos and creative electronic marketing. |
| The
National Trust |
The National Trust was set up to act as a guardian for the nation
in the acquisition and protection of threatened coastline, countryside
and buildings. The Trust now cares for over 248,000 hectares (612,000
acres) of beautiful countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland,
plus almost 600 miles of coastline and more than 200 buildings and
gardens of outstanding interest and importance. |
| NET Business
Ltd |
ISP and hosting for small business since 1997. |
| Rainmac |
Genuine quality waterproof Mackintoshes (made in Scotland - the
'home' of the mackinson), plus other quality waterproof rainwear.
|
| Pavilion Internet
|
Easynet is a leading pan-European commercial Internet Service Provider
and telecommunications company with operations in eight European countries.
Established in 1994, Easynet operates one of Europe's most advanced
Internet networks and data centre infrastructures. In the UK Easynet
has a national broadband network consisting of 4,450 kilometres of
fibre. |
| p@vnet |
PAV IT services is a leading systems integration and networking
house - designing, configuring, installing and integrating networks
for business and commercial customers in London and the South East
of England since 1986. During this time they have established a reputation
for providing resilient and cost effective local and wide area networks
and business Internet services for many of the areas most successful
companies. |
| PensOnline
|
Pens, Refills, Pencils, Ink: Large selection of brand name writing
instruments and accessories. |
| Perceptions
|
Perception have been making kayaks for 25 years now. In that time
other manufacturers have come and gone, but Perception remains the
world's leading manufacturer of modern kayaks. They've paddled more
water, created more innovations and introduced more people to the
sport of kayaking than any other boat maker. |
| Pinnacle Internet
|
Pinnacle offers ISP, hosting and development solutions with a real
focus on customer care. Pinnacle aims to get to know all its customers,
ensuring they have the right solution for the job, and somewhere to
turn when they have a problem. |
| Private Krankenversicherung
|
Health Insurance Quotations from Germany. |
| Starting
up in business |
If you're thinking about working for yourself, or you've just started,
you will find straightforward explanations of business taxes and regulations
on this site. |
| The Battersea
Pen Home |
Selling, buying and refurbishing vintage fountain pens. |
| Tourism South
East |
The official tourist board for Southern and South East England.
|
| Village
Directories |
Village Directories are published annually and delivered free of
charge to every home in 22 villages throughout West Sussex and are
used daily by 150,000 homes. Usually kept beside the phone, they contain
valuable information about all aspects of village life - clubs, societies,
schools, doctors, local government, trades people and specialist suppliers,
in fact all the information needed by families to help them organise
their lives. |
| Villages
Online |
More than just a directory of village Websites. |
| Vitamin Ltd
|
Vitamin are specialists in database driven e-commerce Websites
and back-end legacy systems integration. Work includes Intranet and
Extranet projects as well as public Websites. |
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| Camping le Petit Bois |
Simply the best! We've stayed at seven campsites in France, since
we bought our caravan, and this little site in La Corrèze (19) tops
the lot. It's clean, quiet and off the beaten track. |
| Go Camping |
This site is a useful guide for campers, or anyone thinking of camping and contains loads of information about equipment such as tents,
bedding and lights. The guide also has a useful section on where to go, camping etiquette and how to deal with nature.
|
| motorcaravanning.co.uk |
A UK on-line community and information resource for European motorcaravanners. |
| The Camping and Caravanning Club |
The oldest club for all campers. |
| Towsure |
Towing and leisure products. Everything for the great outdoors. |
| Website |
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| United
Devices Cancer Research Project |
The United Devices Cancer Research Project is asking you to volunteer
your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the
Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and
the National Foundation for Cancer Research. To participate, you simply
download a very small, no cost, non-invasive software program that
works like a screensaver: it runs when your computer isn't being used,
and processes research until you need your machine. Your computer
never leaves your desk, and the project never interrupts your usual
PC use. |
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| uswitch.com |
Compare gas and electricity prices. |
| Website |
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| Cycling |
Cycling East Sussex is dedicated to promoting cycling as a healthy and fun means of transport, leisure and sport. |
| Tour de France |
Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France was made up of 21 stages and covered a total distance of 3,500 kilometres. |
| Website |
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| eCards |
Send these Free Love Greetings, Birthday eCards, Friendship eCards, Flowers and Gift Cards , Wedding, lovely eCards to your near and dear ones. All cards are free of cost. |
| Website |
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| Eastbourne School
of English |
Eastbourne School of English is a non-profit-making organisation.
The School was established in 1936. Its objectives at the time were
to encourage people of all nations to learn the English language and
to build friendship between the countries of the world. |
| Emerson College
|
Emerson College, England is an international centre for adult education
based on the work of Rudolf Steiner. Students from 18 to 80 years
old come from all over the world to attend full-time courses in Waldorf
Teacher Training, Biodynamic Agriculture, Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy,
Visual Arts, Sculpture, Storytelling, Creative Writing and the Orientation
Programme for 18-21 year olds. |
| Europa
School of English |
Study in Bournemouth with Europa School of English, a privately
owned English language school. They offer short and long term General
English language courses, as well as exam preparation courses for
IELTS, TOEIC & Cambridge First Certificate. |
| Kingston University
|
Kingston University is located in the pleasant suburb of Kingston
upon Thames, just 25 minutes from central London. With about 17,000
students, it is the largest provider of higher education in south
west London. Kingston University is recognised as one of the country's
leading modern universities. |
| Meads
School of English Language |
Meads School of English is situated in the town centre of Eastbourne,
a delightful seaside resort town that has long been a favourite holiday
and English language study destination for people of all ages. |
| Seaford
Head Community College |
Hmm ... what can I say? |
| University College
Chichester |
University College Chichester was previously known as Chichester
Institute of Higher Education. |
| South Bank University
|
South Bank is a dynamic, inner-city university with a diverse multi-cultural
population of some 17,000 students and around 1700 staff. For over
100 years the university has provided top quality teaching and learning,
underpinned by relevant research and delivered in an environment that
is focussed on the needs of its students and the great capital city
of London. |
| Sussex
Downs College |
Sussex Downs College was established in 2001 from the merger of
two very successful colleges (Lewes Territory College and Eastbourne
College of Arts and Technology). It forms one of the first of a new
breed of colleges, aiming to bring the UK up to the standards of the
best performing countries in the world. It is a new-style college
for the 21st century, meeting the educational needs of all local people,
including employers, and working in close collaboration with other
providers and partner organisations. |
| University of
Brighton |
The quality of its teaching is one of the highest among UK universities.
Its researchers are acknowledged as international experts in their
fields. Many of its courses are recognised by professional bodies,
and its students benefit from one of the best graduate employment
records in the UK. To quote its students: "Brighton is a great place
to be a student... very vibrant, multicultural and welcoming... It's
London by the sea without the hassle... At night the streets are full
of young people having a good time... The university reflects the
progressive flavour of the city." |
| University of
Sussex |
The University of Sussex offers a unique environment for interdisciplinary
study and world-class research. This university is chosen by students
from over 100 countries, who are attracted by its academic reputation,
excellent facilities and beautiful campus. |
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|
1000's of UK job vacancies. |
jobrapido
Job Search Engine
| Jobrapido collects jobs from hundreds of different sources (job boards, recruiting agencies, corporate careers sites, etc) and makes them accessible to job seekers in a single search.
|
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Local jobs in Kingston, Merton, Surrey, Sutton, Sutton, Croydon
and Sussex. |
|
Online diary service and free searchable directory of creative
freelancers, including: graphic designers, art workers, photographers,
copywriters (Web and print), Flash animators, account handlers, marketing
and PR consultants, project managers, Web designers and developers.
|
| Website |
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| RinkWorks |
This is a privately owned entertainment Website based in New Hampshire.
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| Website |
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| Carbon Trust |
The Carbon Trust helps business and the public sector cut carbon emissions, and supports the development of low carbon technologies. |
| Office
Green |
The leading office products recycler. The largest collector of
used inkjet and toner cartridges in the UK. Demonstrating the financial
and environmental benefits of recycling. Supporting leading charities
and raising funds for worthy causes. Top prices paid for unwanted
mobile phones and used printer cartridges. |
| recycle-more.co.uk
|
This site is designed to provide information on recycling in the
UK. There are areas specially designed for your home, business, and
school. Just click on the menu at the top of the screen and enter
a world of recycling information and ideas. |
| Website |
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| Aljazeera.com
|
International English edition. |
| Ananova |
Entertaining news site. |
| BBC |
This unrivalled world renowned Website never ceases to inform,
educate and entertain. |
| Google |
Simply the best search engine. |
| Kartoo |
An innovative visual approach to search engine design. |
| Merriam-Webster
OnLine |
My favourite online dictionary. |
| Miniature
Earth |
Are you doing your bit to make this a better world? |
| The Register
|
Wacky IT-related news. |
| Wikipedia
|
Brilliant open source encyclopedia. |
| W3Schools.com
|
The best things in life are free. |
| Website |
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| Amaryllis Informatique
|
PC shop
Foix
Ariège département 09
Midi-Pyrénées région
boutique@amaryllis.fr
|
| Buying a home in France (teach yourself)
|
Essential reading! It is estimated that at least half a million Brits now own houses in France and that around 100,000 are buying, looking for, or at least thinking seriously about, a (second) home in France.
|
| CA Britline
|
French bank that allows accounts to be opened from the UK.
|
| Cabinet
Occitan - Immobilier |
Property agents, with other offices in Luchon and Lannemezan.
Proprietor: Louis Dencausse
10 rue du Barry
31210 Montréjeau
Haute-Garonne département 31
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 61 95 93 73
Fax 05 61 89 09 85
l.dencausse@wanadoo.fr
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| Château
de Mauvezin |
Forteresse médiévale de Gaston Febus (XIVème)
65130 Mauvezin
Hautes Pyrénées département 65
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél/Fax 05 62 39 10 27
chateau.mauvezin@wanadoo.fr
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| Expatica |
Weekly newsletter; an online source of information about life in France.
Includes: daily news, feature articles, weather and currency updates.
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| French Property News |
Magazine.
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| Gers Property
Services |
Property agents.
Proprietor: Colin G Johnson
Masseube
Gers département 32
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 62 66 94 56
contact@gersproperty.com
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| Hôtel
de la Tour |
Hotel with restaurant overlooking the river Salat.
Proprietor: Laurent Arrighi
Rue du Pont
09190 Saint-Lizier
Ariège département 09
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 61 66 38 02
Fax 05 61 66 38 01
HoteldelaTour@Hotel-Restaurant.net
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| Hôtel
Lons |
Hotel with restaurant overlooking the river Ariège.
6 place Georges Dutilh
09000 Foix
Ariège département 09
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 34 09 28 00
Fax 05 61 02 68 18
hotel-lons-foix@wanadoo.fr
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| La
Maison blanche |
Chambres d'hôtes.
Proprietors: Agnes and Alain Roques
09190 Lorp-Sentaraille
Ariège département 09
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 61 66 48 33
Fax 05 12 52 36 00
alain.roques@tele2.fr
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| Le
Murailles |
Auberge and chambres d'hôtes.
Proprietors: Sabrian and Jean-Yves Tetti
Route de Grazac
31190 Auterive
Haute-Garonne département 31
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél/Fax 05 61 50 76 98
lesmurailles@toscali.fr
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| Le site immobilier |
If you want to work out your notaire's fees, use the online calculator.
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| Living France |
Another magazine.
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| Massat Immo
|
Property agents.
Proprietor: Eric Geraud
4 rue de la Montagne
09320 Massat
Ariège département 09
Midi-Pyrénées région
Tél 05 34 14 39 94
Fax 05 34 14 39 95
massatimmo@wanadoo.fr
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| Meteo France (le climat par département)
|
Climate, by département.
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| Meteo France (prévisions)
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Weather forecasts, by région.
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| OuiCanHelp
|
Your best friend in France.
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| Photos of France
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France is
divided into 22 régions each subdivided into départements.
There are 96 departments in metropolitan France (ie the mainland and Corsica)
and another five in overseas territories.
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| Total France
|
Property search, trade directory, factsheets, advertising, classifieds, forum, member network, Web services, French news, metric converter, Expo & France library
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| WiFi hotspots in France
|
Intel Centrino mobile technology hotspot finder, on a region-by-region basis.
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| Website |
Comments |
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Ukuva iAfrica - A taste of Africa.
A range of products and selection of traditional African recipes.
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| Website |
Comments |
|
Everett Kaser Software specializes in logic games and puzzles intended
to stretch your mind, not the storage capacity of your hard disk or
the speed of your CPU. If you like games that you can play not just
for weeks, but for years and years, then this is the site for you!
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| Website |
Comments |
| Genes Reunited
|
UK-based family tree and genealogy site with over 5 million members.
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| Website |
Comments |
| History
World |
An ever expanding history resource helping to make history make
sense. Everybody's articles and images can be set in a world, national
and local context. |
| Mass
Observation Archive |
This Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
It contains papers generated by the original Mass-Observation social
research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected
continuously since the 1981. |
| Pastfinders
|
Coultershaw pump, mill and bridge, Rotherbridge Project, dewponds,
ice houses, lime kilns, Sussex history, Sussex churches, Saxon churches
in Sussex, Saxons in Sussex, Barpham, post boxes, Sussex Industrial
Archaeological Society, Adur River & district, Shoreham-by-Sea,
Arun, West Tarring, Findon Valley, Sussex Hundreds. |
Sussex
Archaeology
& Folklore |
Archaeology from the viewpoints of different people, like the historian,
the archaeologist, the folklorist and even the likes of the ghost
hunter and Earth mysteries researcher. |
| The
Aerial Reconnaissance Photographs |
The reputation of aerial reconnaissance took a skydive when Colin
Powel showed controversial photographs of Iraq to the UN Security
Council, during 2003. But now we have something really worth looking
at. More than 5 million images shot from on high by the RAF during
the Second World War are now freely available on the Internet. This
Website has been created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA)
at Keele University, an official place for deposit for Britain's National
Archives.
The aerial photographs include: British paratroopers seizing Pegasus
Bridge in the opening gambit of the Normandy invasion, American GIs
pouring onto the D-Day beaches, the German battleship Bismark
under pursuit by the Royal Navy, and before-and-after pictures of
the terrifying 1,000-bomber raid on Cologne, showing the miracle of
a great city flattened but its great Gothic cathedral intact, and
the open fires of Auschwitz in the final months of the war, when the
crematoriums could not cope with the sheer volume of genocide and
the victims were being burnt in mass pits, plus RAF aerial images
of Mostar, in the former Yugoslavia, showing Suleiman the Magnificent's
medieval bridge, which survived the bombing, and the Mulberry harbours
which were used as a base for the Normandy invasion.
The Keele project hopes to balance its archive with the view from
the other side, when it puts online a further 2.5 million Luftwaffe
aerial reconnaissance photographs of Eastern Europe seized by the
Allies at the end of the war, used as a vital source of Cold War intelligence
by the Soviet Union and declassified by Nato only during the 1990s.
Eventually, Keele hopes to be able to offer the aerial photographs
of all Britain's post-war military campaigns, from Korea to Iraq.
They may not show many weapons of mass destruction, and even if they
do, nothing will quite compare with the Holocaust smoke drifting over
quiet Polish fields. |
Worthing Museum
& Art Gallery |
Thousands of fascinating artefacts, dozens of fabulous exhibits
and numerous exciting events each year. Loads of free art and craft
fun for kids. Free admission. |
| Website |
Comments |
| All Too Flat
|
What is all this too flat nonsense anyway? It's an obscure Monty
Python reference: "He is an halibut. I chose him out of thousands.
I didn't like the others; they were all too flat." An odd mixture
of the funny, serious and geeky, plus some pranks. |
| b3ta: we love the
web |
Weird or quirky Web stuff. |
| boreme.com |
Have you got time to kill? |
| COTC Paranormal
Investigations |
They've got to be kidding. This is meant to be a joke. Right? |
| The Framley
Examiner |
Completely barmy British humour. The Framley Examiner is proud
to also be a book, made of paper. |
| Website |
Comments |
| FanWing |
The fourth great breakthrough in aeonautical engineering: Orville
and Wilbur Wright's powered plane, Sikorski's helicopter, Sidney Camm's
jump jet, and now Pat Peebles' fan wing.
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| ingenious
- Seeing things differently |
A new online resource celebrating human ingenuity. |
| Website |
Comments |
| Safety Screens Ltd |
The UK's largest manufacturer and installer of door insect screens.
These fly screens can be fitted over wooden, PVCu and metal doors. |
| Website |
Comments |
| Stealth tax
SCAMeras |
If you hate speed cameras then you'll love this site. Roll on the revolution. |
| Website |
Comments |
| Grigori
'Grisha' Perelman |
A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labours in near-seclusion
may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems,
the Poincaré Conjecture. Evidence has been mounting since November
2002 that Grigori 'Grisha' Perelman has cracked the 100-year-old problem,
which seeks to explain the geometry of three-dimensional space. If
Perelman succeeded, he could be eligible for a $1 million prize offered
by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Clay Mathematics Institute, formed to
identify the world's seven toughest math problems. Mathematicians
around the world have been checking Perelman's work in search of the
kind of flaws that have sunk the many other supposed solutions to
a problem first presented by the French mathematician Jules Henri
Poincaré in 1904. |
The
Golden Ratio:
The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty
|
A fascinating and well-illustrated book by Professor Mario Livio,
In a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and
biology, taking in fractals and psychology on the way, Mario Livio
takes us into the heart of this extraordinary number that has captured
our imagination for millennia. For this is also a story of obsession
- phi-fixated individuals who have devoted their lives to discovering
its secrets, among them the Pythagoreans who believed that the study
of the Golden Ratio would reveal the hand of God; the astronomer Johannes
Kepler, who felt that phi was one of the two greatest treasures
of geometry; and the modern day physicists and mathematicians who
are discovering ever more remarkable ramifications of this strange,
almost mystical number. The Golden Ration is a tale that begins with
the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, continues with the great artists
and thinkers of the Renaissance, and takes us right up to such masters
of the modern world as Bartok, Le Corbusier and Debussy. It is a story
which takes you into the heart of beauty itself. |
| What
Shape is a Snowflake: Magical Numbers in Nature |
An absolutely fascinating and lavishly illustrated book by Professor
Ian Stewart, which in my view is a bit of a nightmare to read as it
has been set throughout in a sans serif typeface. It's a great pity
that the publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, have succumbed to
the foibles of fashion in this way, as reading more than a page at
a time is quite a strain on the eyes. Nevertheless, it is a very compelling
book that explains the mathematics behind the wonders of nature quite
brilliantly. |
| Website |
Comments |
|
Electric double basses / upright contra basses from Bespoke Basses
- beautifully designed and portable. |
| Blues
in Britain |
This site reports on the blues scene, with emphasis on what's happening
here in the UK. You can read about the latest CD releases, live blues
as it happens, check out upcoming blues gigs both home and abroad
with full venue details, and get the lowdown and inside information
on the music you like to hear. |
| Blues
on the Farm |
Legendary blues festival that is held at Pumpbottom Farm, Appledram,
Chichester, West Sussex, each year during the summer. This open air
festival is generally held towards the end of June. Great music, terrific
atmosphere, plus a vast range of wonderful real ales and of course
Appledram ciders! Don't miss next year's ... the dates for 2004 were
Thursday the 24th June through to Sunday the 27th June. |
| Bognor
Regis Music Club |
A member of the National Federation of Music Societies. |
FIP
radio
91 or 98.5 FM |
Vive le FIP, fourth Thursday of every month.
Prince Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street, Brighton East Sussex.
Tel 01273 730 499 |
Hossam Ramzy
|
Egypt's Ambassador of Rhythm & the World's Leading Name in Egyptian Dance Music. |
| Radio Caroline |
The legend lives on! A blast from the past,still rocking around the world, after all these years.
Listen to Radio
Caroline live online now, or on Sky 0199. |
| Splatcat
Records |
Splatcat Records is a small digital studio specializing in assisting
the independent musician with high quality demos, live to two track
recording, and multi-track studio recording. |
| Sussex
Concert Listing Site |
The Sussex Concert Listing Site is a free service, providing amateur
musical groups with a way of advertising their events in Sussex on
the internet. |
| The Blackjacks
|
Rhythm and blues band. |
| True Blues
|
BBC Radio Wales: Euron Griffith celebrates the best that the blues has to offer, from the early days
of twelve-bar party music, through classic Delta and Chicago blues, to the scene's latest proponents.
Then News.
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| Website |
Comments |
| 1-language.com
|
Learn English as a Second Language via 1-language.com's online
ESL Center. |
| Acronym
Finder |
Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for ... |
| Acronyms
|
Acronyms for training and business. |
| Cockney
rhyming slang |
Cockney rhyming slang is an amusing, widely underestimated part
of the English language. Originating in London's East End in the mid-19th
century, Cockney rhyming slang uses substitute words, usually two,
as a coded alternative for another word. |
| Fun with
words |
Letter frequencies, letter groupings, collective nouns, proprietary
eponyms, contronyms, heteronyms, unusual word forms, negatives without
positives, numbers, word oddities, commonly misspelled words, commonly
mispronounced words, commonly confused words, word frequencies, palindromes,
pangrams, autograms, grammar foibles, conflicting proverbs, commonly
looked up words, glossary of linguistics and rhetoric, glossary of
fun words. |
| The
Collective Nouns |
This list is alphabetical by the collective noun. |
| Common
Errors in English |
This site is concerned only with deviations from the standard use
of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers,
editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers.
The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment
opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way
you write or speak. |
| Dictionary.com
|
Start your day with the 'Word of the Day' e-mail. It's free! |
| English as a Second
Language |
Many people have created ESL learning materials for the Web. This
site is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English
through the Web. It acts as a portal to the best free ESL sites. |
| Google
Directory: Natural Languages |
A mind boggling list of sites; information about every conceivable
aspect of language. |
| hyperdictionary
|
HyperDictionary.com is a continuation of an educational project
to provide free dictionary services to any user on the web. |
| Lorem Ipsum
|
Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing
and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard
dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley
of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived
not only four centuries, but now the leap into electronic typesetting,
remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with
the release of Letraset sheets containing Lipsum passages, and more
recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including
versions of Lipsum. |
| Merriam-Webster
OnLine |
An excellent online dictionary, thesaurus with word games, plus
much more. |
| Origins
and meanings of cliches, expressions and words |
Cliches and expressions give us many wonderful figures of speech
and words in the English language, as they evolve via use and mis-use
alike. Most have fascinating and surprising origins, particularly
as many popular assumptions about meanings and derivations are mistaken.
|
| Spoonerism Day
|
Create an e-card for "Spoonerism Day" (22 July). |
| The Skeptic's Dictionary
|
A collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous
delusions. |
| The Phrase
Finder |
Looking for the meaning or origin of a phrase or saying? Here's
free access to: A list of the meanings and origins of over a thousand
phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches in English. A discussion forum
where you can discuss the meanings and origins of phrases or sayings
with the people who know. Use the current forum to ask a question
or search the archives of more than 18,000 postings. |
| The Plain
English Campaign |
Plain English Campaign is an independent pressure group fighting
for public information to be written in plain English. It has more
than 3000 registered supporters in 70 countries. |
| Urban Dictionary
|
Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world. |
| Vocabulary Builder
|
Build vocabulary with flash cards, dynamic test and games, for
SAT, TOEFL, GMT, GRE and general vocabulary. |
| Vocabulix
|
Free online vocabulary and conjugations. Learn Spanish, German and English. |
| Wordorigins.org
|
This site is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as
a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word
origins. (It's not the study of insects, that's entomology!) |
| Word
Scrambler Thing |
Tihs stie slrcambes wdros so taht the frsit and lsat lrettes aaywls
reiamn the smae. The ieda benig taht so lnog as the fsrit and lsat
ltteres raeimn uhecagnnd tehn it deosn't rlelay mttaer if the rnniiameg
ltretes are slbmaecd. By the way, you ulalsuy get beettr rlustes wtih
laregr wdros, sncie (loclgialy) one smilpy cnonat sbcmarle wdors feewr
tahn fuor lteetrs in legnth, and wrdos hnaivg olny fuor lterets may
olny be slbramced one way. |
| Website |
Comments |
| ARKive |
Images and sounds of life on Earth. ARKive is a not-for-profit
initiative of The
Wildscreen Trust. It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era -
the world's centralised digital library of films, photographs and
associated recordings of species, accessible to all via the world
wide web. ARKive is leading the virtual conservation effort - finding,
sorting, cataloguing and copying the key records of species, and building
them into a comprehensive and enduring audio-visual record. |
| Butterfly
Conservation |
The alarming decline of many beautiful butterflies after the last
war led a small group of dedicated naturalists, headed by Sir Peter
Scott, to form Butterfly Conservation in 1968 as the British Butterfly
Conservation Society. The aim of the new Society was to try to halt
the decline of these lovely insects and at the same time help safeguard
the environment itself. Specifically they aimed to conserve both butterflies
and moths, as well as the habitats on which they depend. |
| Discovering fossils |
This site was launched in February 2003. It provides information for the benefit of those interested in the
study of paleontology. Whether you're an amateur or professional fossil collector, tourist or visitor, family or individual,
this Website aims to provide an interesting and concise guide to fossils and the locations where they are found. |
| Fauna &
Flora International |
Fauna & Flora International acts to conserve threatened species
and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable,
are based on sound science and take account of human needs. |
| Field
Studies Council |
The FSC (Field Studies Council) is a pioneering educational charity
committed to bringing environmental understanding to all. The FSC
is aware of the importance of the right setting and right atmosphere
to encourage learning. All Centres have been selected with great care
over its 60-year history. Each is a delightful place in a rich and
varied part of the country. As well as the formal work that is undertaken
on courses, they aim to give visitors, teachers and students an enjoyable
experience. Working out of doors in a range of environments, from
natural, through intensively managed to built-up, has many educational
benefits. |
| Livefood
UK |
Livefood UK is a family run business producing crickets, locusts
and other live insect foods since 1989 of the highest quality to enable
a very long shelf life and excellent nutritional value. |
| Raising
Insects as Reptile Food |
Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor), superworms (Zophobas morio),
waxworms (Galleria mellonella) and crickets (Acheta domestica).
|
| Suffolk
Coast & Heaths |
Suffolk Coast and Heaths is internationally recognised as a landscape
of special and unique beauty and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
(AONB). Discover all about the Suffolk Coast and Heaths. Find out
what makes them so special. Investigate the landscape and its wildlife.
|
| The Blue
Cross |
The Blue Cross, Britain's pets charity, aims to ensure the welfare
of companion animals by providing practical care, highlighting the
benefits of companionship between animals and people, and promoting
responsibility towards animals in the community. |
| The Gecko
Spot |
Featuring leopard, crested, wonder and big-headed geckos. Contains
comprehensive caresheets, photos of breeder adult leos (various morphs)
and crested geckos, and available offspring. |
| The
Woodland Trust |
The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated
to the protection of our native woodland heritage. |
| WILDGuides
|
WILDGuides is a publishing organisation with a commitment to support
wildlife conservation. WILDGuides specialises in definitive yet simple-to-use
identification field guides to wildlife. Publications include: Arable
Plants - a field guide; Britain's Dragonflies; Britain's Butterflies
(including sections on eggs, caterpillars and chrysali); Birds, Mammals
& Reptiles of the Galápogos Islands; Whales & Dolphins
of the European Atlantic; A Visitor's Guide to the Falkland Islands.
|
| Website |
Comments |
|
You've already heard the West's point of view ...
... now you can hear the other side of the story ... Al Jazeera English.
A different perspective.
"Right now Al Jazeera is the new frontier" Sir
David Frost, OBE.
Watch 'Frost Over the World' on Al Jazeera English.
United Kingdom: Sky Digital - Channel 514.
How to watch Al Jazeera English worldwide. |
| Ananova |
An entertaining news site. |
| BBC |
This unrivalled world renowned Website never ceases to inform,
educate and entertain. |
| Website |
Comments |
| Ireland
|
Thinking about paying a visit to Ireland? Then you've come to the
right place. Whatever stage you're at with your holiday planning,
use the features on this page to get a flavour of the enchanted island.
Visit Ireland - you'll have a wonderful time. |
| Orford and
Orford Ness |
A true Suffolk treasure, Orford has remained mostly unaffected
by the 20th Century. The town grew up around a 12th Century Royal
castle, of which the surviving 90 foot high keep dominates the surroundings
of Orford to this day. Henry II built the castle for coastal defences
and against invaders from the sea, underlining the political and commercial
importance of the area at that time. Nowadays the town is not so politically
or commercially central! However, it still has its areas of importance
and it is still a beautiful and relaxing area to visit. |
| The Knowhere
Guide |
A user's guide to Britain. Info for over 2000 places in the UK
covering hook-up spots, skateboard shops, skateboard spots, record
shops, musical instrument shops, clothes shops, clubs (dance music),
music venues, cinemas, arts crafts and head shops, games shops, bike
shops, magazine and comic shops, newsagents, food, pubs, buskers,
street entertainers, cringing cult of celebrity (famous residents
and ex-residents), favourite building, demolish it now building, cafes
and coffee shops, the best things, the worst things, the stuff they
can't fit in somewhere else, related links, sports clubs and facilities.
And it has all been contributed by users of the Knowhere Guide. So
it's all true, right? |
| The Spanish
Dream |
If you are looking to buy a property in Spain, or if you wish to
rent a home or villa, here is something very unique. You cut out the
middle man, saving yourself a fortune - whether you are advertis | |
