Founded Friday 13th August 1999

Nemo me impune excitat

Department of Planning and Idea Generation
Department of Railed Transport
Department of Sleeping
Department of Staying-in-Bed
Department of Comment, Satire and Tripe
Department of Engineering
Department of Recycling
Seasonal Area
How To...
Fun Stuff
A History of the British Railway
Wye Valley Railway
Our History
Links
Copyright (last updated August 2010)
Contact
Egress

Welcome to the website of the Order of the Bed - an organisation devoted to the construction of a new world order around comfort, sleep and, most importantly, Beds. This website probably won't say much about the details, as the policy creators are all too busy lazing around to do any work, but enjoy your visit anyway.

This is a long homepage, so we will begin at the top. The Order of the Bed is divided into four major departments:

Department of Planning and Idea Generation

Planning for the Order and the future (or so it says).

Department of Railed Transport

Overseeing our rail-related operations (not that we have any).

Department of Sleeping

Campaigning for a nationwide rise in sleeping (by sleeping).

Department of Staying-in-Bed

The core of the Order's original aims.

Then we have two long-running and popular sections which represent the most frequently updated bits of the website:

The Wye Valley Railway

A Planning Department project which may be better understood if that page is read first. Consisting of over 100,000 words, this area has been commented on, examined, referenced and plagiarised (including in a planning application to build a cycleway on the railway), befitting its role as the largest source of information about the Wye Valley Railway (an insignificant border branch line) on the entire Internet.

Seasonal Area

Paid for out of the Comment, Satire and Tripe budget, although generally run by the Planning Department, this section provides a monthly pretty picture of some description with a three to five paragraph comment. Comes with a back archive of these pictures and comments back to January 2009.

And apparently we're suppose to also promote:

The Founder's Blog

The Founder has gone out and got himself a blog without telling anyone. Apparently he wants something that he can do little things with more easily and show that he is "aware of social networking". (90-page websites are so dated.) It's hosted on Wordpress. Naturally this site is still updated too.

After that we come to our collections of other pages on various interesting topics, all of which reckon that they deserve to be higher up the page but are in fact managed by people who have nothing better to do:

Department of Comment, Satire and Tripe

Offers a suitably biased view of the world and plays host to various little articles.

How To...

...well, do anything really, unless we haven't written a page on it yet.

Fun Stuff

Contains bad jokes, strange riddles, several mazes and ideas for making stuff.

A History of the British Railway

Someone got carried away and produced this set of interesting articles with a fairly self-explanatory title.

Finally we have a collection of pages on other useful topics in various stages of disrepair:

Engineering Department

Our History

Recycling Department

Links

The Egress

Contact

Thanks for reading this far down and please enjoy the site.

Copyright and legalish stuff page

Yeah, we hate it too. Basically, we own everything here (please don't nick it); if you have any problems do get in touch and something may be done about it.

We haven't tried to include any evil bugs in this website and on these grounds disclaim all liability for any mean stuff it might do to your computer. Produced on obsolete web design software with liberal application of tables to make it look good.

Last modified 15/03/11

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