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The Avon Schools Orienteering Association - Provides information, results, fixtures, newcomers section, associated links and guest book.
Bristol Orienteering Klub - Club membership, results, league and event details, organiser's manual and information about local courses.
Avon Outdoor Activities Club - Engages in climbing, caving, skiing, biking, and swimming. Includes activity pages, schedule, photos, and membership information.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Outdoors When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If I were a girl, I'd despair. 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Mead Outdoors The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Outdoors "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Outdoors "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Outdoors In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." 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Kennedy Outdoors "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Outdoors If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. 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