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Strider Marine. - Details of the 25' Strider club family cruising multihull yacht. Page generates pop up advertising windows.
Torpoint Mosquito Sailing Club - Information on dingy sailing and yacht cruising and racing with the club. The restaurant and cadet sections of the club are covered, and there is a section on round-the-world sailor Pete Goss, who learned to sail at the club and is still a member today.
HM Coastguard, Tamar. - Comprehensive site covering not only the coastguards themelves, their boat and Landrover, and local lifeguard services, but also the nearby rescue helicopter, neighbouring rescue services and some links. Not an official Coastguard site.
Torpoint School Reunion - Proposed reunion for the class of '94.
Cornerstone Methodist Church - Joint URC and Methodist church. History, worship, mission, redevelopment plans and links. Part of the Plymouth and Devonport circuit.
Millbrook Methodist Church - Music, junior church, 'yoof pages', links and chat room. Part of the Plymouth and Devonport circuit.
Torpoint Badminton Club - Features match news and results, photos and contact information.
Millbrook CEVA Primary School - Staff, curriculum, calendar and school documents.. Includes examples of work by pupils and an explanation of the Church of England funding.
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(Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Torpoint And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. 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(Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins 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." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Torpoint There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Torpoint "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Torpoint "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Torpoint Virtue is not left to stand alone. 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