Lake District Paragliding - The company is based in the Coppermines Valley of Coniston, and offers paragliding training. Taster days, 4 day basic training courses, and 5 to 7 day training courses.
Lanehead Outdoor Recreation Centre - The Lanehead Centre offers a wide variety of outdoor pursuits for young people, including kayaking, abseiling, ghyll scrambling and caving.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Recreation and Sports If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Recreation and Sports blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Recreation and Sports When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Recreation and Sports Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Recreation and Sports
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley May you never leave your marriage alive. Recreation and Sports
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Recreation and Sports
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Recreation and Sports
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Recreation and Sports Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Recreation and Sports
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Recreation and Sports
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Recreation and Sports
