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Lissome's Hound Trailing Photos - Site dedicated to information and photos of the sport of hound trailing. Also a noticeboard.
The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District - All about the FRCC, rock-climbing guidebooks, crag information, where and what to climb, bouldering, recent developments and a photo gallery.
Over The Hills - Organise off-road "safaris" in which small groups of vehicles are guided along ancient green lanes in the Lake District, calling in on those "hidden gems", those interesting little places "off the beaten track" that visitors don't normally find.
The Sportsphysio.com - International physio and training services to business, industry and sport. Based in Carlisle.
Lake District Outdoors - Information for people interested in walking and cycling in Cumbria. Details of walks, routes and tour operators, transport, weather and safety advice. Includes a discussion forum.
The Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society - The CWAAS promotes and co-ordinates the study of the Archaeology, History, Genealogy, Customs and Traditions of the historic Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and Lancashire - North of the Sands (what is now the Furness Peninsula).
Hardy Plant Society - Cumbria Group - Newsletter, activities and information on plant conservation issues. Based in Kendal.
Cumbria Bird Club - The club brings together people from all over the county to share their experiences and love of birding.
Cumbria health clubs and gyms - Directory of health and fitness clubs and gyms in Cumbria
Westmorland Damson Association - Formed by a group of local people who wished to preserve the damson orchards in the old County of Westmorland, especially in and around the Lyth Valley.
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - News and events from the Cumbrian section of this society for owners of Japanese motorcycles over 15 years of age.
Westmorland County Show - takes place each September near Kendal, providing a mixture of agricultural shows, over 250 trade stands and craft exhibits.
Cumberland Geological Society - The society has a reputation as an active, amateur scientific society interested in all aspects of geology, particularly the county of Cumbria and the Lake District.
Cumbria Folk News - Information about folk club events at various locations throughout Cumbria.
Cumbria Canoeists - Information for canoeists and kayakers paddling in Cumbria and the English Lake District.
Cumbrian Railways Association - An association for those interested in the railways of Cumbria, UK.
Horse Holidays in Cumbria - A group who has an abiding interest and understanding of horses, and who will help you plan exciting days out exploring open fells, forest trails, bridle-ways and quiet country lanes.
West Cumberland Orienteering Club - Fixtures and results for this club based in the Western half of the Lake District.
Orienteering in the Lake District - Events, results and photos for the various North West orienteering clubs.
Lakeland Orienteering Club - Results and fixtures for the Lakeland Orienteering Club.
Online Gurning - The world's first ever online gurning competition.
Golf Clubs in Cumbria - Comprehensive details of all golf clubs and courses in Cumbria, with information direct from the clubs themselves. Also golf clubs and course reviews by golfers.
Scuba Divers in the English Lake District - Scuba Dive in Cumbria's National Park. All the sites, maps, full descriptions, club and air listings, scuba weather report, and underwater photos.
SportSpecial.co.uk - Sport in Cumbria, featuring local reports on rugby league, hound trails, rugby union, speedway, comets, soccer, reds, cricket, pigeons, racing pigeons, flying clubs, pub quiz, golf. Timetable of fixtures, and a message board.
Ruskin Lace with Elizabeth Prickett - A unique type of traditional needlework based on the ideas of John Ruskin. Currently contains history - more sections to be added.
Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society - An industrial history group whose purpose is to bring together those with an interest in exploring, researching and recording mining activities in Cumbria. History, news, events and publications.
Cumbria Scouts' International Camp - 2002, July 27 - August 3rd, Westmorland County Showground. Includes event information, application, and contacts.
Kentai Karate - Karate classes at Carlisle, Wigton and Barrow-in-Furness. Details and events diary.
Cumbria Bridleways Society - Society interested in promoting 'Rights of Way'. News, events, maps, message board and accommodation details for riders with horses.
Cumbrian Society of Organists - Holds regular meetings and promotes interest in all aspects of classical church organs. News, events, and features.
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Recreation and Sports "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Recreation and Sports When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Recreation and Sports "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Recreation and Sports The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Recreation and Sports "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Recreation and Sports Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Recreation and Sports Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Recreation and Sports I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Recreation and Sports Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Recreation and Sports When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Recreation and Sports "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports My other wife is beautiful. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Recreation and Sports Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Recreation and Sports "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports
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