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Christchurch Ski and Leisure Centre - Situated near Hurn and offering skiing and snowboarding lessons, ski-bobbing and an alpine adventure park. Information about activities, events, parties, shop and restaurant.
Dorset Open Golf Centres - 9 and 18 hole pay and play golfing courses with practice range. Home to the Monty (Colin Montgomerie) Golf School. (Flash required)
Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre - Sports facililty featuring a gym, swimming pool, squash courts, badminton courts, golf and 5-a-side football. Details of activities with session prices and timetable.
Highcliffe Sailing Club - Located on Mudeford Quay. Information about training, racing, results and junior section.
Southcoast Windsurfing - Tuition and organised sailing weekends in the bay. Provides information about the location, instructors and teaching methods.
Christchurch Angling Club - Freshwater and harbour fishing including membership information, day tickets, details of sections and records.
Christchurch Gun Club - Provides facilities for target shooting with firearms, airguns and shotguns. Section information and guide to range safety.
Avonmouth Watersports - Provides sailing lessons and courses in Christchurch harbour. Overview, contact information and price list.
Christchurch Rowing Club - Situated on the River Stour. Includes race results, training information and contact details of committee members.
Christchurch Tae Kwon Do Club - Martial arts training with background information, venue details and instructor profile.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Recreation and Sports Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Recreation and Sports History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Recreation and Sports "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Recreation and Sports My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Recreation and Sports Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Recreation and Sports All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Recreation and Sports "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Recreation and Sports 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 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Recreation and Sports A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Recreation and Sports I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Marriage is a rest period between romances. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Recreation and Sports Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Recreation and Sports The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Recreation and Sports Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Recreation and Sports
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