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Basingstoke and District Beekeepers' Association - Information about bees, beekeeping, wax, honey, local beekeeping events and beekeeping newsletters.
Overton and Basingstoke Tae Kwon Do Club - WTF style Tae Kwon Do club based in northern Basingstoke.
Basingstoke Swimming Club - The club runs an extensive range of courses for those who wish to learn to swim.
BADO - Basingstoke Andover District Orienteers - Aims to run a Badge event every 18 months or so. Each year it also runs several full colour-coded events, and the occasional local, score or night event.
Freedom Youth - An organisation for young people in Basingstoke (and surrounding area), who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or unsure of their sexuality.
Basingstoke Waterpolo Club - The Home of Basingstoke Waterpolo Club.
Basingstoke Silver Band - A group of about 30 Brass players from all walks of life who play purely for pleasure.
8th Basingstoke Scouts Home Page - Based at the London Street URC Church.
Basingstoke Kendo Club - An established Kendo club that meets every Friday at the Richard Aldworth School.
Basingstoke Skater Hockey Forum - Promotes the sport of Roller and Ice Hockey in Basingstoke.
Basingstoke Amateur Boxing Club - For males and females, all welcome over the age of 10.
Basingstoke Camcorder Club - Local club for video enthusiasts. Site gives details of meeting dates, projects, productions and social events.
Basingstoke & District Railway Society - Holds bi-monthly meetings and every year the society organises trips to sites of railway interest, both in Britain and abroad.
1st Popley Scout Group - Beavers, Cubs and Scout group meeting at Gabriel's Church hall.
Basingstoke & North Hants Model Railway Society - The Society supports 3 interest groups, each working on exhibition quality layouts in their chosen scale & styles.
Basingstoke Camera Club - Shows programme of meetings, competitions and galleries of pictures by members.
Beechdown Health Club and Conference Centre - Offers members a comprehensive range of facilities for exercising in luxury.
Dummer Golf Club - 18 hole Par 72 golf course set in 160 acres of peaceful Hampshire countryside to the south-west of Basingstoke.
Basingstoke and Deane Canoe Club - Enjoy the calm of an evening paddle on the Basingstoke Canal. Also offers white water, surf and sea kayaking and pool sessions. Courses operated by qualified BCU Coaches.
PostMortem Studios - Web site detailing the local activities of the Basingstoke branch of the Camarilla UK role-playing organisation.
Boys' Brigade - 6th Basingstoke Company (Popley) - Activities page, news, pictures, links. Also a section on the 'Watership Activity Centre' in Burghclere: how to hire and costs.
Ice Synchro - Synchronized skating teams in Basingstoke. Includes practice times, latest news, synchro elements and competitions.
Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletics Club - Includes team news and fixtures.
Basingstoke and District Beekeepers' Association - Information on membership, beekeeping courses, events, brief introduction for beginners. Also association newsletters, and a progress report on building their Millenium Beehouse.
Aldershot Model Club - Model aircraft club based in old Basing. Profile, events, news, tips, newsletters and information about membership.
Basingstoke Ice Sakting Club - Profile, safety policy, events, competitions and results.
Accessible Boating Association - Provides facilities for the disabled to enjoy canal trips and water activities on the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire.
Black Dam Sea Scout Group - Caters for children aged 6 to 14 years. Profile, news, activities and a photo gallery with membership information.
Basingstoke Area Nature Group - Natural history news, events and site guides for the area. Includes extensive illustrated species lists.
Basingstoke Motorcycle Action Group - Local branch of MAG details the aims of the group, where to find them, calendar of activities and contact details.
Fun House - Indoor adventure playground of all children up to 12 years old, located on Daneshill Industrial Estate. Details of facilities, location, prices and a photo gallery.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Inter-Varsity Club - Non-commercial social and leisure organisation for graduates, professionals and career people.
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Recreation and Sports There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Recreation and Sports Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Recreation and Sports I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Recreation and Sports A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Recreation and Sports Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Recreation and Sports "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Recreation and Sports With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright 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) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan 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 Recreation and Sports If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Recreation and Sports "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Recreation and Sports What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Recreation and Sports "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Recreation and Sports
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