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CHAR Raft Race - Committee for Herefordshire Amateur Rafters is the organising club for the sport of super rafting on the river Wye, in the Welsh border counties.
Luctonians On-Line - All sporting activities, including cricket, rugby and air rifle clubs at Luctonians, Mortimer Park, Herefordshire.
Oaker Wood Leisure - Oaker Wood Leisure Activities provide argocats, paintballing and quadbiking for corporate entertainment, stag and hen parties and fun days out.
Hortus Gardening Magazine. - Quarterly journal which addresses itself to intelligent and lively-minded gardeners throughout the English-speaking world.
Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust - News about the restoration of this 34 mile long canal, together with event listings and historical information.
The Herefordshire Gliding Club Ltd - Based at Shobdon Airfield, with newsletter, events listings, details of courses and other gliding links.
Wye Pursuits - A canoe hire and adventure centre based in the Wye Valley.
Hereford Paintballing - Located near Bodenham. Site includes details of prices and the games available, along with a photo gallery.
Wye Valley Aviation - Specialises in balloon flights. Sites gives details of the services on offer, and also includes a gallery of aerial photographs of Ross-on-Wye and the surrounding area.
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Recreation and Sports The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Recreation and Sports "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Recreation and Sports Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Recreation and Sports A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Recreation and Sports Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Recreation and Sports Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Recreation and Sports Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Recreation and Sports I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Recreation and Sports
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