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Cheverton Shooting Ground - Clay pigeon shooting ground. Skeet, DTL and compak sporting. Shorwell.
Colonel Bogeys Nightclub - Located in Culver Parade in Sandown.
Martial Arts Club - Based in Westridge, Ryde offering evening classes in Kickboxing, Karate, Thai Boxing and Combat Ju-Jitsu. Details of classes and news and events.
The Isle of Wight Grand National and Ashey Scurry - An annual event held in Ashey, near Ryde. The next fixture is Sunday 17th March 2002.
A guide to fishing on the Isle of Wight - Information on fish, bait and locations available.
Isle Of Wight Gun Club - Clay pigeon club, shooting Skeet and DTL. Located near Godshill.
Langbridge Underwater Shooting Team - Small private clay shooting club. Visitors by invitation only.
Isle of Wight County Darts Association - Reports, fixtures, rosters, honours list, results, and links.
Club Dance Pegasus - Dance school. Describes the organisation and the dance styles taught with news, photo gallery and class schedule.
The Blackwater Raft Race - Photographs and videos.
Isle of Wight Ice Dance & Figure Skating Club - Information about the club and its tuition and shows with news and events.
Cycle Wight - Promotes cycling on the island with news, galley and local cycle shops.
Isle of Wight Cycling - An enthusiasts' site with information on events, clubs, sports and recreational cycling.
Extremists Isle of Wight Mountain Bike Club - Profile, event calendar, ride guide and newsletter.
Birding on the Isle of Wight (IOW) - A resource on birding on the Isle of Wight. Includes records of sightings, photographs and information about the Isle Of Wight Ornithological Group and contact details.
Wight Offroad - A company offering off road mountain biking with bike hire and qualified instructors. Includes an online gallery, price chart and contact information.
Isle of Wight Evo Cars - An informal group of enthusiasts, dedicated to the ownership and enjoyment of Japanese performance on the Island. Includes details of meets, a forum and information and FAQs on various Japanese cars.
Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "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) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Recreation and Sports I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning 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 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Recreation and Sports "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Recreation and Sports "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Recreation and Sports "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal 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. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Recreation and Sports Man and wife make one fool. I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Recreation and Sports If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Recreation and Sports The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. 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 Recreation and Sports "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Recreation and Sports "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Recreation and Sports Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown 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 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Recreation and Sports Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Recreation and Sports
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