Linc-LoveLinks - Introductions agency for people in North Lincolnshire. Information on company, FAQs and application form.
Yellowbellies - Message board for serious and not-so-serious discussion of Lincolnshire subjects.
Metheringham Area Community Leisure Association - The Lincolnshire villages of Metheringham, Blankney, Dunston and Scopwick with details of the social and community activities that happen there.
The Lincolnshire Cafe - Articles, news and an interactive community where Lincolnshire folk can ask questions, share experiences, advice and information, and make e-friends. Features The Lincs Links Newsletter and a section devoted to charity fund-raising coffee mornings.
Metheringham & Dunston First Responders - A registered charity providing emergency medical care in support of doctors in the Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service scheme. Information on how to volunteer.
MartinTimberland Website - Covers the villages of Martin and Timberland with details of local businesses, events and activities.
Lincolnshire YFC - Young Farmers' Club features details of local clubs and contacts, news and events.
Lincolnshire Herb Society - Formed to revive the interest and study the use of Herbs. Information on the society and events.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
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-- Adela Rogers St. John The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Voltaire Society and Culture
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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-- George Bernard Shaw What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
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It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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-- Gandhi Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
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