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Recreation and Sports Links

Brabyns Lawn Tennis Club - Brabyns Tennis Club based in Marple, Cheshire. Includes membership details, club and competitive tennis, calendar, social events and details of coaching available.
Marple Athletic Junior Football Club - A junior amateur football club for all local boys in the Marple area from the ages of 8 to 16.
Marple Cricket Club - One of the founder members of the Cheshire County Cricket League. The site provides latest news, match reports and contacts to join the club.
Marple Swimming Club - Classes for a wide range of abilities from beginners, through intermediate levels and up to competitive team swimming. Includes competition and events calendars, plus club news.
Mellor FC Football Club - Mellor Amateur Football Club currently runs three open age teams, playing on Saturday afternoons. It was founded in 1923 in Mellor, Stockport, Cheshire by members of the Hambleton family. Includes information about players, history, stories, news and statistics.
Marple Scouts - Marple is the home of a thriving scouting community with a Beaver colony, four Cub-Scout packs, two Scout Troops, and a Venture Unit. It's been the home of scouting since 1908. Includes information about activities, camping, gangshows and other news about what the scouts are up to.
Linnet Clough Patrol Camp 2002 - Pictures of 401st Manchester Scout Troop Camp at Linnet Clough Camp Site near Marple - May/June 2002
Dragon Miniature Railway - An independent 7ΒΌ"-gauge miniature railway run by volunteers, situated in the grounds of Wyevale Garden Centre. Includes news and history, plus locomotive and track details.
New Mills, Marple & District Round Table - Web site of the New Mills, Marple & District branch of the Round Table, organisers of the popular Marple Raft Race and Christmas Float. Includes information about the group's charity work, events, history, membership and contact details.
Marple Rifle & Pistol Club - Small bore, full bore, muzzle loading and airgun rifle and pistol club. Includes club history, newsletter, contact details and shooting hints and tips.
The Ring o' Bells, Marple - A traditional local pub and restaurant alongside Bridge No. 2 on the Macclesfield Canal. Includes a tour of the pub, history, beers, food and menus, events and how to find the pub by canal or road.
Roman Lakes Leisure Park - Featuring the amenities and leisure pursuits based at and around Roman Lakes Leisure Park, situated between Marple and Mellor. Includes nature & history trails, rambling, fishing, boating and bike hire.
Marple Bujinkai Karate Club - A traditional Karate club with classes for every level of ability, for people aged 6 to 60. Includes news, syllabus and information about Bujinkai Karate, plus photo galleries from recent events.
Friends of Marple Memorial Park - Web site of the Friends of Marple Memorial Park - Includes information about the group plus an on-line survey to enable visitors to influence their activities in the park.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "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) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Recreation and Sports A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Recreation and Sports The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Recreation and Sports We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Recreation and Sports The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Recreation and Sports "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Recreation and Sports The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "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 Recreation and Sports Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "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) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Recreation and Sports It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Recreation and Sports I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "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) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Recreation and Sports "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports My other wife is beautiful. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Recreation and Sports If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Recreation and Sports You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Recreation and Sports "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Recreation and Sports Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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
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