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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club - Official Site. Includes up-to-date news concerning the club and forthcoming international fixtures. Online store.
Orston Shooting Ground - Registered with the CPSA and is an affiliated member. All layouts at Orston are CPSA approved. Located Orston, Nottinghamshire.
British Parachute School - At Langer Airfield, Nottingham. Offers Tandems, RAPS and AFF. Features online booking, news and events.
Kuki Helicopter Flight Training - Information about training available, including details of the aircraft. Also contains details of the self-fly hire service, maps, company profile, news and downloads.
Team Grimace - Mountain bike team, ride and compete around the country for charity events. Photos and information.
Nottinghamshire Orienteering Club - With a membership of about 330, NOC is one of the larger clubs in the United Kingdom. It is a member club of the East Midlands Orienteering Association (EMOA). Geographically the club covers the county of Nottinghamshire with most of its mapped areas laying within the remnants of Sherwood Forest.
Nottinghamshire Beekeepers' Association - Diary and details of events, shows, and beekeeping courses. Contact details.
Nottingham County Scout Council - Supervising body of the 161 Nottinghamshire Scout Groups, organises training and such.
Calverton Swimming Club - Has news, history, fixtures diary, results since 2002, records, and a password-controlled members area. The club runs learn-to-swim as well as training competitive squads. [May not work in all browsers; requires JavaScript]
Nottinghamshire Chess Association - Includes league tables and details of current/forthcoming tournaments.
Notts County Mailing List - Supporters of Notts County mailing list. Discuss current issues with fellow friends. This list has over 200 members.
Commando Paintball - Details of services avaliable, terms and booking.
Nottingham Casuals Rugby Club - Includes teams, news, directions, photographs and links.
East Midlands Carp Study Group - Carp angling group providing guest speakers and shop discounts. Details of upcoming events, joining instructions and photo gallery.
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Recreation and Sports Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Recreation and Sports Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Recreation and Sports Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Recreation and Sports 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. -- Crowf I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Recreation and Sports I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Recreation and Sports When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Recreation and Sports "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Recreation and Sports I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Recreation and Sports Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant 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. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Recreation and Sports When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Recreation and Sports In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Recreation and Sports
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