Shropshire Caving and Mining Club - Features rescue, and digging activities. Also includes members historical research, underground trips, and news.
Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre - A visitor centre focusing on the history and environment of the Shropshire Hills, England. Set in 25 acres of attractive meadows with nature trails.
Wood Lane Nature Reserve - Nature Reserve located in North Shropshire containing wetland area and traditional hay meadow.
Kidz and Co - Paintballing, quadbiking, inflatables, bouncy castles and other activities for kids and families.
Shropshire Sailing Club - Dinghy sailing club offering a RYA training and a programme of racing, cruising and social events.
Wrekin Orienteers - Includes photos, articles and contact information.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Recreation and Sports Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Recreation and Sports
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Recreation and Sports History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Recreation and Sports
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Recreation and Sports It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Recreation and Sports
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Recreation and Sports
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Recreation and Sports
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Recreation and Sports More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Recreation and Sports
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Recreation and Sports The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Recreation and Sports
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Recreation and Sports Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
