Scubasport - PADI training and dive club, with information about training and equipment available.
Chester Road Brigades - Covers the 3rd Sutton Coldfield Boys Brigade and 1st Sutton Coldfield Girls Brigade Companies. Includes events guide and newsletters.
Streetly Motor Club - Meets in Wishaw. Members are actively involved in Special Stage Rallying in the UK and abroad. Includes news, calendar, contacts, gallery and membership information.
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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-- David Starr Jordan "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Recreation and Sports "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Recreation and Sports
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Recreation and Sports A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Recreation and Sports
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Recreation and Sports I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Recreation and Sports
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Recreation and Sports There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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. Recreation and Sports
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports
