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British Buggy Club (BBC) - Ian Meredeth runs a popular kite buggy club organising fun events. Cheap insurance for Europeans.
Artistic Kite Group - Charlie Charlton's Kite Site - Help and advice on building and decoration of your kites, picture gallery, plans, tips & techniques.
Avon Kite Flyers (AKF) - Popular club based in the Bristol area.
Brighton Kite Fliers (BKF) - Friendly club in Brighton, including the Bearly Made It Skydiving Squad (BMISS).
British Kite Surfing Association - BKSA kite surf site with free registration, kitesurf message board and everything kitesurfing in the UK
Golden Valley Kite Fliers (GVKF) - GVKF - Kite club based in Gloucester.
Midlands Kite Fliers - One of the largest kite groups in the UK. Kite events calendar, benefits, fees, plans and reports
STACK UK - Sport Team And Competitive Kiting - the principal UK organisation for competitions in all categories of 2 and 4 line flying.
Kent Kite Klub - Formed in 1991 - Organisers of the Blackheath festival.
Kite Society of Great Britain (KSGB) - Long established organisation overseeing British flying.
Lyme Park Kite Fliers - Casual club of fliers from Northern England.
North East Kite Fliers - Promoting the hobby of kite building and flying in the North East of England. Includes the European Air Gallery of painted Edo kites.
Poole Kite Fliers, Dorset - Database of UK Kite Clubs, Traders, Teams, Personalities & Flying Sites + World-wide Website Links
White Horse Kite Flyers - Long established club, based in Wiltshire.
The Parakart Association (PKA) - The official home of parakarting in the UK. The PKA organises insurance, events and buggy racing in the UK.
Thorpe Kite Fliers (TKF) - Small, but growing club in Norfolk.
KiteFanatics - Traction Kiting in the S.E. - A group of UK traction kite enthusiasts. Meet other kiters, find new places to fly, browse our calendar and pick up tips!
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(Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Organisations The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Organisations I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? 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Mencken Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Organisations Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Organisations A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. 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