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Graham Adams Associates - Electronic and software design. Information on the product range which include audio, video and car accessories.
Ballater School, Royal Deeside - Includes school newsletter, school handbook, reunion information and photographs.
Ballater Bloodhound - Crime prevention advice for local residents.
A. Cassie, General Merchant - Shop photos, a profile of the owner. Contact and Royal Warrant details.
Ballater Judo Club - News, competitions, picture gallery, results and profiles.
Ballater Football Club - News, results, statistics and photographs.
Ballater Hair Studio - Offering the services of the local hairdresser. Provides photographs, services and contact details.
H.M. Sheridan - Butcher, offering poultry and game. Range of products, history of business and competitions won. Royal Warrant details.
Butterworth Paintings - Highlights the work of local artist, Howard Butterworth.
Amber Computing and IT Services, Ltd. - Sells custom built computers and provides web design services. Includes a portfolio and contacts.
Ballater Eagle - Selected items from current and past editions of the local community magazine.
George.W.Strachan - Licensed grocer, purveyor of bottled malt whisky for collectors. Royal Warrant details.
McHardy/MacHardy of Ordachoy - Charting of the family tree. Local connections with Royal Deeside.
McEwan Gallery - Art gallery close to village. Choice of paintings from 18th/19th/20th century artists and a selection of prints depicting Highlanders by Edinburgh artist John Williamson.
Martin Reekie Photography - Black and white fine art photography offered by local resident. Includes gallery, on-line order form and contact details.
Ballater Health Centre - Details of doctors and staff, clinic services, opening hours, appointment and contact information.
A.B. Yule - Book shop and toy shop with mail order facility.
Ballater Bugle - Satirical view of village life.
Ballater Golf Club - Details of green fees, golf buggy hire, course guide, contact numbers and membership information. Pictures of course.
Queen Victoria, Images Of Her World - Pictorial history highlighting Queen Victoria's links with the local area.
Rowan Tree Restaurant - Situated in centre of village. Listing sample menus, location and contact details.
The Deeside Piper - Details of local newspaper.
The Charitable Chiels - A local charity group raising funds for the community. Includes pictures and details of past and forthcoming events.
Malts.com - Information about blended Scotch whisky, single malt whiskies, related gifts, available on or close to Royal Deeside.
Cairngorms National Park Authority - Interim website of the newly formed Authority.
Welcome to Ballater - Includes 'What's On', local information, upcoming events, pictures and contact details.
9 Zero Freewheelers - Local mountain biking enthusiasts.
Donald Davidson - Profile of local musician.
Big Cat Sightings in Aberdeenshire - Record of local close encounters.
Graham J Brown & Partners - Tax and accounting services for the sole trader and the self-employed. Includes overview of services offered and contact details.
Xsite - Web site creation and design for local area and beyond.
Ballater Business Association - Details of local businesses.
Davidsons Chemists - Details of delivery service, veterinary supplies, achievements, historical notes and pictures.
dp opticians - Optical services available and contact information.
Gentle Leadership - Offers to inspire personal and organisational achievement through coaching, teambuilding and facilitation.
Lupus Engineering - Design and analysis consultancy services for the offshore and related industries.
Ballater Post Office - Includes opening hours, services provided and contact details.
Larks Gallery - Selection of work from leading Scottish artists, emerging talents in painting, print making, sculpture, ceramics, glass, textiles, photography and jewellery design.
Cybernaut - Deeside's first internet cafe. Offers satellite broadband and LAN gaming.
Edward J. Emslie - Local house furnisher and floorcovering specialist. Includes services offered and contact details.
Dee Valley Confectioners - Manufacturers of traditional hand-made sweets, boilings, fudge, tablet and macaroons. Includes a history link and information on items produced.
The Skipper's Wife - Supplier of fresh fish to villages on Royal Deeside. Includes routes, times and venues served.
Deeside Diaries - A community noticeboard for residents and visitors to Royal Deeside, Scotland.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Ballater Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Ballater "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Ballater It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Ballater How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ballater A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ballater Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Ballater The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Ballater Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Ballater "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Ballater "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Ballater Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Ballater Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Ballater Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ballater I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Ballater Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Ballater Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Ballater "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Ballater 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 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 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Ballater I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Ballater "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) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ballater 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ballater
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