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Colquhonnie Hotel - Former Victorian shooting lodge on outskirts of village offering, fishing, conferences and teambuilding in Grampian.
Discover Donside - General information including local history, natural interests, outdoor activities and accommodation.
Strathdon - A fertile strath leading into the wild and rugged scenery of the Highlands.
Destinations Scotland - General local information including accommodation and car hire.
Strathdon School - Includes aims, ethos and details of pupils.
The 1841 Census for Strathdon - Census of the Parish and relevant parts of the Parish of Tarland & Migvie
Corgarff and Strathdon War Memorials - Details and pictures remembering those living locally who lost their lives.
Katherine Hardie Designs - Handmade jewellery made to individual specifications.
Candacraig Weddings - Wedding co-ordinators. Includes details of available services, venues, and gifts.
Upper Donside Parish - Offers pictures, a 'Message From The Manse', a weekly thought, available services and contact details.
The McHardy Family of Corryhoul - Genealogical information about an Aberdeenshire family with links to the Corgarff District.
Glen Nochty - Part of the Parish of Strathdon. History notes for period prior to 1850.
Strathdon Vital Records - Details of births, deaths and marriages within the local area.
Jenny's Bothy Crofthouse - Self catering accommodation in the foothills of the Cairngorms. Pictures and contact information.
Ian Downie's Site - Family history, tracing the family name in Scotland and United States of America.
Allargue Arms Hotel - Details of highland breaks, skiing, golf, trekking, shooting, walking, fishing and bird watching. Prices and availability.
The Glenkindie Arms Hotel - Pictures of accommodation, booking information and availability. Menu and contact details.
Clashnettie Arts Centre - Offers short lets and courses to painters, actors and musicians in search of a unique working location.
The Lonach Hall - Historical facts and details of the buildings recent refurbishment. Links include facilities, location, weddings and bookings.
Lonach Highland and Friendly Society - Historical notes and information including details of the Lonach Highland Games.
Easter Knocklea - Three bedroom architecturally renovated home with views over the Don valley for sale by owner.
Michie Family Genealogy - Family tree, includes links with the Highlands of Scotland, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Cairngorms National Park Authority - Interim website of the newly formed Authority.
The Garden House - Self catering accommodation. Contact and booking details.
Big Cat Sightings in Aberdeenshire - Record of local close encounters.
No. 3 Candacraig Square - Bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes local history, pictures and booking details.
Lumsden Village - Includes village history, historical picture gallery and amenities link.
Scottish Sculpture Workshop - A visual art organisation providing self-catering residential and extensive sculpture facilities for artists.
Lumsden War Memorial - Dedicated to the men of Auchindoir Parish in Aberdeenshire who died in the wars.
Towie War Memorial - Dedicated to the men of Towie Parish in Aberdeenshire who died in the wars.
OFARS - Society involved in archaeology and history of North East Scotland, carrying out excavations, presentations and lectures.
Treasures of Britain, Lonach Highland Games and Gathering - Personal travel experiences from descendants of the Forbes Clan. Includes photographs and extensive notes on local history.
Lecht - Skiing, snowboarding, piste map, photographs, and prices. Close to Strathdon.
The Lost Gallery - Scottish contemporary art. Includes examples of paintings, sculpture, photography and details of exhibitions.
Corgarff Castle - Includes historical notes, castle plan and pictures.
I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Strathdon "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Strathdon If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Strathdon "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Strathdon I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Strathdon "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strathdon Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I 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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Strathdon 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) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strathdon Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Strathdon Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Strathdon "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Strathdon Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton 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 Strathdon Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Strathdon "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Strathdon I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Strathdon "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Strathdon Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Strathdon When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Strathdon "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Strathdon The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Strathdon "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Strathdon "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Strathdon
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