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Dumfries and Galloway - Guide and directory for the area. Provides links to commercial and leisure businesses and facilities. Travel and accommodation links are also included
Dumfries and Galloway Council - Public access to Local Government information for the locality.
Youth Strategy Executive Group - Promoting the views and opinions of young people in the area.
Solway Heritage - Works to conserve, interpret and promote the natural, built and cultural heritage. Includes case studies.
Village Folk Community - Community information about the towns and villages, the people and businesses, in the area.
Network West - For women in business, and all women looking for a place to gather: free resources, business, sales and marketing tips, home business ideas, an online community for women.
Dumfries Conservative Association - Includes a newsletter, discussion forum, information about Tory councillors and general elections.
Dumfries and Galloway Health - Official NHS website containing details of all healthcare services provided across the area with links to individual organisations websites.
Peter Duncan MP - Information on the Conservative party member of parliament for the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.
Daleside Equestrian - Provides accommodation for horses, riding lessons, bed and breakfast, part or full livery, point shows and competition, and a full range of facilities including arena hire.
Scotland Online - Weather forecasts for one day and five days ahead.
History of Buittle Parish - Listing the history and genealogy of Buittle Parish and Palnackie. Provides census information, parish records and valuation rolls.
South West Environmental Action Project - Dedicated to involving local people in the enhancement of the environment of the locality. Provides news, group and contact details.
Cook, Greive and Robb Families - Originating from Ireland and Kirkmaiden in Wigtownshire and formally living in Howden in Selkirshire. Provides genealogy information about the families.
Sorbie Village Regeneration Group - Details of projects, activities and a brief village history.
The Holy Island Project - The Centre for Peace and Health offers retreats, courses and short stays for people of all faiths and traditions. Lama Yeshe Losal, the Abbot of Kagyu Samye Ling, is the Executive Director of The Holy Island Project.
Dumfries and Galloway Orchard Network - Fruit growing and eating information for the locality. Includes forum, fact sheets, suppliers, and links.
Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall 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. Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Dumfries and Galloway Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Dumfries and Galloway Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Dumfries and Galloway You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Dumfries and Galloway The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Dumfries and Galloway It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Dumfries and Galloway I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Dumfries and Galloway There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Dumfries and Galloway I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Dumfries and Galloway Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Dumfries and Galloway Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "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, We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Dumfries and Galloway Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Dumfries and Galloway 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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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 Dumfries and Galloway Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Dumfries and Galloway "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Dumfries and Galloway Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Dumfries and Galloway Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Dumfries and Galloway blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dumfries and Galloway Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Dumfries and Galloway People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Dumfries and Galloway The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Dumfries and Galloway Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Dumfries and Galloway
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