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Stranraer and District Electronic Community - Community electronic newspaper for news, local events, entertainment, sport and leisure.
Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway - Guide to accommodation, business, history and tourism.
Fernlea Guest House - Accommodation, situated just a short stroll from Stranraer town centre and ferry terminals.
Lagganmore Hotel and Golf Club - Offering golf breaks, 18-hole course, accommodation. Packages for weddings, functions and conferences.
The Galloway Fleece Company - Specialising in the manufacture of fleeces both thick and custom made.
Hereford Prime Beef - Farm producing quality beef and delivering direct to the consumer.
Dunragit Kennel Systems - Supplier of dog trailers, kennel systems and equipment.
South West Plant Limited - Plant hire company offering sales, hire and repairs of construction, forestry, home and garden equipment.
Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press - Contains circulation, advertising and editorial information.
George Hotel - Details of the facilities, location and history. Murder mystery, Bridge and Painting weekends. Contact information provided.
Balyett Bed and Breakfast - Scottish Tourist Board approved accommodation. Details include facilities, attractions, prices and contact information.
Castle Kennedy - Horse driving trials and country show. Details about the event along with entry forms.
Stranraer and District Local History Trust - Publishing books about local and family history relevant to Wigtownshire.
Stranraer Golf Club - The last course designed by the highly esteemed James Braid. 6308 yard parkland course.
Kiddijoy Baby Shoes - Suppliers of personalised shoes featuring baby's name. Includes examples, prices and ordering information.
Colfin Smokehouse - Offering a range of smoked produce. Includes prices, directions and contact information.
Stranraer Museum - Facts about the museum, lists events and upto date information.
Stranraer Divers - Club information, trips, wrecks and advice.
The Coachman's - Traditional style pub with in-house nightclub and function suite available for public and private parties.
Cards and Prints - Landscape painting prints of specially selected views in South West Scotland.
Chamber of Commerce - Support for local business. Provides members with an information resource, public platform and contact information.
North West Castle Hotel - Caters for luxury weekend breaks. Curling rink which may be used by guests.
Queens Hotel - The most southerly hotel in Scotland, situated in a quiet village and offering peaceful breaks.
Spoutwells Farm Holiday Cottages - Two self catering cottages on working farm. Open all year round.
Wig Bay Holiday Park - Includes details of the facilities and attractions along with contact information.
The Millenium Centre - A venue for large or small functions, has facilities for the disabled. The Centre is a registered Scottish Charity.
Veterinary Surgery - Specialising in both large and companion animal work.
Carringtons World Of Furniture - Supplier of fabric and leather suites, traditional and modern furniture. Delivery within the UK and certain other areas of the world.
Hartforth Guesthouse - 18th century Townhouse, offering five bedrooms and traditional Scottish cooking.
Computer Repairs and Recycling - Specialising in custom builds, repairs, upgrades and recycling old systems.
McAndrew & Company - Estate Agency and Conveyancing.
The Ship Inn, Drummore - Dining room, accommodation and bar meals are available. Anglers welcome, open all year.
The Lochann Inn - Traditional country inn, open all year. Golfers and Anglers welcome.
The Waterloo Art Gallery - Exhibiting and selling artwork from professional Scottish artists. Provides gallery and artist information together with examples of their work. Details of the picture framing workshop and specialist local calendars is also included.
Dumfries & Galloway - Portal site for the region. Contains business, commercial, accommodation and travel information together with links to historical, community and political pages.
Belmont Nursing Home - A caring environment for the elderly. Qualified staff and a welcoming atmosphere. Full details provided.
The Plantings Inn - A family friendly Country Inn where families are welcome. Accommodation consisting of 3 single and 4 twin/double rooms. Catering for weddings and functions.
The Stranraer Show - Entertainment includes grand parade of prize-winning livestock, children's entertainer, sheep dog trialling display, pipe band, craft fair and over 80 trade stands.
Caledonia Matting International Limited - Professional entrance matting and floor matting material, specifically designed to meet the demands of high volume trafficked areas.
Ian Burrett Charter Hire - Operating out of the Mull of Galloway, three Orkney Fastliners for Tope and Pollack fishing in Luce Bay and the Irish Sea.
Sands of Luce Holiday Park - Offers rental, touring pitches and holiday home ownership beside Luce Bay. Modern amenities, lounge bar, children's play areas. Boat launching direct from beach.
Baxters of Stranraer & Gallery34 - Two premises, displaying art and crafts, lamps, glassware, prints, picture framing, candles and jewellery.
Blackpark Shotblasting - Shotblasting, (mobile shotblasting available) welding, engineering and fabrication work, marine work. Self hire shotblasting available. Installers of heat shrink joint protection. Security and decorative gates also constructed.
Fernlea Guest House - Three star Scottish Tourist Board property. Non-smoking, with all rooms en-suite. Private parking.
Ivy House - Bed and breakfast facilities in the town center. Ideal for the one stop traveler or holiday maker. Close to the ferry ports.
Glenwhan Gardens, Dunragit . - 12 acre garden open to the public. Parking, licensed tearoom, exotics, rare and unusal plants in a garden built over 20 years. RHS Rododendron & Magnolia Group member.
Braeside Cottage - Two bedroom self catering holiday cottage, ideally situated for golfing, fishing, waking, visiting local gardens and attractions.
Lakeview Guest House - 2 Star Scottish Tourist Board accommodation with seafront location. En-Suite rooms offering views overlooking Lochryan and Irish ferries. Within walking distance of ferry port, off road parking.
Aird Donald Caravan Park - Family run site located at Stranraer.
Galloway Garden Festival 2005 - To be held May 21st & 22nd, 2005, at Lochinch Castle, south west Scotland. Exhibitors, catering and displays.
Galloway Golf Classic 2004 - Golf tournament - perfect for a golfing holiday or golf vacation - four scottish golf courses over four days.
Challoch Bed & Breakfast - Country house near Sandhead. En-suite, parking, comfortable,log fires, views of Ireland, close to beaches, golf and Kirkmadrine Stones. Open all year except Christmas.
Linedancing - Keep fit, make friends, exercise to music from the 50's through to the top 20, for all ages and all levels. Visitors made very welcome.
Yoga, Qigong, Stress Management . - Offering personal health and stress management across southwest Scotland from Ayrshire to Dumfriesshire. Includes Yoga, Qigong and Personal Development for individuals and groups.
The Tigh Na Mara Hotel, Sandhead. - Refurbished small hotel on shores of Luce Bay. Seven en-suite rooms, plus twin cottage bedrooms. Parking, restaurant, bars, function suite. New management for 2004.
Stranraer Cancer Drop In Centre Association - Providing a confidential service to those living with cancer, their families and carers.
Barnhills Farmhouse - This bed and breakfast is situated on a working farm in South West Scotland. The perfect place to get away and relax.
Clachan Bed & Breakfast Accommodation - Situated in the heart of the countryside, shooting parties welcome. Relaxing holidays with home cooking a speciality, full Scottish breakfast is inclusive and a range of evening meals can also be provided on request.
The Thistle Inn - Chalet-style bed and breakfast accommodation close to the ferry port to Ireland. Disabled accommodation available.
Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Stranraer "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Stranraer Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Stranraer How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils "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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Stranraer It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Stranraer Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Stranraer Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Stranraer The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Stranraer 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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Stranraer Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Stranraer Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Stranraer "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Stranraer Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Stranraer For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Stranraer "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Stranraer When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Stranraer "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Stranraer Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Stranraer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Stranraer Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Stranraer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Stranraer Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Stranraer
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