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Coldframe - The ongoing diary showing progress in the renovation of 40 acres of mixed arable, pasture and woodland along with a traditional croft house at Ardvannie, overlooking the Dornoch Firth in the North of Scotland.
Ross and Cromarty Enterprise - Growing business, developing people, strengthening communities. Based in Invergordon.
Ross-shire Online - News and links from around Ross-Shire.
The Plockton Web - Information on accommodation, eating out, activities and directions.
Dingwall Fencing Club - Practice times, contacts, competition results and a history of fencing overview; located in northern Scotland.
Black Isle Info - Community and business portal for the local area. Accommodation, events, attractions, arts, crafts, history and maps all feature.
Nigg Old Church - Providing information about this example of a Scottish parish church, which houses an 8th century Pictish stone.
Northern Sights - Photographs by David Kratz of Tain. Contains catalogue of photographs grouped by area. Clickable thumbnails with links to local websites are also included.
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "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) 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Ross and Cromarty "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Ross and Cromarty The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ross and Cromarty If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Ross and Cromarty You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Ross and Cromarty The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Ross and Cromarty "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Ross and Cromarty "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Ross and Cromarty Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Ross and Cromarty "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) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Ross and Cromarty Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Ross and Cromarty When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ross and Cromarty "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Ross and Cromarty The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Ross and Cromarty "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Ross and Cromarty "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Ross and Cromarty Man and wife make one fool. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery 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 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Ross and Cromarty It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Ross and Cromarty Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Ross and Cromarty They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Ross and Cromarty "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo 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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Ross and Cromarty Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ross and Cromarty
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