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Technifix - Technifix, located near Tain, repairs and services industrial and domestic appliances.
The Small Plant Nursery - An interesting range of alpine and rock garden plants, unusual and old fashioned perennials.
Tain Golf Club - Course pictures and descriptions, a profile of the region and local attractions, fees, and other club facts.
Books In Order - Book-keeping company with details of the range of services and training available.
Royal Hotel - Includes accommodation information along with details of the facilities and local amenities.
Alasdair Rhind Funerals - Providing funeral services in Easter Ross and Sutherland.
Easter Ross Beekeepers' Association - They have an apiary in Tain. Information on membership and their activity programme. E-mail form to purchase their honey.
Arabella Travel - Travel and transport services company. Lists Company and location information, booking and contact details.
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Tain "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "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) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Tain your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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Chesterton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Tain "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Tain The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Tain "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." 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There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Tain "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Tain If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. 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