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Scapa Crafts - Jackie and Marlene Miller make traditional Orkney chairs which are unique to the Orkney Islands. You can visit their workshop and see them at work.
Pickaquoy Centre - Sports, arts and leisure centre. Offers everything from concerts, films and photographic facilities to all-weather sports pitches and conference facilities. Includes booking forms and event guide.
William Jolly - Traditionally cured fish, fresh from the Orkney Islands, buy online.
Ortak Scottish Jewellery - Designer, manufacturer, retailer and wholesaler of Scottish jewellery in gold, silver and pewter. The collections include Viking, Orkney, St Magnus and Celtic. Details of its visitor centre in Kirkwall.
Ola Gorie - A family-run company, producing original jewellery. The main collections are Heritage, Mackintosh, Laverock and Wildlife.
Skerryvore Practice - General medical practice (an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland).
Sheila Fleet Jewellery - Designer of silver and gold jewellery, with a gallery and shop. Or view the collections on-line and order by post or e-mail. Some of her designs are inspired by the Orkney landscape.
Drever and Heddle - Contains details of the property and legal services available.
Our Lady and Saint Joseph - Catholic parish. Mass times, contact details, newsletter parish history, Italian Chapel.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Kirkwall I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Kirkwall Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Kirkwall "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Kirkwall A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Kirkwall "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Kirkwall It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Kirkwall Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Kirkwall You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Kirkwall "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Kirkwall Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Kirkwall Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Kirkwall Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Kirkwall Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Kirkwall Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Kirkwall Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Kirkwall When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Kirkwall I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Kirkwall Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Kirkwall "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Kirkwall Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Kirkwall Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Kirkwall
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