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Climbing the Munros - Search, rank and record climbing and walking routes across the Munros, Scotlands highest mountains.
Institute of Advanced Motorists - Scottish Groups Association - Represents the voluntary groups around Scotland who can assist drivers reach the standard required to pass the Advanced Driving Test for cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles and passenger carrying mini buses and coaches.
Scottish Athletics Federation - Governing body for athletics in Scotland. Information on all aspects of Scottish athletics, running coaching track and field.
Shandon Country Pursuits - Country Pursuits such as off road driving, clay target shooting, quad biking, archery and fishing at Shandon Country Pursuits.
Scottish Sporting Festival - Scottish Racing has got together with some of Scotland's leading sporting institutions to create a special Sporting. Horse racing, Rugby at Murrayfield and Game Fair at Scone.
Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society - Providing information about allotments including legal issues, news and general information.
Scottish Petanque Association - Listing local Clubs with clickable map; officials, rules, membership forms and 2002 Challenge information included.
The Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society - Safeguards public access throughout Scotland. Provides information and support to walkers and other land users.
BBC Sport Scotland - Bringing you the best of Scottish sport at BBC online.
Gateway to Scottish Sports - Listing nearly every Governing Body of Sport in Scotland. Service provided by the Scottish Sports Association
Scot-Trek - Enjoy the splendour of Scotland's scenery with experienced walking guides. Caters for beginners to advanced walkers. Courses also available throughout the year.
Temple Institute of Martial Arts - Online magazine, events guide and library.
Go Golf World - Golf Videos of top Scottish golf courses in the Country. Golfing vacation information also included.
FirstPoint - Glasgow based company offering an information resource for sports scholarships to American universities.
The Scottish Beekeepers' Association - Representative body listing information on services and publications, learning beecraft, technical data. Membership details and discussion forum.
The Wildlife Web - An interactive site with news pages, maps, what to see, photographs, how to see it, latest sightings, and tips for travellers. also offers a low-cost guide service.
Glenafton Exotics and Persians - Breeders of exotic shorthair and Persian cats. Mainly bi-colour.
Scottish Sport - Practical information and advice for people who simply want to get out and participate in sport.
British Horse Society Scotland - Scottish equestrian charity, active in the fields of safety, access, training, and welfare.
Sportscotland - Leads the development of sport and physical recreation in Scotland. They aim to make sport more widely available to everyone, to nurture Scottish sporting talent and to sustain world class performances.(Formerly the Scottish Sports Council)
BBC Scotland Sportsound - Listen to every Scottish Premier League match through these web pages.
Snowboard Scotland - An independent guide to Scottish snowboarding. Providing resort reports and information, weather and travel links and other useful details.
Scottish Lacrosse Association - Clubs listing, fixtures and events for men's and women's lacrosse.
Scottish Ice Skating Association - Official association for ice skating in Scotland. Provides membership details and benefits, competition details and their latest news.
Spice Scotland East - Adventure club for ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things. Lists event, news and FAQs.
MAG Scotland - Central resource for finding topics related to motorcycling and scootering. Clubs, dealers, events, and biker friendly places to stay.
Scottish Sports - Provided by the Scotsman newspaper. Listing related sports news including football, golf, rugby and motorsport.
Scottish Institute of Sport - Having a clear focus on high performance sport. Provides individual programs and services for top athletes.
Arashi-kan Shotokan Karate Club - A traditional JKA club. Chief instructor, Mikio Yahara sensei. Club, and some Shotokan training information.
Scottish Kit Car Club - Details of monthly meetings, summer runs and regalia. Contact details.
Scottish Cycling Development Project - Aims to raise the profile of cycling in Scotland by encouraging cycle use as a positive and acceptable lifestyle option, and by promoting the health, environmental and practical benefits of cycling. The project provides advice and information on all aspects of cycle use.
The Munro Society - Organization for people have completed climbing Munros who want to give something back to the mountains and meet fellow mountaineers.
Scottish Croquet Association - Organises competitions and coaching for its individual members and nine affiliated clubs. Whether you're new to the game or new to Scotland, whether you're looking for your nearest club or for a competition that coincides with a short visit, this site has the information you need.
Ettrick & Lauderdale Sports Council - Represents regional clubs and organisations. Information on capital and revenue grant schemes.
Glasgow and West of Scotland MRC - Model railway club providing information on the organisation, membership, activities and layouts.
Ayrshire Area Scouts - Information about local districts, plus events and photos.
The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire "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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Recreation and Sports "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) 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 Recreation and Sports I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Recreation and Sports "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Recreation and Sports It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Recreation and Sports There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Recreation and Sports The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Recreation and Sports Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Recreation and Sports There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Recreation and Sports "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous 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 Recreation and Sports The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Recreation and Sports Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Recreation and Sports 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 only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Recreation and Sports I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "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 A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Recreation and Sports You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports
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