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Welcome To My Homeland - Elizabeth Tolson's personal view of Scotland with stories, songs and photographs.
Blantyre and North Hamilton SIP - Social Inclusion Partnership for Blantyre and North Hamilton
Douglas Water - Listing history, pictures, guestbook and contact address for this small Lanarkshire village.
Hamilton Folk Club - Live sessions and concerts every second Sunday. Located in the Montrose Bar, Hamilton
Rosebank Whisky Tasters - Details of the society and their annual whisky tasting competition in the village.
Author Helen McLullich - Author of many school text books such as the Reading 2000 series, as well as Lest We Forget a text book relating to World War Two.
Carluke Camera Club - Details of activities, membership fees, contacts and gallery of photographs by members.
Light Up Glassford - Includes information on the Church and events that occur in the community.
East Kilbride Scottish National Party (SNP) - The East Kilbride and Strathaven branch of the Scottish National Party, includes information on local councillors and MSP.
Crawford & Crawfordjohn Parishes - A collection of articles and images illustrating the history of these two upland parishes. Photographs, postcards and genealogy services are also included.
Carnwath - The village of Carnwath, its landmarks, and their history.
Carstairs Village - Portraying the history and life of the village.
Leadhills - Local information and attractions in the Leadhills area of Scotland.
Rigside - Dedicated to the village, providing pictures, history and information.
The Forth - Provides history and information about the village and surrounding area. Photographs and local shop information is included.
Hamilton; A town with a past - A look at the many hidden sites of Hamilton, Scotland and its surrounding area.
Cambuslang Britannia Flute Band - Band history and information for members.
Dalserf Parish Church - Homepage for Dalserf Parish Church, which includes the churches of Dalserf Parish Church and Rorison Church, Ashgill. Details of current church activities and organisations and the long history of the church which was built in 1655.
Stonelaw Church - Information about the Pastor and staff, activities and organisation. Contact details.
Saint John Ogilve's - Catholic church in High Blantyre. Mass times and contact details within the weekly bulletin, information about the Cell movement including the magazine, RCIA and information on parish pilgrimages.
Our Lady of Lourdes Church - Schedule of services, online weekly bulletin, information on parish groups. Sponsors a parochial primary school.
St Patrick's Parish, Strathaven - This Catholic parish comprises the districts of Strathaven, Stonehouse and Glassford.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry 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 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius 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 Society and Culture I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Society and Culture Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Society and Culture A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Society and Culture
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