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Scottish Radiance - A monthly news letter from the Isles.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Council. An overview of what the Western Isles is like as a place to live and as a place to work. Bilingual Site in English and Gaelic.
Bethesda Hospice - A new provision for the Western Isles of Scotland, hospice and voluntary Nursing Home for the 30,000 scattered islanders. Patients receive sympathetic care in a home-like environment
Outerhebyouth - Information site for young people in the locality, giving advice and information on all subjects like, health, law, education, career, general advice, sport, music.
Western Isles Tourist Board - Official tourism for these Islands, also known as the Outer Hebrides. Contains information for planning a holiday in this part of Europe.
Visit Hebrides - Offering everything you ever wanted to know about visiting the Hebrides. Listing geographical, accommodation, travel and event information.
Harris Tweed Shop - Select from as range of traditional tweeds, hand woven on Harris and Lewis made into jackets, trousers and suits.
Scalpay Linen - Hand weavers of linen, hand spinners of wool, flax and other fibres, natural dyeing and spinning courses with accommodation provided.
Harris Tweed - Tweed which has been hand woven by the islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides, finished in the islands of Harris, Lewis, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Barra and their several purtenances (The Outer Hebrides) and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Barra - The community on line with latest news, tourist guide, history of Barra, Gaelic lessons.
Hebridessence - Perfume and cologne, in various packaging options, from the Isle of Barra. Providing product and Company information together with contact details.
Anderson, MacArthur and Co - Solicitors, notaries and estate agents for the locality including Lewis, Harris, Uist and Benbecula.
Sea Kayak Expeditions to St Kilda - Proposed supported expedition. Listing route details, costs, information and associated links.
The Hebrides - Tourist and information guide to the Scottish Hebrides Islands.
St Kilda - Free email publication providing a source of information and pictures for all friends of the islands as well as those interested in all things pertaining to these islands.
Benbecula History Society - Comunn Eachdraidh Bheinn na Faoghla. History and news from the Hebridean island of Benbecula.
Western Isles Travel Pictures - Travel pictures of the area, grouped by location with order form purchasing.
Island Diary - Tales of Island life by Janet Wood.
St Kilda - National Trust for Scotland World Heritage Site. Cataloging its history and future; providing information about it management and listing other interesting aspects and questions.
Martin Collins - Nature and landscape photographs of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Western Isles Guide - Community, tourist, and business information for the Hebridean Isles of Scotland. Includes sections on history, archaeology, biology, social sciences.
Western Isles Youth Advice - Information for young people (14-25). Includes telephone and email help lines, drop in clinics throughout the islands.
Calum MacDonald MP - Local representative in the United Kingdom Parliament. Lists biography and parliamentry reports.
SAORSA - Personal view about Eriskay and the Outer Hebrides with notes of voyages around the West Coast and the author.
Western Isles Women's Aid - Charitable organisation offering help and support for all women living in the area. Information on domestic abuse, benefits, refuge, children's clothes exchange is included.
North Tolsta Historical Society - Reflections on village life in Tolsta both past and present. Gallery, family and emigrant details included.
The Isle of Scalpay - Information on the Island including clickable maps and business section.
Western Isles Auquaculture Association - Represents the interests of the islands' newly established fish farming industry. Contact details.
Uist On Line - Uist based news, sports, what's on, tourist information, local services, businesses, shopping, travel, accommodation and education pages.
Western Isles Libraries - Explains opening hours, charges, Mobile Libraries and Gaelic Collection.
Fladda Island - A brief history of this small island, its lighthouse and community. Personal memories of a couple that lived there for the summer of 2003.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Western Isles You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Western Isles If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Western Isles "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Western Isles Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Western Isles "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Western Isles When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Western Isles "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Western Isles Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Western Isles "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Western Isles "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Western Isles "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Western Isles If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Western Isles Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Western Isles Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Western Isles "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce 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 Western Isles Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Western Isles "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Western Isles Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Western Isles If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Western Isles I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Western Isles It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Western Isles
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