WSF Surf School - Provides details of courses and fees, booking information and general club information.
North Wales Caving Club - Digs vary from careful re-opening and conservation of old mines through to discovering virgin cave, both locally and abroad.
Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue - Become a member or learn more about the activities of the organisation in Northern Snowdonia.
Parys Underground Group - Discover more about the history and under ground workings of the Parys and Mona copper mines. Explore the mine with a virtual tour.
North Wales Charity Ramblers - Organises a variety of sponsored events, including walks, cycle rides and horse rides.
Welsh Canoeing - Home of the Welsh Canoeing Association, the National White Water Centre; plus Welsh rafting, water information and river levels.
Offa's Dyke Association - Independent voluntary organisation which provides information and other services to walkers and seeks to promote and protect Offa's Dyke and the Offa's Dyke Path.
Welsh Surfing Federation - Governing body for surfing in Wales. It is responsible for promoting the sport by organising competitions and participation in other events to raise public awareness. The Federation also organises team selection for nationally represented competitions.
WalesLive - Guide to outdoor activities and information, primarily in northern counties.
Outdoor Photography and Walking in Wales - Jean Napier is a professional photographer and outdoor pursuits leader specialising in outdoor skills training and walking in Snowdonia.
North Wales Mountain Bike Association - A guide to the opportunities and places for mountain biking, and the legislation relating to access to the countryside.
Kite Country - Information about visiting Mid Wales, in order to see the Red Kite, and other wildlife, in their own natural environment.
Offa's Dyke Raiders Orienteering Club - Serves North-East Wales from Colwyn Bay to Llangollen. It is a small club, with approximately 50 members and tries to ensure that orienteering is available to its members at least once each month at an easily accessible venue.
Mid Wales Climbing - New routes in Meirionydd with history of mountain crag development by all climbers.
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Outdoors "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Outdoors
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Outdoors Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Outdoors
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Outdoors "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Outdoors
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Outdoors "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Outdoors
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Outdoors The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Outdoors
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Outdoors blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Outdoors
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 deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Outdoors And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Outdoors
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Outdoors Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Outdoors
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Outdoors I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Outdoors
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Outdoors Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Outdoors
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Outdoors Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Outdoors
