Geraint Parry

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Fair play to you Stuart you do your fair share for the sport - ooops sorry 'Hobby' of yours! Keep up the good work. would just like to add German fanciers are some of the best I have had the pleasure of meeting around Europe, I have made a lot of great German friends, And I wish them all the best in this new venture for them.

Welcome to the forum TAFF!

700 miles from San Sebastian, was a hard race so glad to see him come home!

Where is the loft based?

Have investigated this a bit further and it turns out this warning has been going around since 1998. good to keep and eye (or ear in this case!) out.

I think if you hold the CTRL key down when you load the page up, this will over ride the blocking of the site.

Source http://www.imakenews.com/spiritlink/e_article000674457.cfm?x=b11,0,w Re: 90# on your telephone warning messages Internet hoax? real threat? or e-mail mania? Has anyone else got this spam message below? It's called, Re: 90# on your telephone and is a warning about using the 90# on your home line (read it below). I got this e-mail message warning four times last week to put in RedWAY BC News. I appreciate everyone trying to inform me and therefore our readers, but I also get frustrated if sources aren't checked and if there isn't a clear answer to tell people. So, here's what I did to find out the truth to report to you, and the lessons I learned along the way: I always suggest to readers to check for validity, find a clear answer, identify a source, then share it with our readers. 1. Check to see if story is valid. First I called the "author", in this case it was a real lady from the RCMP, who is no longer there. Her replacement is dealing with 20 to 30 calls a day giving them the same message…"Yes, I've heard of the #90 warning. No, I'm not sure if that is true or not. Can you please call your telephone company to find out from them? I can't get a clear answer?" When I asked if she was frustrated by the surge in calls again, she said, yes, and shared with me that Vivian wishes she had never sent the warning out as it has taken so much time dealing with the calls. 2. Find a clear answer and a source So I called Telus directly. After navigating through their annoying voice mail operator,, then FOUR transfers and ONE lost call (after waiting for over two minutes in the elevator music hellroom, ironically), I finally connected to a wonderful woman named Melissa F. She didn't think it would work, but instead of leaving the answer uncertain, she picked up the ball and contacted her "Floor Coach", Stephanie. Between the two of them, they spoke with technicians and gave us this DEFINITIVE answer. Now as for the source of future questions and source of info, the service rep at Telus, Melissa, suggested that she'll forward our e-zine response to HER supervisors so THEY can educate all of their staff and save themselves time and resources, too. Yay, Melissa! 3. Share it in the e-zine so it can be searched easily by people on-line. Here's a summary of what I learned: 90# does not work for residential lines, it may work for business lines, and we've all got to wisen up around protecting our privacy before we blast everyone we know, and protect your rights as consumers. Lessons Learned 1. Your residential (home) phone line is not accessible to an outside source by using 90#. If you want someone to make calls through your home number, you need to apply for a calling card account and give them access that way. Pound 90 does NOT work for home (residential) numbers. 2. Your business phone line is may be accessible to an outside source by using 90#, but there are two key points: 1. It would be the phone company testing certain equipment they just installed 2. You would clearly know about the business lines, the new phone equipment and the fact they are working with you to test it. Sometimes, a business line may have equipment that they would be testing; so they may make arrangements directly with you, and you'd d know it's happening; you would be aware of it. 3. Get smart about prank calls to protect your privacy. The biggest suggestion the Telus team gave me is to get smart about prank callers. Take a few minutes to really as the caller questions, because if in fact it is a phone company calling you, they would already have access to your records on hand related to your phone services. For example, they'd know what kind of features you'd have (call waiting? call display? voice mail?) and know how many long distance calls you made last month, and could look up your most frequently called number. Ask them for specifics, because if it's somebody trying to fake it, they couldn't make up that info, and they couldn't trick you then! 4. Get smart before you forward e-mail messages to everyone you know. Instead of verifying a technical message like this with the RCMP or police or whomever it claims to come from, find a direct source of someone who knows the most about it….in this case, our phone provider. Just because you can type it and email it doesn't make it true!

lol, nice one give it a go, and report back to me

hmmm, why?? ever tried it? give it a go, all the feathers get drawn into the box, thus leaving your loft a little cleaner

when the birds are moulting , get a carboard box cut a hole in one side, place it in the loft, and all the feathers will gather in the box (this is correct i think as I haven't done this myself but have heard of others doing it!)

Considering this is headed 'Fancy & Show Pigeons' I think you will be ok posting them here

Been onto local MP, have had letter back from him, so at least that is another that is aware of the situation, all we can do is try. If you haven't already please sign the petition at the following web address, thanks http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PigeonRacing/

Think ive sorted it now Vic, altered last post, nothing taken out of post just all the +++++++++'s. Thanks

Happy Birthday aarden - Have a good un'

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jimbobboy - what I think he means is the people who opt to come onto the forum but click the invisible button, loom at the main forum page scroll down towrds the bottom and you will see the following. Forum Stats 37 Active Users (20 members; 4 bots; 12 guests; 1 invisible)Data taken from the past 15 minutes.

At the moment there are 456 sigs on the on-line petiton. Would be nice to get a few more but can't force anyone into anything

Was there much response at the show to this?

try http://www.postmehappy.com to send anything upto 30kg UK mainland. worth a look.

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Every fancier in the land starts as a novice, set yourself goals, don't be afraid to try something different. Take me this year for instance, with work comitments etc, i planned my season, going against the book so to speak, flying my pigeons completley different from everyone else. Started racing and at the end of the year I was top prize winner in the club, topped the fed and was in amongst the top 10 - 15 in the fed most weeks. Just because someone is winning doing one thing doesnt mean it will work for you. But the most important thing is to ENJOY YOUR BIRDS and think of getting a card / winning as a bonus. and in the end you will have your glory moment, and when you do milk it as much as you can, becuase with pigeon racing there are more downs than ups!!

It depends really. Sprint pigeons would race at top level until about 2 - 3 yrs old? Long distance pigeons will race well until 5 - 6 years old as theyhave a wise head. Best thing to do is to look at results, and look at the ring numbers of the winning birds. If you have a good racer but s/he is also breeding the goods, it may well be worth stopping them sort of birds from racing, as in the end even the best will 'go down' if you push them to hard. Just my opinions

You will find your own system which suits your way of life etc

Any BHW that come from your newsagents dont even come from Welshpool, they are printed in Norfolk somewhere. Your BHW onlycomes direct from Welshpool if you are a subscriber. As these are packed and sent out on a Wednesday from Welshpool.