Henrik

Best estimate Danny is only about 1/3 of the rings issued are ever raced, if all were raced there aint a Fed in Scotland that would have enough room so time for you to Sit Doon and stop scaremongering

So you are gonna have 5 Kelsos at say 60mls then jump them to Stafford at around 220mls, your doos will have a nosebleed even thinking about that distance Danny

Aye Peter we were aware, its on every year and hasnt affected returns in the past. Wont ever have an answer to it tho, some have good returns others have horrendous returns.

Would Kelso no be a bit far for your doos Danny and as for Stafford you would need to work out when the hours of darkness would be and what time to control your clock.

19.301 according to that map

Hopefully clear up then Jamie fingers crossed

Well its bee raining all night here so not holding out much hope, unless it goes off soon. Still 6 short

Just got another so 14/20 now

Only had 4/20 at clocks from Alnwick, now up to 13, hopefully some more work in,but not holding my breath

Pentland Hills & East of Scotland up at 08.10 in a light south wind from Alnwick

Sending 20, keep some at home, they,ve only had 2 5ml tosses, oh and a wee fly thru to Glasgow n back hehe, dont see the rain till around 3pm here like but could be a bit misty at Alnwick early doors.

Aye agreed Del, but gets my blood up when folk talk about joining up who no nothing about the depth of hurt there still is here, enough said lets get back to the topic, I would like to see 2 committee members from Lanarkshire, Big Gareth and either John Quinn again or yourself Derek.

Danny you lot are fine in the Lanarkshire, you never lost anything as the majority were sticking with the SHU, we had a meeting and while we were at the meetin they had others steal all our stuff from the HQ tried everything to get it back apart from spending 10k or so the go to court, even tried to egt the RPRA Pres Blacklock to help us but he wasnt interested, he was getting more votes to get elected, I have a pile of letters 6 inches deep between him and me. And if Jim O,Hara had his way at the National AGM that year when he let the suspended members sit and vote I would probably be breeding peregrines and releasing them around, Dunbar Co,Path and Tranent instead of keeping pigeons. These so called men should have been put out the sport for good instead of which they are still racing and winning with the Suspended National Racing Pigeon Club. So really dont need you or anyone else saying we should let bygones be bygones cos its just no gonna happen.

Aye and if you think Im going to just forget about the theft of my money and transporter and just roll over and get my belly rubbed you have another think coming, you obviously were not involved in the split and didnt get left with even as much as a rubber ring. As long as my butt hole points down I,ll never sit at a table with these men.

Billy told me he moved because the weather is better through here, and also to try and win a National. I would like a rule put in place that if you dont read the information sheet, you dont get to send

Derek 2000 n 2001 didnt send to the Gold Cup as I dont drive and Bathgate is three buses, and if it goes back to that then I wont be going, simples, the security thing is fine as it is, Lorries are sealed, but then again is anything ever really secure, its only as secure as the folk who a running it, so maybe that part could be addressed by changing the whole committee, convoyers, markers and every body else, but then you are still left wit the same problems with the next lot.

Del the racing no even started n the silly season has begun, Central marking would drive members away, and where is central, somewhere in Lanarkshire I suppose, as Ive heard the AGM may be loaded with Lanarshire members desperate to go on the committee as it was last year. Breaking point I dont think so, the wind will dictate where the doos come from also if you train them to fly from the east training from Dunbar etc they will always dogleg. Hand picked workers?, see the doctor as your pills aint strong enough, all they want to do is stand and blether, and the better the doo man the louder they talk. And we,ll get John McCord as our transport manager, hes got a haulage company and know the business inside out. Oh and if you can manage to stop the shei te coming out of Danny,s mouth then I,ll propose you for President.

That will no be happening as there are 4 members of the SNRPC who will never fly a bird with the SNFC until such time as they get there suspensions lifted by going in front of the SHU.

You could have Maidstone instead of Newbury, Ypres where Maidstone is, Le Mans, Tours, Clermont with no duplications, Either in the National, or in the dookit

Would be handy if you could let the fanciers who live next to where you liberate know when these Federation training tosses are happening so we can keep our ybs in, had mine out and they,ve been coming back in dribs and drabs all day.

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Birds up 6.00am light North West wind, good luck

Sec B has 317 which is 32 more than last year think there are around 1600 total

And I,m having a right old laugh at the last post as well, cos when the MNFC got there first Geraldy they had it sitting on the Prom in Blackpool in January for anyone to go look at and it did have three sides with water and also grills to keep the burds away from the droppings. As for the vet report, Im sure Rab was standing with a gun to his head telling him what to write, maybe he d be interested to read your post and get his take on that. End of the day everyone has their opinions and ideas, but as I,ve said before, wont be my problem next year and if whatever the new committee decides doesnt suit then I,ll do as I always do and keep them at home