Blue Tooner

Fantastic Alex, great news. I'm absolutely over the moon for you m8. I'm sure Arthur will be bragging about you already ;)

Got to agree Jim, Bob is a maestro

Fantastic result for you Ted, well done

The earliest doos are in at 11.23am after a 10am lib at 99 miles How did your fed get on from Alnwick Stevie?

Yep it certainly helps, the last time I had a toss like that the birds won every young bird race except for the first one and also won 14th and 33rd open in the y/b national at 386 miles so I think your right they do learn from a bad toss although it's no good at the time for the fancier

Great race, birds tumbled in 51/52 for me, I had 2/3rds of them within 10 mins of first ones vels will be over 2000ypm

Absolutely correct other than hitting the base station with a hammer ;D ;D

I used you a few times and found your service first class so if you did start again I would certainly use you, good luck

54/54 from Brechin 62 miles

Apology accepted Pete, no hard feelings Stuart

Having never got involved in anything controversial that has been posted on this forum, I now find myself being lambasted by a member for posting a thread which was meant as a bit of humour. I joined this forum to learn, make friends with other fanciers and have a bit of banter and that's all, no hidden agendas here. I don't need the hassle. I would appreciate if one of the moderators could remove me from the members list asap. Stuart Maskame

Give it a rest, are you just trying to get up to the 500 post mark ;D ;D ;D

No probs, it's just really gets me that someone can turn a light hearted thread into a slagging match which I am not going to say any more about :X cheers van reets

Surprised you haven't a sore back m8, with the huge chip your carrying around on your shoulder, get a grip and see the funny side for goodness sake or should I say for Petes sake

What a racket they were making screeching at one another as they were fighting. That's twice in a week they have been over my loft, Irvine has had them in amongst his y/bs 3 days on the trot last week.

I thought that's what you did anyway Alan ;D ;D ;D

2 Peregrines were harassing my y/bs last night and as I was clapping my hands and shouting at the top of my voice I somehow managed to put my back out, took me three hours of trying to get out of bed this morning and 20 mins to crawl through to the kitchen, using a chair as a zimmer to get about :o > these feckers have a lot to answer for > > luckily they didn't attack the y/bs and were actually grappling with one another, wondered if one of the percy's had strayed into the others territory :-/

I had 51/53 by 6.30pm last night, but the birds were very jumpy on arrival, flying round the loft for anything from 5 mins to 15 mins attempting to land then chickening out of it and up for a few more laps. The first batch I seen was at 3.07pm around 30-40 coming out of the south west, got one out of that batch, but it flew around for 5 mins and was very nervous :-/. Most of my birds had had a good soaking. It started raining heavily at 14.30 and had been drizzly up to that time on and off all day. I see the doos are in Elgin at 14.40 so possibly they went up the middle keeping to the west side of the weather. My later birds all came out of the North West. Possibly could have been BOP amongst them though as Black W/F says.

Doomaloons done a runner I think so I will tell the story. Doomaloon and Raymond Birnie were injecting some latebreds , as they were doing this they were releasing each bird outside the loft. When they finished they looked up and saw the birds circling round a sparrowhawk, the next thing they saw was a peregrine diving at the batch. The youngbirds scattered in all directions with the peregrine focusing on a red cheq. It hit the red cheq above the loft, knocking it into the next garden. Percy then rose to watch proceedings from above as Doomaloon tried to get over the wall to find his doo, just as he climbed onto the wall, the red cheq flew up onto the wall with half his tail missing and blood pouring from a wound in his side, the next thing a cat jumped up and grabbed the poor red cheq but all was not lost as doomaloons jack Russell pounced on the cat which then released the red cheq which then flew back into the loft and not surprisingly has been named Lucky. Incredible or what????

That's shocking news, if there is going to be a sale to help, put us down for a pair of 2010 y/bs.

Would go along with that, never say die doos

Wanted, dead or alive, Doomaloon, 5'10" and aboot the same in breadth with Rosie cheeks (possibly cos of the whisky :-/) Extremely dangerous, do not approach if seen Report to webmaster :X

We're quite slack just now George, maybe I'll do a homer or 2 :X

Sandy where are you?

Are your clocks managed by the unikon software or eastcoast software? The reason I ask is because I had the same problem last year as you describe. We are on eastcoast software so I emailed them and explained the problem. They asked me to send all the data in a zipfile for them to look at and it turned out that a blank ets ring was causing the problem which they corrected and we haven't had any problems since. How they corrected it I have no idea.