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why was this person not suspended for racing a bird not in his name has the rules changed thought this was always the case
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Father McGee driving home after Sunday service spots a small boy pouring something from a bottle into a bin which bursts into flames concerned for the boys safety he stops and shouts the lad over whats that you have in that bottle says the Priest its Acid Father says the boy thats very dangerous says the Priest i think you better give that to me no way says the boy its mine and im keeping it trying to get round the boy the Priest says tell you what ill swap you bottles whats in your bottle says the boy its Holly water says the Priest and what can that do says the boy what can it do says Priest angry that the boy does not know the power of Holly water why only yesterday i poured this on a woman and she past a child a thats nothing Father i poured this on a dogs ass and it passed a motorbike
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Happy Birthday Auld yin yer catching up
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14 now all great tosses all together weekend weather not looking good see how this aft noon looks ive been tossing between showers if i can see so can they as soon as the hills clear there off
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Walter Don’t know where the Peregrines are but According to the RSPB website they don’t migrate.
“ In the British Isles peregrines do not migrate, and the majority stay within 100 km of their birthplace, although some upland birds move to lower ground or the coast in winter. While the British and Irish populations mix, there is practically no exchange with continental birds. Some of the migratory Scandinavian birds winter in Britain “
Could it be because they are no big batches of pigeons coming up the valleys They are having to range further afield in search of food and leaving a clear corridor for your birds ?
i think they go to the coast m8 and David Attenborough says they migrate so the Rspb are taking p h there going somewhere
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i think most of them migrate when the birds stop coming through the hills in numbers kevin but a few that are hitting lofts and getting fed still hang around ive been training at this time about the second week in october for the past 6 to 8 years with great returns but been training all year down the 74 with great returns the bop are not stupid the majority now hunt in the east where most birds are racing and training they go where the food is maybe time to go back down the west for a few years but to many who have an advantage would rather get slaughtered and keep there advantage
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sorry to hear this Robert he was a real character was Harry may he Rip
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Is the West route a life lesson for future national racing Walter?
Given last few years west of Scotland federations have been flying more east of Central programme, does it stick with them when breaking for home from the Channel do you think.
I'm of the opinion a fit motivated pigeon will break and take most direct line regardless of schooling!?
dont have a problem so much with the old birds racing from the east as long as i have schooled them down the the west line as youngbirds and yes they will break m8 but pigeons are a flock species and with having to face a head wind on there own will stay with the batch as long as possible to the point of being well past and so get well beat jmo its happening in club and fed never mind national races the birds home from the north east and theres not many birds that will leave the batch and home alone but if you train yb from the east its the only way they know so thats the way they come
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had ten tosses over the last two weeks 5 from 20 mile 4 from 25 miles one from 30 miles no losses all down the west all birds home in one drop just getting ready to basket for no 11 ill keep them going as long as the weather is decent besides great experience for the latebreds and birds that have not been raced it gives me something to do and look forward to hope my luck keeps up
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That’s only my thoughts, at least it getting talked about, all proposals must be in by the end of the month
ill second that David
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Happy Birthday m8
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yes m8 me to it kills me coughing my guts out same when i put it in the baskets then in the car nightmare for me now use easybed
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im sure it was friday morning three days till the birds went to the gold cup i was on the computer and decided to check the forcast for france and Reims and it was showing an east wind forecast for the friday the day of the race a wee chance for a westsection pigeon to do something special i had given the birds the open bowl all week after there morning exercise they were all handling fantastic i would flag them one more time that night then open bowl till tuesday basketting i closed the loft up after i fed them at 7 oclock with the intention of flagging them from 9 till 10 one more time getting them used to landing in darkness just incase i got a late one then went into the house for a cup of tea and looked at the forecast again and it had changed this time showing southeast from Reims and across the channel and southeast from the coast right up the east of the country but was blowing southwest down the westside jesus i thought in theory the birds should come straight down the middle of the country the south section and the central belt has the advantage now they should come from the south right over crawford area if wind stays that way that is and my last five tosses had been from lauder in the east it was then i had a brain wave instead of flagging them tonight id take them to crawford i looked at the time it was 7 45 i ran out to the van and got my basket and took the 12 birds that i had left from the twenty two i started with to crawford letting them go at 8 45 no need to worry they will be no hawks about at this time i jumped in the van with the boot down to try and beat them when i got to the house my pal charlie muir was standing in the drive where you been training i said at this time said he i told him about my theory about the birds coming down the middle while we waited on the birds half past nine and nothing i was trying to stay calm but it was getting dark fast 9 40 two birds landed two cocks what have i done i thought they did not even need the toss it was only a wee head sharpener over 20 tosses and not lost a bird and i get hit at 8 45 at night i dont believe it 9 50 and its now dark bang a flutter of birds hit the loft two went in the section helen and marrion were from so at least they were home i had 8 home now with 4 missing well that did not go to plan charlie i said in fact that was f k g stupid but its done now if the rest are alive ill get them in the morning next morning crack of dawn 3 hit the loft with one missing a wee cheq pied hen a grandaughter of jenna bassa got one i thought the only pied among them i then sat and wrote out my pool sheets and bank check taking the few pounds off the wee pied and spreading it over some of the other less pooled birds i was lucky i had got off light that could easily been a disaster at one oclock that day the wee cheq pied hen turned up not a mark on her but it was to late to change the pool sheets again without making a mess of them so the wee pied stayed home and i sent 11 to the race on the tuesday i knew the birds were in good order and there were a few comments made from the handlers which is always nice but with a pigeon like helen in the basket i was feeling confident although i dont mind telling you when Dal tipped me as a favoriet on basics to win the national i felt a lot of pressure for the first time in my life and i did not like it one little bit but i was looking forward to having a good race friday came and the birds were up checked the wind again and it was still the same straight down the middle the winning birds should come if they dont get chased all over the country i thought it would be fast maybe to fast for helen she is a 13 to 15 hour bird and i was expecting them long before that when 3 oclock came round and no birds in the south i new there was a problem 4 then 5 and still no birds recorded these birds have not got across the channel i thought then what would turn out to be the winner in Edinburgh was timed after 5 still no birds in the south or west if this goes on much longer its playing into helens hands 6 oclock still no birds reported in the south or west 6 30 and my wife shouts out what about you dinner ill get it later when i get helen home between 7 and 8 is bang on her time i moved my chair to the bottom of the garden so i could look south just before 6 55 i saw a dot in the sky right out the south straight down the middle i knew it was her the way she was boxing wings shut tight dropping like a stone and hits the board pause to let me look at her and in i let out a shout of joy frightning the s t out my neighbour who was just about to take a mouthful of his coffee and spilled half down his shirt lol whats wrong walter i think ive just won 1500 quid eddie ok ill let ye off he said i was in heaven what a doo i said to myself what a doo i went in and took off her rubber she was Ets but better safe than sorry timed her into the stb clock went back into the loft and gave her some seed but she was looking for her peanuts so she got as many as she wanted i did not get anymore on the night and it looked like she was the only bird in the west a few of my pals from clarkston came over to congratulate me and some old friends phoned me also it looked like id won the westsection with the only bird on the day i checked the SNFC web site before i went to bed and still only helen timed on the day up at dawn looking for more birds but nothing this race was a stinker for some reason but i did not know why and was just glad to be in birds started to turn up just after 6 in the morning and were very scarce word started to get through that the national birds were libbed 15 mins after thousands of dutch birds but the dutch birds came back and dragged the national convoy away along the coast towards Holland this would make sense with the old heads turning back and crossing the channel in twos and threes instead of hundreds but that has not been confirmed so might not be true but something happened thats for sure i checked the SNFC web site again at 4 oclock and still only helen showing as only day bird in the west it was looking good as i headed to the clock station had i emulated my old pal John Feenie and won that massive cup alas it was not to be there was another day bird in the west beating me but you take it on the chin i was delighted with 2nd section 11th open and 1700 pounds this super wee hen has now been 2nd sect Reims 2nd sect roye 3rd sect liege 47 sect ypres 100 pounds pools in Burdine SNFC silver Award winner SNFC silver Award record holder SHU bird of the year and won over three thousand pounds in pool and prize money what can i be dissapointed about i also had 8 from my 11 by the third day so they will all be back next year including my wee lady Helen going for gold God willing hope you have enjoyed the read lads it was good to bring back the memory
ps could someone from basics please put parts one two and three in the correct order thankyou
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all you can do is try it guys and the best of luck with it
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well as i said the cocks were driving the national hens again for there 4th set of eggs which i was a bit worried about as this pair were to early to set them down on and i could not stop them from laying as i had no room to split them i had stepped up the flagging to one hour morning and night and was waiting on the first good day to get them up the road the first race was apon us and i was delighted when one of my sprint latebreds i bought in from louella a poortviliet was 1st club 1st west section 4th open with 3600 birds and she took all pools in the club over 100 pounds so a good wee start the day after the race turned out to be a nice day but the wind had changed to a strong northwest so not ideal for a first toss as the race team had been at the race the day before i decided to take the 24 young sprinters as cover for the national birds my logic was the more targets in the sky the better james and i basketted the birds and it was a bit blowy at the home end but not to bad so off we went but when we got to crawford the wind was very strong i said to james i dont know if im doing the right thing here lm not worried about the old birds they have been hedge hopping before but this is a new experience for the youngbirds and a bit severe for there first head wind we stood for ten minutes and the wind seemed to die a little well they have to learn sometime i said and this is there 16 th toss from here and with that said we libbed the birds cleared quick heading for home skipping over the top of the hills and down the other side out of sight as we came off the slip road at abbington we saw them cross the motorway 6 inch off the ground oh s t i said to james just as i feared there could be birds missing today m8 should have stuck with my gut instinct but its done now up untill this toss the birds were doing it in 32 to 35 mins as every toss previous had been a southwind 48 mins and the first batch came over my eyes scanned for helen and mary but they were not there i had just over half the birds from 46 sent the next batch came about 5 mins later and the three good hens were there i breathed a sigh of relief the old birds were all home but i had a few youngbirds missing and they started to turn up injured at the end of the day i was 4 youngbirds down and three hurt but no excuses it was my fault a mistake on my part still making them after all these years but the national birds had there first toss and all home and another lesson learned about youngbird training for the next 5 days the national birds were trained and almost all home together so we had 21 tosses in total from crawford and great training no hits the national birds were getting faster and faster as there fitness inproved all that is apart from helen she was always 5 mins behind was she taking a different route or was laying 8 eggs taking its toll i did not know but something was not right mary was always there with the batch and she had also layed 8 eggs maybe she was still catching up on her fitness as the birds were now a constant 35 mins a toss maybe they need more as i was jumping them in to a 120 mile for there first race i had worked out i would have to lift there eggs again to get them on a 3 or 4 day old chick there first of the year but i would need to let them sit ten days or they would go back down to soon and be on a big youngster not good as it takes to much body off these small hens but also sitting ten days would kick start the moult i checked the hens everyday and sure enough eight days sitting they both dropped the first flight my fear was they would drop two and start bolting the wing to catch up some people say this is a sign of condition not me to me its just a pigeon that has been held back catching up leaving a big gap in the wing for air to pass through with every wing beat but this is just my opinion i want them with as full a wing as possible i had been in contact with my pal andy burgess who had moved house and i wanted to go visit his new place in lauder and it sounded a fantastic set up when it was complete so off i went as i drove along the m8 and around the Edinburgh by pass my eyes were opened to what our westsection birds have to come through in Britain with a prevaling west wind as i drove farther towards the signs for the boarders with the coast in view most of the time it became apparent we in the west have no chance of winning a national unless we get an east wind or the race is a disaster where the birds are not following the coast but in a true race we are litterly p g against the wind we are racing against birds that are flying a straight line straight up the coast i know this opinion will not go down well with some but its fact pure and simple and im not out to make friends i have plenty but if you want to win a national go to the easy east guys not saying the east birds or fanciers are not good but there is no comparrison to a pigeon flying into the west anyway rant over i arrive at andys house he is really out in the sticks every town or village on the way in had a national winner in it go figure eh i asked andy if he had any problems with falcons and he told me never even seen one i had drove allmost 70 miles and thought this might be where i could bring the national birds for time on the wing thinking i should get one and a half to two hours out them which would be perfect if safe and i cant get that distance down the west without getting slaughtered so a few days later james and i headed for lauder with all the birds except the youngsters we tossed the birds and headed home with fingers crossed that we would get a good toss and we did one hour 40 mins the first birds and within 15 mins all were home except helen she was over one hour behind them now i was getting worried she should be resonably fit by now something was deff wrong with her by this time she had layed her 5th pair of eggs was that the reason but the other hen mary had layed the same and was showing no ill efects was it last years injury i just did not have a clue the next day i went back to lauder and for the next four tosses she improved but was still behind the batch i checked her over again but could see nothing out of order other than she was handling a bit lean i had just changed the feed from a basic widowhood mix and was adding hemp seed conditioner and peanuts she should be bigger the other hens were but not helen i decided to give her a full flagyl tablet for canker incase there was some internal canker that i could not see and bang three days later she was a different pigeon and i sent her for her first race 120 miles she was about twenty mins behind my first bird back to lauder again midweek and she was with the batch sent her into the next race 160 miles and she and mary were my 3rd and 4th pigeons things were coming together fine i had lifted both hens 5th set of eggs and put dummies under them as they had layed 3 to 4 days to early i kept there eggs in the house and put them back under them 4 days later so both would be on there first chick of the year 3 to 4 days old so that was the incentive sorted now if i could just get a 8 or 9 hour race out them they would be perfect meanwhile i was flagging morning and late at night with them dropping on the loft at 10 oclock or later the next race was 210 miles and turned out a stinker with many birds missing i dropped 5 good birds that were going to the national and helen was almost 8 hours on the wing mary had only been just over 5 hours on the wing so helen was stopped and rested mary went to meldon mowbray which was a real bad one with half the birds in our club and fed missing including mary and another 5 national birds a few that had scored already it was a sickener for me mary had been 3rd section roye twice and 11th section ypres so real class hen gone but i consolled myself with the fact that helen and the young hen maid marrion were looking great and sitting perfect in part three only three days to basketting what could go wrong lol
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at the end of 2019 i was a bit disappointed on my birds performance in Burdine even though i thought it was a bit short and turned out a fast blow home that does not suite my birds but i still timed a half sister to lady Helen to be 18 th west section Helen did not turn up till about 8 oclock that night to win the 20 pound pool and it was not untill about three days later when handling her i found a small piece of wood embedded in her chest it looked like part of a tree branch jesus i thought you have been very lucky lass must have been attacked and dived into a tree for cover then worked her way home after percy was gone i removed the wood and cleaned up the small wound and put on some antiseptic cream and left her to recover through the winter and thought of what could have been my other silver award hen mary turned up at 10 30 that night so my best birds were home late but home in january as i took stock i had 22 birds that were qualified to go across the water as most had already been across or had every race to the coast so a good strong experienced team and was really looking forward to the cross channel races and with two silver award winners a chance of a coveted gold award which apart from winning the section in the gold cup has always been my goal thereby emulating my old mentor John Feenie john had taken me as a young man to the SNFC presentation night when he won the section in the gold cup with strathclyde lass and i was in awe at the arb trophy he had won it was a huge silver bowl and i still remember the smile on Johns face as we went back to the Hamilton Railway club where we all drank and sat this beautiful trophy on the table in front of all the pigeon men where he got a round of applause from everyone and will remain in my memory for ever i had bought in some sprint youngbirds from my friend John Short as my loft was all Jan aardens distance birds and my club results were going backwards i like a gamble on my birds and our club has great pools over 100 pounds most weeks that and the fact that with the horrendous youngbird losses i had decided not to race my own youngbirds but just train them and i would use the 24 sprinters to play with in the club the reason i mention this will become apparent later the sprint birds were bred in january and i was delighted with them they were crackers then all my dreams were shattered when covid 19 arrived on our shores and training and racing was cancelled james mcguire and i had 3 tosses before the ban then it was all stop and in limbo i had paired the stock birds and wondered what to do about the race team and National birds if we did not get racing it was more the latebreds and yearlings i was worried about as no racing would put them back a year as my yearlings go to the coast in prep for the National the following year but if we did not get racing i had made up my mind i would train them all except the channel birds at least 250 miles to make sure they had the know how for the following year the channel birds would just be paired with the view of getting as many youngbirds as possible from my best birds thereby taking advantage of there year off Helen and Mary were not allowed to sit any longer than 3 days on eggs before switching them thus stopping them from casting there flights which they will do on the second pair if they sit longer than 8 days with the result i was getting a pair of eggs every 12 days or so and they were both paired to sons of each other so fantastic bloodines as the hens were paired to the no one and no two stock cocks when these sons were produced with the sire of Helen paired to Mary and the sire of Mary paired to Helen these youngbirds were to be the future for me and a great opertunety to futher build a team around my four silver award winners which has been an on going process for me always trying to think ahead i had by now got the 24 youngsprinters flying 4 hours per day and looking fantastic then the training suspention was lifted and i decided to take my young sprinters along with the latebreds and yearlings for a training toss i was going 30 miles with the old birds with the idea of dropping off the youngbirds at twenty miles on the way it was a great day southwest wind and so i just took them all 30 miles as the youngsters had been all over the country for months and besides they would just follow the old birds home james and i libbed the birds at crawford and headed home on arriving home i got the shock of my life to see all 24 youngbirds home and on the loft a few minutes later the old birds turned up yes i thought we have something here then we get word that we will get club racing maybe to the coast great i thought we were about three weeks before racing would start and james and i trained everyday 30 miles from the same place which is down the M74 i dont train east with youngbirds or yearlings as i want my birds to fight for a line on the westside as i have found if you train youngbirds and latebreds from the east they always come from the east for the rest of there life which is no good to me being in the westsection every toss was the same the youngbirds would be just infront of the old birds with the old birds fighting to keep up with them we had about 13 tosses before the weather turned bad and we could not train meanwhile i had been asking if there was any chance of us getting across the water and we were getting no information coming back then i had a glimer of hope when i saw the RPRA were going across the channel it was a while before our officials got the go head for cross channel races and there would only be one race the gold cup thus stopping me from achiving the chance to get a gold award with helen or mary and another silver with maid marrion which is what i named the half sister of helen that was 18 th section Burdine so again i was dissapointed but at least we would get the gold cup race which is my main goal i would need to start training the channel birds as i had been flagging them one hour a day for about three weeks and they had each layed 3 sets of eggs each and the cocks were starting to drive them again and thats all for part one lads hope you enjoy the read
ps sorry about the spelling my spell checker is playing up a bit tells me its a mistake but not the correct spelling
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great idea alan but what would be even better would be if we could get some guys to donate one or two birds each that can be libbed half an hour before the race birds thus helping everyone
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at the end of 2019 i was a bit disappointed on my birds performance in Burdine even though i thought it was a bit short and turned out a fast blow home that does not suite my birds but i still timed a half sister to lady Helen to be 18 th west section Helen did not turn up till about 8 oclock that night to win the 20 pound pool and it was not untill about three days later when handling her i found a small piece of wood embedded in her chest it looked like part of a tree branch jesus i thought you have been very lucky lass must have been attacked and dived into a tree for cover then worked her way home after percy was gone i removed the wood and cleaned up the small wound and put on some antiseptic cream and left her to recover through the winter and thought of what could have been my other silver award hen mary turned up at 10 30 that night so my best birds were home late but home in january as i took stock i had 22 birds that were qualified to go across the water as most had already been across or had every race to the coast so a good strong experienced team and was really looking forward to the cross channel races and with two silver award winners a chance of a coveted gold award which apart from winning the section in the gold cup has always been my goal thereby emulating my old mentor John Feenie john had taken me as a young man to the SNFC presentation night when he won the section in the gold cup with strathclyde lass and i was in awe at the arb trophy he had won it was a huge silver bowl and i still remember the smile on Johns face as we went back to the Hamilton Railway club where we all drank and sat this beautiful trophy on the table in front of all the pigeon men where he got a round of applause from everyone and will remain in my memory for ever i had bought in some sprint youngbirds from my friend John Short as my loft was all Jan aardens distance birds and my club results were going backwards i like a gamble on my birds and our club has great pools over 100 pounds most weeks that and the fact that with the horrendous youngbird losses i had decided not to race my own youngbirds but just train them and i would use the 24 sprinters to play with in the club the reason i mention this will become apparent later the sprint birds were bred in january and i was delighted with them they were crackers then all my dreams were shattered when covid 19 arrived on our shores and training and racing was cancelled james mcguire and i had 3 tosses before the ban then it was all stop and in limbo i had paired the stock birds and wondered what to do about the race team and National birds if we did not get racing it was more the latebreds and yearlings i was worried about as no racing would put them back a year as my yearlings go to the coast in prep for the National the following year but if we did not get racing i had made up my mind i would train them all except the channel birds at least 250 miles to make sure they had the know how for the following year the channel birds would just be paired with the view of getting as many youngbirds as possible from my best birds thereby taking advantage of there year off Helen and Mary were not allowed to sit any longer than 3 days on eggs before switching them thus stopping them from casting there flights which they will do on the second pair if they sit longer than 8 days with the result i was getting a pair of eggs every 12 days or so and they were both paired to sons of each other so fantastic bloodines as the hens were paired to the no one and no two stock cocks when these sons were produced with the sire of Helen paired to Mary and the sire of Mary paired to Helen these youngbirds were to be the future for me and a great opertunety to futher build a team around my four silver award winners which has been an on going process for me always trying to think ahead i had by now got the 24 youngsprinters flying 4 hours per day and looking fantastic then the training suspention was lifted and i decided to take my young sprinters along with the latebreds and yearlings for a training toss i was going 30 miles with the old birds with the idea of dropping off the youngbirds at twenty miles on the way it was a great day southwest wind and so i just took them all 30 miles as the youngsters had been all over the country for months and besides they would just follow the old birds home james and i libbed the birds at crawford and headed home on arriving home i got the shock of my life to see all 24 youngbirds home and on the loft a few minutes later the old birds turned up yes i thought we have something here then we get word that we will get club racing maybe to the coast great i thought we were about three weeks before racing would start and james and i trained everyday 30 miles from the same place which is down the M74 i dont train east with youngbirds or yearlings as i want my birds to fight for a line on the westside as i have found if you train youngbirds and latebreds from the east they always come from the east for the rest of there life which is no good to me being in the westsection every toss was the same the youngbirds would be just infront of the old birds with the old birds fighting to keep up with them we had about 13 tosses before the weather turned bad and we could not train meanwhile i had been asking if there was any chance of us getting across the water and we were getting no information coming back then i had a glimer of hope when i saw the RPRA were going across the channel it was a while before our officials got the go head for cross channel races and there would only be one race the gold cup thus stopping me from achiving the chance to get a gold award with helen or mary and another silver with maid marrion which is what i named the half sister of helen that was 18 th section Burdine so again i was dissapointed but at least we would get the gold cup race which is my main goal i would need to start training the channel birds as i had been flagging them one hour a day for about three weeks and they had each layed 3 sets of eggs each and the cocks were starting to drive them again and thats all for part one lads hope you enjoy the read
ps sorry about the spelling my spell checker is playing up a bit tells me its a mistake but not the correct spelling
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. expletive remove Walter that made me laugh. ( multimuffinaire ) 😂😂😂😂
that was the idea stan the tears were running down ma legs when i was typing it
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tried them years ago found it was not worth the hassle as i saw no difference in the birds from any good multi vit but everyone to there own
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funny enough it was a carrier choice of mine when i left school at 16 i thought of starting my own muff trimming business i was
very enthusiastic about it to and was willing to work from my room but my mother was not keen on me putting a sign in the garden W Boswell muff trimmer dont know why i dreamed of driving around in my wee muff trimmers van doing home visits and i would have been cheap to but alas there was not much call for a muff trimmer in 1969 look at it now everyone wants there muff trimmed i could have been a grand muffty by now or a multimufftinaire
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you need to get out more lindsay
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its been a while since i trimmed a muff moe but im sure you will get the hang of it if need be m8
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Hamiltons answer to RAMBO
Ach thats was an easyone i put 5 stitches in my eyebrow and all i had was pink thread lol
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must be in a section by them selves and out everyday had 3 twenty mile tosses so far with the six youngest the rest have had 18 20 to 30 mile tosses and stopped for the year ill take the wee ones any good day we have this week and that will do them for this year kept in there own section they fly for hours at the loft all winter