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NO CHANCE :-/

democracy democracy democracy ;D surly questions can be asked in our owned BHW ;D like the government run BBC ;D a brain washer of the masses ;D then if your not singing the right song it will not be published ;D in this day and age they should be no jolly's ,everything should be done via video conference saving thousands in perks for the few :-/

The whole thing as a smell of the hazel blears about it and we know what happened there :-/

The BHW carried no less than a six- page coverage of the RPRA Annual General Meeting at Coventry on February 27th, and yet despite all this reporting, the state of the RPRA’s finances merited just five lines of comment from the general manager. The report states that several queries were raised (no mention what those queries were of course), and the accounts were passed. Perhaps even more enlightening was the paragraph that warranted a massive in depth analysis running to a whole eight lines, confirming that the 2007 profit of £71,674 has been turned into a loss of nearly £23,000. That is a disparity of around £94,000 in just twelve months, and yet it would appear that the only offering on the horizon from the RPRA, is the possibility of increasing the subscription, given the statement that expenditure exceeds income. (How hugely perceptive a statement was that?) Could expenditure, such as the £16,974 itemised as Blackpool Expenses, but is infact Entertainment of Foreign Pigeon Dignitaries be an example of expenditure that is too high? Any other business organisation producing such an abysmal set of accounts, might firstly have offered some form of apology to their shareholders (that’s us the membership); secondly looked long and hard at their finance director’s competence and tenure, and thirdly be on a cost cutting rampage. Did we hear any of this? ~ Of course not. Do we hear that a budget is being compiled for 2009? ~ Of course not. Do we see any mention at all by the RPRA management as to how they intend to resolve this position, other than by increasing subscriptions? ~ Of course not. I do wonder if the majority of Councillors understand that turning a healthy profit into a loss in a twelve month period, warrants a major overhaul of what would appear, in my opinion, to be quite a snug club, where nobody seems to want to rock the boat. :-/

Whilst on the subject of the BHW Blackpool show, and having given some scrutiny to the recently presented RPRA accounts in the Homing World, I do question why a charge for the best part of £17,000 is in effect being levied against the whole membership for the Blackpool show. It would seem to me that in these financially and economically taxing times, and when the RPRA is showing a very substantial loss and thus wishing to increase membership fees by almost 100%, the cost of organising the show should be taken from the show proceeds before distribution to Charity, and not from the membership whether they like it or not. I cannot think of a worse point in time to be asking for such a large increase, when there are clearly other options open to investigation. Let’s hope there is a councillor with a little financial savvy, who will query these accounts and not just accept them as read.

yes busschaert raced here in the 50s he was partners with gil duncan of deal

that is one good looking bird,looks a corker

another one

last one

another poor quality picture

just trying a picture of one of me eyes

i have just used it for years to make the birds keep clean,its just like bath salts but cheaper ,i do not measure the amount i just pour it in until i think there is enough in it,never harmed me pigeons.

i feed the same food every day 365 days a year ,clean water,salt and vinegar in the bath every day .

the liberation went without any hiccups,the birds cleared the site at wetherby well ,

thought they where called malibu lofts ,me mate bought some yellow kirkpatricks from them .