Chairman

Not bad for a "Retirement Sale" can't wait for his Entire Clearance Sale???

North Pier, bloomin well dark, cold and very windy. Food tasted fishy and did'nt like the seaweed piella to many crabs for me, but its what ever grabs ya! mattresses were hard cold and damp, but the best of all was waking up to the cold foot spa at 7.15am folowed by the Coastguard telling us it was time to get up, they did not mention the free alarm call in the brochure but we welcomed the gesture of the RNLI crew, never heard their records though but by the loudness of his voice I would suspect a rock band. It was nice to get a warm in the cafe and enjoy a good breakfast, but you had to rush it down before the old geezers came back from the toilets, the show was okay enjoyed it, but there was something lacking,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the Midas touch, Our Karen bless her.

The Late Brian Long must surely be classed as being a most generous man of our sport. He gave so much and never asked for anything in return, rest in peace Brian.

Time for the RPRA to launch their newly appointed Glove Puppet and it's high time he earned his keep.

The best sale you'd go too would be your LAST one.

If you lot happen to stay in that boarding house we stayed in last year, TOAST is all what you'll be able to afford the prices they charged At Breakfast they a 2 for 1 offer. 1 slice of toast between two of us, our stomachs thought our throats had been cut, by lunchtime we were suffering from hyperthermia through lack of food, dinnertime was a bowlful of thin soup (1 bowl per table ) and you had to fight for the stale crust of bread. One of the lads ended up in hospital with double pnuemonia, they told us since it was Blackpool weekend they would only charge him for single ( so you see there are bargains to be had, only if your prepared to look for them). You ask the question what is the best thing about Blackpool? well that's easy to answer it has got to be the M55 motorway out of there. Enjoy, watch your pockets, be vigiliant and be safe.

Good point Mark but there is always two sides of this debate, a mate of mine who lives in Lincolnshire was a member of a very large and competitive club that sent on average 750 - 900 birds a week (inland).At the commencement of the Old Bird season last year only 7 members had ETS system, no member in that club would mark the ETS bird through lack of knowledge, so the lads that had it and the secretary had to mark these birds seperately away from the rubbered birds. Things went okay and the lads on ETS did not win many races. Come the Young Bird races 17 members had got the ETS system, the ETS lads must have had the birds in good nick, they dominated the results week after week in fact on 5 occassions 2 fanciers took the first 17 posistions between them. sadly at the club AGM resignations were piled up on the table and the fanciers with a traditional clock left for pastures new, in their own words they were not prepared to have greedy fanciers in their club, some of the elderly fanciers have packed the game in completely. Now whilst I appreciate that if a pigeon is payed to compete in a race I believe that bird should be able to be verfied or timed in, but surely commonsense should prevail here and I am led to believe the only fanciers that are left in this once great club are fanciers which all have the ETS system. I personally agree, that it is the fittest pigeons that win any race, when you have birds on song and your getting bunches of birds hitting the board race after race it is tempting to time one or two more, but these fanciers who have the ETS had the option of asking the secretary to only take the first few birds and leave the come again posistions for other members of the club. I have heard other stories of greedy fanciers, who took the 1st 17 posistions in their respective club, federation and combine absolute fantastic flying by any standard, but the club and fed closed down because of this, and my thoughts of where will the sport be if this is allowed to continue? What happened to sportmanship in this great sport of ours, commonsense should be allowed to prevail or there will be no fanciers to compete against locally, the only races available would be on a regional or classic / national level with central marking. Now who wants to have to travel those distances every week just for the sake of a pigeon race.

If all else fails................................Dynamite / sentex / grenades let it have the lot, you'll have a bit of tyding up to do but you'll be satisfied the little blighter is no longer be.............RIP you little beggar. ;D ;D ;D

Weve had a mole in our club for years and cannot get rid of him, does everything right, pays his fees, stamps his birds, does his share of the work, BUT one day he'll slip up and then I GOT HIM and the mole will no longer a pest no more.............. be warned!

Great Idea Gerwin, now then thats "put the cat amongst the pigeons" who's taking their clocks to Blackpool now? to be charged a lot more for a drum conversion at £45 -£55 inc p+p. If the NEHU have approved it most probably the RPRA will follow suit in february. how long will these chambers take to fit or will you supply them Gerwin for the fancier to fit themselves? Please PM me Gerwin and I shall order mine with you now! Come on boys don't get ripped off with the clock companies.

No never heard of them! a mate of mine once tried Chinese Tortures he would'nt recommend them said it was very painful and still has the scars to prove it.Be careful what you put before your birds, if pigeons required anything of chinese origin all the pigeons would be found in the far eastern hemisphere? Remember the chinese fireworks? they were classified as being safe until your house burnt down. Use with caution.

Steady ON Boys- S.A.S. (Saterday and Sunday) Can I please confirm we cannot take anymore bookings for Digs Under The North Pier. We are fully booked and cannot accomodate anymore fanciers, we have been notified by H.M.Coastguard that due to the high tide expected we may have to move guests back onto high ground to allow the tide to come in, the last time they made a simular request was when the misses and her sister went down on the beach to sunbathe (bless her) they lay there in their new black lycra swimsuits and just looked like two killer whales that have beached themselves, it was only after having been shot at, taser gunned and twice harpooned in their backsides and rolled back into the water six times did the emergency services and GreenPeace realise they had made a gross mistake. Where was I when all this was going on? well were any decent bloke worth his salt would be......................in the bar enjoying a nice cool pint to steady my nerves for what lay ahead of me. ;D ;D ;D ;D

I discovered a strong earthy type of smell coming from under the nestboxes, Aaaaaah! no need to panic I've found it, there you go gotcha it's a Burnley supporters scarf strewn under there, must have been discarded by a demoralised supporter when there bubble burst and got beaten, what woz the score had your goalie not turned up?

Maybe another line of enquiry could be "The Transport of Animals Act" would you be required to comply with before or after bringing pigeons into and exiting the sale venue. How far are we required by law to comply it seems there is a large bucket of worms out there lets be sure nobody tips it over and spills the contents. Happy Days Are Here Again.......

Should you be in need of a doctor whilst attending the show, I have telephone number of one please get in touch, my mate was took badly last year and this bloke came to the hotel to examine him, he told him he was poorly and diagnosed double phneumonia, but since it was Blackpool weekend he only charged him for single. So you see there are bargains to be had if you just know where to look!

Clockman, we'll be under the north pier there will be 6 of us in a cardboard box under the new charging tarrifs its classified as one item so we pay just a single fee which works out well with more money to spend on beers, beers and more....................................beers.

Last year we stayed in a boarding house, good god it should have been boarded up. Its stated in the brochure approx 15 minutes from the Winter Gardens they must have meant by phone. Talkabout a tight squeeze there was six of us in a four poster bed, there was no bleedin curtains just cardboard over the windows, holiday weekend? what a joke more like being in the blitz. On the menu it stated guests requiring mushrooms pick your own off the back of the bog door, the food was lukewarm not to mention the smile on the landlady's face she'd left fag ash in the porridge, lumpy I tell you what McAlpines would have loved some of that to reinforce the sea wall defences. The landlady, well we thought she was a lady till we entered funny girls nightclub later that night and then she became him, then him became she again, rather confusing and in the end we did'nt really care and retorted to calling him /she manwoman. The Bar prices were not to bad really, but it was on the second night we got a grip of what you got for the 3 for 2 offer when we caught the waiter pinching our drinks. Whilst we'd been out and about so had the landlord knicking our towels and loo paper, and the asked us to pay for extra's? we never had any extra's in fact to think about it we never got anything on our plates, we complained they told us it was french cuisine fish n chips, we ended up down under the pier with a jacket potatoe well I thought that's what he said his name was and we all took turns to swig his bottle of australian white, which kept our eyes well glazed and our minds from intense shock of the Dodgy Digs we found ourselves in. The weekend came and went so if your down the north pier this year and see 6 blokes huddled under a cardboard box, give us a cheer because it will most probably be your mates from on here!

If your looking for a real OLD painting with pigeons, I suggest you contact OLD YELLOW ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :'( :'( :'( ;D

Colour is only part of the genetic make up, winners come in all colours, shapes and sizes what matters most is how to motivate the bird to achieve optimum performance, as the old saying goes "Its whats in its head that matters".

Pretend your Peter Andre led at the side of Jordan???? Nevermind sleep you'll probably stop breathing now!

I would suggest any of the named strain / families which are of Janssen Bloodline / foundation should blend well with them. However has some of the more dare I say mature fanciers have responded that you must remember there are GOOD & BAD representatives in every family / strain of pigeons and even the top performers paired to top performers don't always breed their likeness at the first generation, but you could be pleasantly surprised if you have the time and patience to breed the next generation from these offspring?

You'll all be wanting replacement wrist and elbow joints with all the winding up you will have to do, better getting the misses a bike and run a dynamo off that to power your loft lights, be a lot cheaper and healthier plus it would give her something to do and in the long term she would loose some of the flab she's carrying through sitting on the sofa eating chocolates watching them useless soaps opera's.

Keep you chin up Debbie, we all wish you well, take some time out and reflect were you want to go, what you want for you and your children's future, whenever your ready Debbie we all here for you, and thank you to your Dad for keeping us informed of your well being.

Come on boys you should know this breed....................... Its a Bricoux

I can do better than that I sending you a pm with details. I'll give you a tip "Do not lend it" you will not get it back, the copy I have is personally endorsed and it is in fact the 8th copy I have purchased.