Pompey Mick

I'm visiting Pickering in March, is the supplier anywhere near there. I could do with a couple of bags

An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple and peach trees. One evening, the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices, shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women, skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!' The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.' Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the alligator...' Some old men can still think fast.

After being married for thirty years, a wife asked her husband to describe her. He looked at her for a while ... then said, "You're A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K." She asks ... "What does that mean?" He said, "Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Foxy, Gorgeous, Hot. She smiled happily and said ... "Oh, that's so lovely ... What about I, J, K?" He said, "I'm Just Kidding!" The swelling in his eye is going down and the doctor is fairly optimistic about saving his testicles.

In my Club we race North & South using two separate Race Markers on the same night with no problem, plus many times birds have been marked for Nationals in the afternoon and then Club birds in the Evening with no problems.

The Milton Homing Society (Portsmouth) recently held their Prize presentation in the lounge Bar of their HQ, the Old House at Home, Kevin Bakes was invited to present the prizes and Steve the landlord supplied the Chicken & Chips to keep us well fed. Club Members < < TOP PRIZE WINNER 2011 ONCE AGAIN JOHN & TOM AUSTIN HAVE HAD ANOTHER FANTASTIC YEAR IN THE CLUB & FED WITH WINS FROM FOUGERES, CARENTAN, BERGERAC, ,CARENTAN, & 3 FIRSTS FROM HASTINGS PLUS A FURTHER 24 PRIZE CARDS IN THE TOP SIX. THIS CONSISTENT FLYING WON THEM THE COMBINED AVERAGE, OLD BIRD AVERAGE & YOUNG BIRD AVERAGE PLUS A HOST OF OTHER TROPHIES. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SEASON MUST BE WINNING THE SOLENT FED FROM BERGERAC WHICH WITH THEIR FED WIN FROM CARENTAN WON THEM A FINE HAUL OF TROPHIES INCUDING THE COMBINED & OLD BIRD AVERAGES IN THE SOLENT FED. John & his son Tom Austin with their fabulous array of trophies < < BRYCE & LLOYD SCUTT HAVE GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH SINCE THEIR PARTNERSHIP WAS FORMED. THEY STARTED AND ENDED THE SEASON IN STYLE WINNING THE FIRST & LAST RACES WINNING FROM KINGSDOWN, CARENTAN, MESSAC, AND WERE THE EASTBOURNE KINGS WINNING THREE PLUS 23 FURTHER POSITIONS IN THE TOP SIX THEY HAVE PROVED THEIR CONSISTANCY BY WINNING THE LEAGUE CUP AND THE OB POINTS CUP IN THE CLUB. ALBIE WEBB & SON ARE ALWAYS THERE OR THEREABOUTS WHEN IT COMES TO RACING ACROSS THE CHANNEL, THIS YEAR IS NO EXCEPTION WITH WINS FROM CARENTAN, CARENTAN, SAINTES & CARENTAN WITH THE YBS WITH ANOTHER 22 POSITIONS IN THE TOP SIX THEIR PERFORMANCE FROM SAINTES WAS PIGEON RACING AT ITS BEST, TAKING 1st, 2nd,5th & 7th SOLENT FEDERATION. KEVIN & JOHN ZERAFA RACED MAINLY IN THE NORTH ROAD SECTION OF THE CLUB WINNING AN INCREDIBLE TEN RACES , WINNING FOUR TIMES FROM LEICESTER, THREE TIMES FROM STRATFORD ON AVON, & WINS FROM UPPER HEYFORD, SCOTCH CORNER & NEWARK WITH A FURTHER FORTY FIVE (45!)POSITIONS IN THE TOP SIX. IN THE SDNRF HE WON 1st& 2nd LEICESTER, 1St, 2nd,3rd & 4th STRATFORD AND AN UNBELIEVABLE 1’,2’,3’,4’,5’,6’,7’,& 8TH FROM UPPER HEYFORD WINNING THEM THE SDNRF YB AVERAGE. MICK JOHNSON MANAGED TO FIND TIME FROM HIS SECRETARIAL DUTIES TO GET A WIN FROM FOUGERES ON THE SOUTH & WAKEFIELD,STRATFORD & NEWBURY ON THE NORTH ALSO WINNING THE F.J.WILLETT MEMORIAL CUP IN THE SDNRF. JOHN GOOD DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB IN ORGANISING THE CLUB’S ANNUAL SHOWS AND HE ALSO RACES A GOOD PIGEON WINNING FROM NEWARK, SCOTCH CORNER & LEICESTER WITH ANOTHER ELEVEN TOP SIX FINISHES OUR BELOVED CHAIRMAN EDWARD ‘BOMBER’ MELLIS HAD ONE OF HIS QUIETER YEARS , (NOT THAT WE KNEW IT) BUT STILL MANAGED TO WIN FROM STRATFORD & UPPER HEYFORD PLUS ELEVEN MORE POSITIONS IN THE TOP SIX CHRIS & DANNY WILLETT HAVE SUPPORTED THE NORTH ROAD SECTION VERY WELL THIS SEASON WINNING FROM MARLBOROUGH WITH ANOTHER TEN POSITIONS. THEY WILL BE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH THIS SEASON WITH THE SUPER PARTNERSHIP OF C&D WILLETT & GRANDSONS BEING FORMED CYRIL HALLETT HAS BEEN A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF THE MILTON HS SINCE HE JOINED THE CLUB IN 1962 WHEN IT WAS KNOWN AS THE MILTON ARMS HS. HE IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW MEMBERS OF THE CLUB WHO HAS WON A ‘NATIONAL’ AND HAS ALSO JOINED THE ELITE ‘FEDERATION WINNERS GANG’ WITH HIS WIN FROM BERGERAC RECENTLY. HE HAS SERVED AS CLOCK COMMITTEE IC LONGER THAN ANY OTHER MEMBER HAS BEEN IN THE CLUB AND IS THE BACKBONE OF THE CLUB, ALWAYS ONE OF THE FIRST TO ATTEND ANY GATHERING. HE IS WELL KNOWN LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY FOR HIS WRITINGS IN THE PIGEON PRESS AS ‘CHEF’ AND MUST HAVE VACCINATED THOUSANDS OF PIGEONS ACROSS THE PORTSMOUTH AREA FOR LOCAL FANCIERS. THE MEMBERS WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT CYRIL WITH THIS GIFT IN RECOGNITION OF HIS FIFTY YEARS CONTINUOUS MEMBERSHIP OF THE MILTON HOMING SOCIETY. Cyril with Kevin Bakes

Well I know what would happen if it was doing it in my garden. According to the Bible, Man has been given dominion of 'all the birds in the sky'. So I see it as my God given right to deal with this sort of happening in my own way.

I was told by Unikon Support that the update is for Unikon manager only, not the clock. If you assign using EastCoast Software there will be no problem.

We had a 'rich'owner in Gaydamak at Portsmouth, he bought the Club played with it for a couple of years, had great fun winning the Cup Final along the way, then after he broke his toy he decided he wanted a total refund, sucked every penny out of the Club and left a £134 million debt, and the joke is we still owe him money, even after him managing to 'acquire' the few land assets we had when he 'sold' the club on. The latest vulture ,Mr Chanrai, who foolishly made a massive financial error in lending money to 'Portsmouth' (Gaydamak) demands all of his loan back, he also, by a bit of judicial selling-on has changed from a 20p in the £ creditor to a secured creditor. Nice money if you can get it.

I always put a pot of beans in the nest box when the YBs start to find their feet. I believe it is the best feed out for YBs as long as they exercise well. When I used to race YBs properly (when I was younger) they were fed on a controlled hopper of beans and trapped with a mixture + red band. Feeding beans allows you to control the YBs easier with tit-bits, even with beans in their crop they will readily trap using a small amount of smaller seeds. In those days my YBs, fed predominantly on beans, used to range extensively racing through the skies, rarely flying around the loft. They used to disappear for 40-50 mins on release. I have even raced evening mid-week races with the OBs while the YBs were away ranging.

If its about registering 2012 rings then that is just a Unikon Manager update, if you register birds through EastCoast Software then its not a problem so I've been told by Unikon Support.

A loft full of character, looks like you'll get a lot of pleasure racing to it.

3 yrs ago I decided that the loft across the bottom had come to the end of its useful life being over 40yrs old. A decision was made to remove it and replace with a 12 X 6 YB/Stock Loft on the other side of the garden to get a bit more length in the garden. The most recent alterations I did (and hopefully the last) was adding external doors to all the sections on the widowhood loft for easier access. The End

As a Pompey supporter I have many happy memories of Harry (& Jim) and also some not so happy. I know Harry has plenty of happy memories of his time at Pompey, millions of them.

It's not much good showing 'Arry a contract he'll have to get Sandra to read it for him, and that'll be after she's wrote the application for the job. Mind you his Spur's application letter did the trick, he may not be able to read and write but he can sure count.

This was the set-up in 2005, the far shed is what remains of my previous loft built in 1965, nearing the end of its days structurally, the cups were won in 2005 when I had a good year with the OBs winning the OB Average in Club & Solent Fed.

It,s been lovely and sunny down here on the South Coast, but very cold, I left one drinker un-emptied last night and it was near completely solid ice this morning. Watching the forecast carefully as I am going to the Hampshire 2bird Ch.Club Prize Presentation at the Wellow Golf Club on Sat night and its a bit off the beaten track. I'm taking my Uncle who is 92 so I cant afford to take any chances with the snow forecast.

Another Post from Bilco on Pigeonchat: Re: rspb raiding by bilco » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:15 am Hi Lads. one of the moles (whatever title he visits under I don't know) is Duncan McNiven, (from the Bedford area JT), nice bloke, and he was very up to date. He knew of the case 20 years ago when the RSPB did a similar thing to me because someone had sent me a sparrowhawk's leg in the post and I happened to mention it in a radio broadcast. (I was cautioned for being "in possession" of part of a bird of prey at that time). He also asked if my YB team were my "Latebreds" - and what layman knows what a "latebred" is eh? The girls (Jo Daniels & Alison Sparkes (both RSPCA) and Claire Dowding (Natural England) were looking for pesticides, the Law was there to see they weren't assaulted and did little or no searching, leaving it all to the girls. EVERYTHING was searched. The Gestapo trains its troops well. Our liberties have been destroyed, they confiscated all guns, swords, Knives etc so no-one could rebel, now they raid us at our homes and take away our pastimes. ANY Irish (Republican or Loyalist) or Muslim friends who can join in our resistance please do so, don't contact me though, I am now watched, phone tapped, the lot. Just do it, shut up and keep smiling. Bill. bilco Gold Membership Posts: 4509 Joined: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:55 am Location: Wincanton, Somerset.

Copied from PigeonChat: "Re: rspb raiding by bilco » Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:34 pm At 08.00 hrs this morning the Law descended on me with a search warrant, together with an RSPCA girl, an RSPB girl and a bloke, an English Nature girl, and Two Constables. They carried a big plastic "Raid Box" into my house and started in opening cupboards, drawers, looking on shelves, etc. Several of them went to inspect the birds and returned saying they were well fed, watered, housed and accommodated. But need scraping out. Somebody tell them, pigeons are renowned for s***ing. They also noted three culls I had placed in a half filled droppings bag. They then bagged up specimens of everything and anything they did not like the look of, Ridzol, Vaccine, Canker cure, Vitamins of all numbers and letters, B1, B2, B3, B12, etc., louse drops, DMG, and so on, two tins of Suanovil 50, bought in a French Pharmacy at €22 each from a French Vet (Nobody tell them we are in the EU ???). All my rockets, my brand new Bownet, unused, for catching magpies (illegal they said), my computer, even my desk phone book with family phone numbers etc in. I heard that they also hit our friend Mo at the same time. Well I didn't think much of the RSPB before, now I detest the slimy ********. They certainly run our UK Gestapo. Heil Hitler! And I thought he was dead. Just do it, shut up and keep smiling. Bill. bilco Gold Membership Posts: 4506 Joined: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:55 am Location: Wincanton, Somerset." What rights have civilians got when it comes to searching property, I don't think its right RSPCA and RSPB 'officials' can search your property even with PCs present.

In 1984, after a fantastic season in 1983, tragedy struck when my Father suddenly died of a heart attack in late March, we had just had the YBs out for the first time and I had to move the loft & birds to my garden quickly as the house had to be vacated. Being a much smaller garden I had to downsize and redesign the sheds, the Wife, who was much happier now the birds were in the back garden had to suddenly become pigeon-friendly, which she did, and still does, to great effect having timed in on numerous occasions over the years. Here she is handling one of my (our) birds.

Just weaned 7yb (2 to go) from my stock pigeons, paired the racers up on Sunday.

This DCP hen was my first ever winner in my first ever race, it was a real snorter, a Hot thundery day, with a SE wind, from Dorchester 60ml, she won by a handsome 25mins I got 13/15 on a day when several members failed to time in.

This has been an on-going topic for months, an 'innocent' question which results in a slanging match mainly aimed at Unikon (who have a very good product but also a manufacturing base in the UK which leads to higher overheads). As far as I can see the vast majority of fanciers value their YB's at £0.00, they are an expendable commodity, in fact the only thing most fanciers worry about is that if an animal loving member of the public rescues and cares for a lost YB they will have to pay to have it returned. Far too many 'cannon fodder' YBs are being bred and if the 'cost' of an ETS ring helps to reduce this breeding by numbers then I for one will be glad of it.

My Club has joined for £75.00 and I will be ordering 1000 rings for the members at a saving of 15p per ring,, seems pretty good to me, as for part X Unikon it just shows they can sell them on easily because Unikon is the best, you cant beat a pocket clock.

14th April 2012 Honiton I 21st April 2012 Honiton II 28th April 2012 Carentan I 5th May 2012 Carentan II 12th May 2012 Fougeres I W/C 19th May 2012 Carentan III 26th May 2012 Messac I W/C 2nd June 2012 Messac II 9th June 2012 Region/Combine Queens Jubilee Tours Race 16th June 2012 Fougeres II 23rd June 2012 Saintes W/C 30th June 2012 Fougeres III 6th July 2012 Bergerac W/C 14th July 2012 Week Off 21st July 2012 Honiton I 28th July 2012 Honiton II 4th August 2012 Exeter I 11th August 2012 Exeter II 18th August 2012 Yelverton I 25th August 2012 Yelverton II W/C 1st Sep 2012 Honiton III 8th Sept 2012 Truro 15th Sept 2012 Exeter III The Wessex Combine marked races are the races that will be proposed by the Solent Federation at the Wessex Combine meeting. The Region Tours race will be open to all RPRA Southern region members (those with SO loft numbers). Arrangements for non combine members to participate will be made for the marking of their birds.

The Hants Two Bird nominated races this year are 12th May 2012 - Fougeres 1 26th May 2012 - Messac I 23rd June 2012 - Saintes 8th Sept 2012 - Truro A decision was made to increase the usual £100 per race 1st Prize to £200 for the Fougeres I! This represents tremendous value for a subscription of just £15 per annum. First take of the pools can often be greater than £250. To join please contact Secretary George Smith. 01329 312509 The annual presentation evening on 4th February 2012 at Wellow Golf Club, West Wellow. 7.00 for 7-30pm.