Walter swanston

I have just finished making up the members financial commitments for this year.A member who buys 50 rings with the addition of club fees,federation fees and SHU fees has to part with £94.50. This equates to £7.87 per calendar month. Obviously it costs more for more rings and for partnerships. I have no comment to make on this other than to point out that membership of my pigeon club compares favourably with membership of golf clubs or bowling clubs and the like. Interestingly while preparing for our AGM ,presenting a balance sheet and all the other tasks which fall to a club secretary I sometimes reflect on my friends and colleagues who make a close examination of the floor at their feet when the call goes out for fanciers to fill positions of office in clubs and federations.

Is the SHU fees not £17 which includes the 50 p for medical research

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It would be a big help to the management deliberations of my federation if I had some idea what other organisations paid their convoyers/drivers.Any information passed to me through the message system on this site would of course be received in strict confidence.

The past is a foreign country;they do things differently there L.P.Hartley Do'nt look back its all right. Bob Dylan On a personal note I will be 83 next month and cannot wait to see what the year will bring I avoid looking back.

A very happy new year to everyone on pigeons basic

All birds out every single day

Good morning everyone absolutely torrential rain here in Moffar

May I wish e everyone on Pigeons Basic a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year

Do not let anyone tell you you are too old Walter ,I will be 83 years old in February,just recovered from cataract surgery and giving serious thought to buying a Jaguar.Better to burn out than to fade way.

Excellent point Roland I ask myself the same question each and every week!!!!

Yeah it's great being in Pigeon Administration ain't it!

Welcome back Bigda,you have been sorely missed please do NOT behave yourself

The system has worked well as far as the Solway is concerned for the ten years I have been SHU delegate, as has already been explained the rings are obtained from Linda at the December meeting ,handed over to the federation secretary who sorts them out for the clubs and makes them available to club secretaries from the first week in January. I was unable to attend the meeting on Sunday because of an inability to drive after a cataract operation and I notified the secretary accordingly.

It is the same comedy every year at this time I have a member who will contact at Christmas looking for rings others will not pair up till March.Incidentally I got a letter from Unikon this morning asking me to join our club to Unikon Club at an annual cost of £84.We have never joined Unikon Club,I wonder if anyone else on this site has experience or knowledge of the supposed benefits of membership of Unikon Club.

I have a Boxer. She is hell on four legs as far as cats,badgers and foxes are concerned but I am not sure about trusting her with the dos.

Do you guys not get it? The SNP are to blame for the Forth Road bridge closing, it's a plot to cut Fife and Gordie Broon off from civilisation. The SNP are to blame for the extinction of dinosaurs on Skye The SNP are to blame for not approving what the Herald call strikes by Scottish jet fighters ( thought we voted no that would make them British fighters ) Surely it's all clear SNP. Baaaaad, that's really,really baaaad. If you do not believe me just war this thread get shut down

The first war between democracies that I can think of would be between Athens ,who are credited with the invention of democracy and Sparta.

Happy birthday George

Good point Steven I bet you have noticed the difference in speech between the citizens of Ecclefechan and Langholm.

The ancient language of the Scots sometimes called Lallans or Doric in all its rich complexities and variations is most certainly NOT a dialect of English but a distinct language I its own right see Robert Burns, Dunbar or Lewis Crassic Gibbon

I have a South African daughter-in-law,presently teaching in Abu Dhabi,whose teaching qualification permits her to teach in England but not in Scotland.Not sure why seems daft to me.