Walter swanston

I try very hard Roland not to be anti English despite the triumphalism I was expecting after an English victory this morning.I can only imagine that your anti Scottish post on this thread was a bit tongue in cheek.I certainly hope so

No holiday for me this year my dear wife has used the holiday money on the installation of a hot tub in the garden much to the bewilderment of the doos and the dug wherein she reclines like f****** Cleopatra calling for frequent gins and tonics usually while I am trying to ascertain the latest fortunes of Kilmarnock FC.

Yes quite correct I am talking about a childhood during world war 2 when anything gleaned of the and helped to supplement the rations.Unfortunately the landowners did not agree with this freeenterprise.

I was first threatened by a landowner brandishing a loaded shotgun when I was ten years old, these experiences affect ones adult thinking I am afraid.

No a real Chezk owned pigeon released in France about the same time as the Scottish national gold cup pigeons and got confused.

Good luck with that one I got a doo two weeks ago from The Chzek Republic

I think it's called anthromorphism Roland very common among fanciers

Very well done to Graham and Steven.

If there is something not right in your club,fix itOr you could go on to a pigeon website and complain.

Definitely a Czech bird I have had word back from the Czech Republic makes a change from my usual South Lanarkshire guests.

Pigeon number CZ018011. 2016 red cock nice condition with ets ring bird maybe from Czeck republic

GB16S 40466 hung about here for three days and nights,ETS ring on left leg finally came in this morning. Any takers?

SU17R 1179 unikon ring and rubber dark chequer in Moffat about 2 pm

Yeah good reply I looked at Tibetan Terrier pups earlier this month as a compà nion for my seven year old Boxer *expletive removed* but the asking price was outrageous

Pups looking good Fifer I have been thinking about a new pup recently but I know I am the same age as you and the pup would probably outlive me slight problem??

In an article in today's Herald the journalist Mark Smith makes the following comment "i the 1950s thousands of working men in Scotland kept Pigeons and they were one of the country's most beloved birds.Now they are largely reviled for no good reason" If this comment is true and I am not sure about it at all would any fancier on here are to venture an opinion.

Lockerbie,8 members sent 138 Pigeons to Carnforth with the Solway.

A friend and experienced fancier sent nine Pigeons to Shap with the Solway at the weekend.He got eight of them home..Nothing remarkable in that you might think except that those nine birds had nverbefore been in a basket never trained and never raced, so how essential is Training?

I am sure there is no truth in the allegation that the Hoddom Pigeons can see their lofts immediately on release from Shap.

It is depressingly simple ,it's too f****** cauld for pigeon racing in Scotland in April and it will remain that way probably until early May so send pigeons at your own peril after keeping and feeding and cosseting them all winter.

Supposed to get better by the weekend even for those of labouring under the misfortune of not being Ecclefechan natives.

I am just back in the house looking for more coffee after a solid hour in the loft cleaning,scraping,feeding and watering my birds.The hills around here are covered in snow,the wind is bitter and my hands are about dropping off with the cold.The first race is next week not anything like spring here.

Yes perhaps you are right Pete but this is precisely why we must be aware of injudicious comments about predators on sites such as this.Sorry I do not want to appear patronising.

The Sunday Times page. 12. is having a serious go at pigeon fancying