alec guinness

i think walter we live in the past as scottish national fanciers,gone are the days when we had 5 or 6000 birds at the french races,the national must appeal to every fancier in scotland and that means every fancier has a choice whether it is 300,400 500 or 600 mile racing,yes walter we were all novices at one time.the birds i sent to the distance races in 2009 competed mostly from one of the two inland nationals last year,the alternative being a federation 270-300 mile race(not much point) so i dont see a problem with inland nationals. :) :)

cant agree with dropping the inland nationals,the snfc programme has races for all fanciers in scotland, fanciers just a year or two in the sport can compete at national level through the inland and yb nats and hopefully will go on and have a go at the french/belgian races,the club i previously flew in had the same 4 or 5 diehards at the nationals then in 1997 from the very first inland nat,frome i think there were 16 fanciers competing,the programme is taylormade for scottish fanciers lets not tinker with it. ;) :) :)

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spot on alf,have met most of the lanarkshire boys in there over the last few years ;D wont tell you which lanarkshire boys are trannies though. :-/ ;D

was half cut this time last week aswell in roxys blackpool,gettin a taste for this drink thing dont no if this is good or bad. :-/ ;D

ok bob took delivery of a double west coast combine winner this week and he is a cracker,hopefully wont be too hungover the morra bob. :) :)

hi alf just back from the campsie bowling club with the wife,there was a very good turn on and i had a few magners and also a few glayva n ice bit half cut but going to watch the comic strip on sky gold. :) going through the doos in the morning and getting ready for an assualt on 2010. :) :)

you have been about jb,all sounds very exciting but i suppose just like most jobs good days and no so good days. :)

panel beater to trade,now in the management side working for scotlands largest motor retailer. :) :)

got my dad a copy for his birthday about 25 years ago,he looks it out every winter and has a wee read. :) great book.

well done,saw some of your doos at lothian show and were in great order. :)

ma old mans being scraping out after lunchtime, :) :)

won by john bosworths the graduate,2000 was a very tough messac race with few in race time.l :) :)

got an awful lot of races to get through.

cutting back a bit of late as ma dad is no gettin any younger,maybe 20 darkness ybs all to fly programme and snfc ybn,and 35ish younger ones trained and raced to about 100 miles. :) :)

central southern classic was formed in the late 70s,this was long before the national flying club adopted the mid day libs.

derek our thoughts are with you, linda and the family,john ann and lynsey.

thanks for that endflight,will miss it as we have had a good time recently at the fauldhouse show :-/

president JOHN HOUSTON was there and layed a wreath on behalf of the SCOTTISH NATIONAL FLYING CLUB. :) :)

have again read this thread which appears to have gone on a mazy run, :-/ :-/ 1 the race was to comemerate the war dead. 2 any deficit incurred was to be costed by a third party. 3 the PRESIDENT of the snfc was with the convoy from start to finish. 4 the race was a complete success with regards returns. these are only a few key points imo,on a personnel note i had 4 birds at the race and 3 of the 4 were clocked within 1 hour in the morning with the other bird arriving a few days later,this was for me and my father our most disapointing national of the season,neverless the race was WITHOUT DOUBT one of the snfc and also lanarkshire feds most successful races of the last 10 years :) :)hope ypres is included in the snfc programme for 2010.

well said budgie,commonsense must always prevail.

all diplomas are awarded equally in each region ie 1/10 so in this case location is no disadvantage. ;) good luck for 2010.

diploma 1 for every 10 entries,changed maybe 5 or 6 years agofrom 15. ;)

15 pairs far to many imo. :)about half would be nearer the mark.

martin i take you are happy with the birds eyesight.?????????? :-/ :-/