THE FIFER

LOVELY PHOTOS DOC AND PLENTY TROPHIES, WELL DONE

THE FIFE FEDERATION GET UNDER WAY WITH THEIR FIRST RACE ON THE 29TH APRIL, SORRY NO DETAILS OF THE RACE PROGRAMME YET, THE LEVEN HS WILL BE HOLDING ITS BREEDER BUYER SALE IN THE MILLFIELD ON SUNDAY THE 30TH APRIL, 12 NOON FOR A 1PM START, ALL ENTRIES MOST WELCOME,

THINKING OF YOU ALWAYS THE FIFER.

GREAT MEALYBAR, WOULD THE PHOTOS OF THE FORTH BE HANDY AGAIN,

ITS POSSIBLE SO LONG AS THEY DO NOT GO IN TO SOMEONE,

I THINK FROM WEDNESDAY WE ARE TO SEE THE LAST OF TRHE SUNSHINE FOR A FEW DAYS

I LIKE U SQUARE PEG LOOK ACCROSS THE FORTH AND HAVE A GREAT VIEW FROM MY ATTIC AND TAKE A PHOTO EACH SATURDAY MORNING TO POST ON THE SITE, ANYONE WISHING THE PHOTO E-MAILED LET ME KNOW, I HAVE THE BINOCULARS WITH THE CAMERA IN THEM GET A GOOD PHOTO,

LINE OF FLIGHT IS OK I9F THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE WIND ON THEIR TAILS BUT IF THE WIND IS ACCROSS THEIR LINE OF FLIGHT THEY WILL BE OFF IT SO GOOD TO TRAIN DIFFERENT .

VERY SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT CLOCKY.

I GET BIG EGGS BUT ONLY HATCH ONE NORMAL YOUNGSTER.

THE WEATHER FOR MARCH AND BEGINNING OF APRIL ALWAYS COLD AND WET, TOO EARLY FOR TRAINING,

I TRIED A FEW (DEEP LITTER) BUT WENT BACK TO SCRAPING, I USE HAY (BOUGHT FROM THE PET SHOP) FOR MY NEST BOWLS, SITS GOOD IN THEM JUST LIKE NEST FELTS, AS SOON AS YOUNGSTERS START COMING OUT NEST BOWLS I CHANGE IT.

REVERSEWINGS

MINE IS OUT ON THE LOFT BUT NONE TAKING OFF YET

GOOD INFO.

BRICOUX

ARIE VISSER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

VAN BRUAENE

BUSSCHAERT

I THINK IF THERE IS A MIX OF BIRDS FROM DIFFERENT LOFTS ETC U MUST HAVE A LICENCE

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

IVE PUT MY 2P WORTH IN WITH MY VIEWS BUT AGREE ITS GOING ON AND ON, HOPE ALL HAVE A GOOD SEASON AND WE GET MORE GOOD NEWS REGARDING RACING OUR BIRDS.

THIS IS THE BIG PROBLEM IN SCOTLAND ROSE DELEGATES DO AND VOTE AS THEY WANT (THE MEMBERS FAULT) WHEN I WAS PRES. OF THE FED I TRIED TO GET THIS THROUGH THAT U USE UR DELEGATES AS U WANT THEY ARE MESSENGERS, BUT IT WAAS HOPELESS, NO ONE WAS INTERESTED, AND ITS THE SAME YET, I AM THE CLUB DELEGATE WELL ONE OF THEM, I HAVE NEVER KNOWN MY CLUB TO HAVE A MEETING TO INSTRUCT ITS DELEGATES HOW TO VOTE ETC AT FED MEETINGS OR THE FED TO HAVE A MEETING TO INSTRUCT THEIR DELEGATES HOW TO VOTE AT SHU MEETINGS ITS JUST NOT DONE, AND ITS THE MEMBERS FAULT, DELEGATES ARE MESSENGERS, I HAVE BEEN AT MEETING AND SEEN 2 DELEGATES FROM THE SAME ORGANISATION ARGUING AND VOTING AGIANST ONE ANOTHER, THIS IS OUT OF ORDER AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED, THE ONLY WAY U CAN GET THINGS DONE PROPERLY IS GO BY THE RULES 100% WHETHER U THINK THEY ARE RIGHT OR NOT, IF ITS A RULE WHICH IS NOT RIGHT THEN IT SHOULD NOT BE THERE THE MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE IT REMOVED BY THE PROPER WAY, AND THIS IS THE PROBLEM, NOT GOING BY THE RULES AND NOT BEING BOTHERED TO ATTEND MEETINGS, WHICH THE LATER IS OK BUT IF U DO NOT ATTEND U SHOULD NOT CRITISIZE IT, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF READING RULE BOOKS AND THIS IS ALL OVER NOT JUST IN THE SHU RULES ARE NOT ADHEARED TO ON MANY OCCASIONS ALL OVER, IT SHOULD NOT BE. IF A RULE SAY'S BEND U SHOULD BEND, IF ITS NOT TO BE USED THEN REMOVE IT UNTIL THEN ITS THERE. ALL OFFICIALS SHOULD KNOW THE RULES AND SEE THAT THEY ARE CARRIED OUT.

IT WAS ON THE AGANDA FOR THE AGM, I WAS THERE, SPOKE AND VOTED AGAINST IT BUT THERE WAS MORE ATTENDED THE MEETING FOR IT, THE NUMBER OF FANCIERS AT THE MEETING WAS ABOUT THE NORM FOR A SHU AGM, AROUND 40, OUT OF 4,500 MEMBERS, AND FOR FANCIERS REFFERING TO NOT GETTING A SAY IN THINGS, ALL CLUBS HAVE DELEGATES (MESSENGERS) TO THEIR FEDS AND ALL FEDS HAVE DELEGATES (MESSENGERS) TO THE SHU, SO CLUB MEMBERS INSTRUCT THEIR DELEGATES ON HOW TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE AT FED AND SHU MEETINGS THIS IS HOW ALL MEMBERS GET THEIR VIOCE HEARD, AT AGMs ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS RESPONCIBILITY TO VOTE AS THEY WANT, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT MOST DELEGATES GO TO MEETINGS AND SAY AND VOTE FOR WHAT THEY WANT, AND THIS IS THE BIG PROBLEM IN THE SPORT TO-DAY, AND IT'S OK FOR THIS TO BE DONE, UNTIL SOMETHING CROPS UP THAT THE FRANCIERS DO NOT LIKE THEN ALL HELL BREAKS OUT, IT'S THE FANCIERS TO BLAME FOR ALLOWING THIS AND TOO LAZY TO GO TO MEETINGS, TO FINNISH OFF, DO I PERSONALLY WANT THE ETS, NO, AS THERE IS A LOT NEEDING SORTED OUT IN ITS USE, I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING THERE MAYBE, BUT NOT AS IT IS AND MORE-SO WITH THE PROBLEMS IT HAS CAUSED, BUT IT WAS ON THE AGM AGENDA AND IT WAS VOTED FOR, A LOT SAY IT SHOULD HAVE WENT TO A MEMBERS BALOT, WELL YES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OK AND SOME SAY THIS IS WHY THEY DO NOT ACCEPT IT IN SCOTLAND, THE RPRA DID'NT PUT IT TO THE MEMBERS AND IT WAS DEFEATED AND ACCEPTED, NO ONE SAYING ITS NOT FAIR IT SHOULD HAVE WENT TO A MEMBERS BALOT IS THERE, AND I WOULD STILL VOTE AGAINST IT IF IT CAME UP, BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY HARD FEELINGS AGAINST ANYONE WITH IT, THEY WENT TO THE MEETING AND GOT IT PASSED.