Tony C

West Essex at Peterborough 73 mile to me.

Outstanding first session. Mustn't give em a sniff now.

Excellent Andy. You've trumped me! I'm waiting on just the 1 now. If I get 100% returns you'd be able to knock me down with a primary as I cant remember ever having them all home on their first outing.

45/48 1hr 14 for 58 mile.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23648819

Mumford & Sons - The Cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4vZMFYXZk Dylan. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwVfEXJhQQ Mott the Hoople All The Young Dudes

Roger Miller King Of the Road One of the first songs I remember being played on the radio ............. many blue moons ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

Gonna catch a glimpse of it tonight, clear skies here.

The Marcels - Blue Moon

1500

Dagenham Trades Hall, 10 members sent 290 birds to Huntingdon

I would give such a race a miss this early in the season

A Scottish Soldier, in full dress uniform, marches into a pharmacy in the city of Edinburgh. Very carefully he opens his sporran and pulls out a neatly folded cotton bandanna. He unfolds the bandanna to reveal a smaller square silk handkerchief, which he also unfolds - to reveal a condom! The condom has a number of rubber repair patches adhering to it. The chemist holds the condom up to the light and eyes it critically. With a straight and serious face the soldier asks the chemist, "How much to repair it?" "Six pence" says the chemist. "How much for a new one?" asks the soldier. "Ten pence" says the Chemist. The Scottish Soldier painstakingly folds the condom into the small square silk handkerchief and the cotton bandanna and replaces it carefully in his sporran. He smartly turns and marches out of the door, shoulders back and kilt swinging. A moment or two later the chemist hears a great roar of cheering male voices go up outside. The Scottish soldier marches back into the pharmacy and addresses the Chemist, but this time he has a grin on his face. "The regiment has taken a vote," he says, "we'll have a new one."

That's fantastic value Ian. My club charge 50p a bird of which 34p(ish) goes to the Fed. The Fed charge by crates sent and not by birds sent. The Fed I fly in is by far the cheapest around.

Reminds me of an old boy I knew. He used a rod & reel with a tennis ball attached to the line, anything landing on the roofs he would cast at scaring them off.

Huntingdon, 58 miles. Gonna empty the loft and hope for good returns.

Problem is there's fanciers in small clubs that nick a card here and there which keeps them happy. If amalgamating with another club it could equate to them having zero success, they might chuck the game in. Let them enjoy what they're doing.

IMO good old fashioned plain drinking water is underrated. I always look for stuff that can be added to their feed rather than being administered via the drinker.

Were the attacks out at sea when liberated or when they hit the mainland?

To me the difference between a good race and a poor one is if the birds get hit at liberation, scattering them in all directions. Here comes the controversial bit! Sea races could be the answer, thereafter race a s/e route from the continent.

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IMO short flyers in the fed need twice/thrice the amount of training compared to the longer flyers in the fed. With the exception of percy more youngsters are lost overshooting their lofts and dragged miles past than any other reason.