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Glorious here the now high white cloud plenty blue sky with light west wind! Good luck lads

The cattle market and Armstrongs are on the A7 Alan but to be honest mate two artics wae pigeons would be big news in longtown and wudnae take much findin?

Not to my knowledge Frank but as Gareth says there is a huge open area between Longtown and Gretna on the 6071 with the Peat moss works on one side and the 14MU on the other! So could be in either of them? The peat moss plant is owned by Humax who also have a haulage setup?

William Armstrongs yard! Does he not have a hub in Uddingston?

Thats the road between Gretna and Longtown, the military base, canny see the narket no being able tae take artics :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Would guess the cattle market Alan! As you come in from Gretna it is on yer right canny miss it?

Is that below average?

Hoddom 8 sent 250ish wae the solway fed tae Appleby 44 miles

here here

http://forum.pigeonbasics.org/topic/53282-ped-sheet/page__p__711644__hl__pedigree__fromsearch__1entry711644

Solway at appleby 50miles approx maybe send 25-26 yearlings!

Time john, time!!!! These wer the days without wifes and bairns

I would love to have the time to single up but sadly not pos! Used to single up the channel team from about 30miles with an hour of good light left? Ahh the good old days????

sorry Frank wusnae thinkin

Here is the tale Put two rings Su12s59 and 60 on a pencil covered in sellotape. Put them in a envelope to go to Falkirk 5 weeks ago!! My mate gets in touch later to say that he has received an envelope with nowt in it!!!! We put this down to experience and bad postal service!!! Today at a sale in gretna my old boy is approached by fed sec and a cumbrian fancier asking if the two rings in his hand were ours, 59 and 60 duly handed over!!! The rings were found on the sorting office floor at Carlisle where an interested party looked up the RPRA and forwarded the rings to them. The RPRA then sent the rings to an English organisation that had an S on their year who then sent them back to the Solway sec!!!!! Hope my doos get back quicker than the rings????

Was dry all the way frae east kilbride tae fechan at 12.00 but bloody cold!!!

weel done fella

Gid table that Alan

Heat Lewis! Birds that are overweight heat up the muscles more to lift the body causing muscle burn just like if me and you had a race, 16stone me against 11stone you I would be panting like a blackpool donkey wae giant haystacks on its back!!! Hot weather dehydrates cos of the HEAT built up internally! I am not doubting that stress causes the gaping but there is something else along with the fear?JMO

Drove back from East Kilbride at 12.00 doon hame and no rain but very cold nor east wind. Well done to the timers. Next week the skys will be busy doon here as I think there are libs at Longtown, Eaglesfield and Lockerbie????? Keep the ybs in!!!!

No dont suppose it will lindsay!

Is Carlisle and Penrith not the correct flightpath for Lanarkshire on the west route?

The loud bang certainly works for scaring the hawks and falcons but for flaging pigeons????? Could it be that when under stress the heart pumps harder, obviously, hence heating the poor wee buggers heat up until gaping? simple explaination? How do you mean it never occurred to you that the birds wer being attacked? surely you would have seen a sparr attack? Peter your ideas and experiences are very different reading from the norm, well done on yer alternative thinking.

Lost?

Wot was attacking them?