Albear

Yes and how bad is the printing, several pages where the print was started to far over and the end columns completley chopped off!!! (Or is this just my copy)?

Yes thanks Paul but pretty peed off. I've been on the internet at home since 1996 have tried every anti virus on the market until probably a year ago. I came to the conclusion Macafee was best, but in the spring I thought I'd try one care from windows when my ncafee expired. I did and didn't like it, two weeks after not renewing mcafee offered me a renewal at £20 instead of £50, so decided to take it, what I didn't notice was it had reduced functionality and that's how I got stung. I'm back with Macfee fully now. I would say free ones are excellent value, however I have 9 years of pictures from my son's birth to now on the machine, I have them backed up too but they are precious so I try and cover it everyway. My ony adverse impression of free ones is the amount of spyware they put on your machine other than that they do what the tin says imo.

Hi I've had a nightmare the past three weeks with computer infections, what makes it worse is that I have a new PC about 8 weks old and have had to have the disc reformatted and rstored and the laptop has had a scam pop up on it which transferred to the PC. A scam popup is where you get a pop up on your machine telling you you have lots of virus that need removing and to click on the link to do so, my link took me to total security which said if you paid £60 for the software it would remove the problems. Which of course was just a scam. However I was well peed off cause it had got through Mcafee and Mcafee told me I would have to pay to have it removed even though i was a subsciber. The upshot was I did and upgraded for 'total protection'. Mcafee told me it was because I was going on dodgy sites. When I finish a session I completley clean my machine, cache, history, registry so hopefully there's nothing lurking! This popup appeared twice on my machine. The first time was when I'd been into chat, elimar & basics and the second time when I'd beeen in to basics and elimar. This week I pmd admin (vallance) and asked if the site would check its security, in case of any vulnerability. He replied to me by saying he'd got a scam popup on Elimar, Id'd not mentioned to him I'd been on there. Also that he would let Richard know because he deals with site security. So I would just like to advise be wary going on elimar. I will e mail Les to make him aware of my post, so he too can check his security. Hopefully Richard is cheking baiscs!

Yeah but he only played for an English team :X ??) ;D

I've missed this , been offline, put them up for sale. Why should you be stopped? Unless of course you have been refused seller status but from Roly's post that would not appear to be the case.

Would like to meet Aad looks a character!!!

With a massive slice of luck!! That luck is to buy/obtain birds that are breeders. I know many say get the bolood and that is true it equates to getting birds with the constitution to fly 500 - 700 miles. But if you are not lucky enough to get the x factor, i.e. the ability to pass on the genes you can't win. That for me is above anything else, your ability to condition the birds is not as important as this. If you are lucky enough to get some good breeders then the wotrk starts but I don't believe it is as hard to condition long distance pigeons as it is to condition sprinters, especially if you live in a sprint hotbed. It can be done even in tough circumstances. My birds are captive from September to April the last two years, then they had their freedom prior to their firts race for two weeks and two 20 mile tosses. Their first race 123 miles east to West and they struggled, then next race across the channel 220 miles and raced every two weeks over the water. No training after the first race purely let out of the loft on a daily basis for set time. I started back down here in Devon in 2006. My longest races (channel) and results are. 2007 380 mile 2nd & 4th 800 ypm lost by .5yd! 556 mile NFC 1 sent lost 2008 473 miles 1st & 2nd only two birds on the day in club, NFC 556 miles 78th Open 4500+ birds, 2nd pigeon home next day would have been 20th section if I'd taken my clock back out. 2009 1st club 556 miles only bird timed, 22nd section NFC 556 miles, Barcelona two sent , one back out of race time (my first ever attempt). The only other thing I would say is that it's hard to mix and match i.e. concentrate on the distance if that's what you want, don't keep changing your food each week for example to sprint and then channel, unless of course your setup is big enough to allow this. And what I've found this year is my birds that flew the long distance also scored in the short channel races, after 4 NFC OB races I was 10th in the section averages and other than the 556 mile race the other 3 were 200 -300 mile to us. My Barcelona pigeon for example won the first channel race at 176 miles (St Malo). So I would say keep your fingers crossed that you have some breeders and then stick to a system. Those members who have been on here for several years will hav seen that I can pick them by the eye, well at least there is proof going back a few years where I did it on this site, whether people believe it or not. I would not worry personally about sending yearlings to the distance, providing they are good enough and prepared. Look at major sport the winners are getting younger and younger!

I don't keep families, try to keep good pigeons regardless of source, more interested in type, I keep two types long distance and middle distance, if I could fly long distance only I would but the NFC program prior to Tarbes were all under 300 mile to us

Good luck with them, one from each pair by the looks of them

Cheers and thanks to all others, tried each one recommended but booked up! Will try your's Cowboy

Hi can anyone recommend a decent B&B please at Blackpool that is clean and reasonably priced. Looking to take my 9 yo to see the lights at october half term

Well said mate. It's a super event organised by the Beavis and Cridland families, who have done a fantastic job!

Sent you a pm

What a shock, been a great friend to me! Must ring him tomorrow, shocked and gutted for him has some fantastic birds, sue and him will be utterly desperate and upset.

Fantastic well pleased for you, lovely to see someone expressing such joy and anticipation, enjoy them

Thanks Andy very kind of you.

Thank you all for your replies and advice. They've been going out since Monday lost a few, probably percy. Hope to get them trained end of next week or the week after will probably loose quite a lot but whatelse do I do, suppose I could put up for auction with cheap start but then I'm struggling for racing OB next year. Anyway the good news is the farmer has told me I can now move. So I need to get a loft I'm looking for 40', I've had a quote and it'll mean taking out a mortgage!! (loan which I may have to do!!). If anyone knows of such a loft for sale from someone gving up I'd e pleased to know, or two small lofts, there are some in todays BHW but they are a bit far because most need to be taken down. If the vendor would take them down that would help!! But if it was in the SW then it may be worth while. The other thing that always worries me is that they never go up the way they come down!! So if anyone is aware of a 40' anywhere then please let me know, or two smaller in the SW Thanks Alan

Jack can you exlain why this is please? Thanks Alan

Andy very sorry to hear about Lucy, I hope she is on the mend and my very best wishes to her, must have ben a very worrying time for you. Dark Horse I can assure you this has been a very well run event and as Andy says is open to scrutiny if you identify yourself, for what my opinion is worth I'm 100% confident that everything has been run as you and I would want.

Good luck and best wishes for a difficult job.

For me a great help, my loft is in a field a couple of miles from my home, if I needed to go home I could safe in the knowledge that if a bird arrived I would know.

Thanks

I will be getting an ets for next year and unikon is the one I'm swaying too however I have one big issue with it. Our club hq is under the stand of our local rugby club (very basic). I have heard about the problems about picking up the time signal with unikon, is this very probale stuck under a 'stand'? Advice on this particular issue would be gratefully recieved Thanks Alan

I have a feather leg Klas Krom hen hat has bred 1st section NFC and throws them regular and they are very good birds too!

Surely it's up to the seller to start off at a price he thinks appropriate. The market will tell him if he's right. No bids suggests he was wrong.