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Good job you didnae give your talk doon heere they woodnae been able to understand yae.  Pm me your home address or if you prefer, put it on the forum.

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Good job you didnae give your talk doon heere they woodnae been able to understand yae.  Pm me your home address or if you prefer, put it on the forum.

 

Thanks Clive

 

At least you understand me  ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

Ian McKay

"Kingslea"

Kingswells

Aberdeen

AB15 8SL

 

Ph 01224 741028

 

Cheers

Ian

 

 

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Hi Ian, just to let you know that Jak Jak has donated £20 towards your charity, cheers Kevin

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Hi Ian its me again, David McAlister from Ponderosa Metals has donated £50 towards your charity, cheers Kevin

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hi ian what are you going to do if you get any spare tenners will you start another one for another school.

 

Hi Robbie

I have taken my time to answer this one as I was not sure how far it would go but will make an announcement today

Just let me sort it out as offers have been comming in all morning

 

Cheers

Ian

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Hi Guys

 

The university in Aberdeen asked me to do a presentation to three classes of school children on Thursday 12th of February for the Charles Darwin project they had organised.  A great deal has changed since then for the good of our sport.

 

First of all the local papers were asked to attend and spent 2½ hours taking photographs of the children and of the pigeons. They informed me it would be in the paper on Friday with photographs of the children. Each class was presented with a cake to take back to the school which was made in Edinburgh and had Charles Darwin’s portrait made out if icing. They also had a girl from London who wrote a book about Darwin to explain events to the children.  All in all, I was very disappointed the paper decided to cut most it of at the last moment and printed a small feature.  My wife Marlene posted out the photographs I had taken to all the fanciers I know explaining that it would be in the press on Friday then had to send more information out to say the article had been cut and she was most disappointed.

 

Paul Thomson (Blue Chequer Pied) posted on Pigeon Basics a thank you to Marlene and myself to which I replied saying how disappointed we were with the Aberdeen Journals’ report and the fact we could only put up one bird in the Kingslea 1 Loft Race for the three schools.  The teachers and children were delighted with this donation, a pigeon of their own to be entered into the race for them and hopefully win some money for their school. This means it will be in front of the children from each school for eight weeks while it is racing. The first to respond was pigeonguy147 with a donation of ten pounds.  This started the ball rolling and I now have had donations from:

 

Blue Chequer Pied, Robbiedoo, WB Masson, Bob Whyte, Jimmy White, Bugie (£20),

John Norris, Elsie & Kevin Elliot, Sammy, IB, Aly Mac, Black W F, T-T,

JakJak (£20), Davy McCallister (£50)

 

This enables me to give four schools a fully paid up entry to the race.

The schools are:

 

St Peters Primary

Kittybrewster Primary

Riverbank Primary

Woodside Primary

The university run a school information bus that travels round all the local schools promoting natural history and they also have been given a fully paid up entry into the race. I informed the university today and they were shocked and delighted that the pigeon fanciers were so generous. This snowballed after I informed you of my disappointment but has been totally turned round to the pigeon fanciers benefit in promoting the sport.

 

The university and I wish you all the best for 2009 and THANKS for your support.

 

Ian

 

ps I have enclosed the link to the Web site supplied by Richard Sandison

 

http://www.kingslea1loftrace.co.uk/

 

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Ian,

Graet result, I am absolutely delighted for you and the fancy as a whole. These are the occasions that make me proud to be a pigeon-man. Well done to everyone. Ian keep up the good work.

Regards,

Paul.

 

Thanks to you Paul you started it all with your letter of thanks

 

Thanks Fife Pigeon Wife

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well done Ian  the work and effort you and your wife have put in have shown the sport in a great light   its people like you who do thankless tasks to promote the sport  and we the fanciers applaud your efforts

cheers Alan

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Hi Ian just to let you know that I have spoken to Derek Parr of Northern Ireland who has kindly donated a pair of Louis Coormans to be auctioned on the site for the schools charity they should be ready in approx three weeks time I have arranged to have them delivered to Aberdeen. I will start off the auction with an eighty pound bid so come on lads dig deep this is for the kids and the future of our sport. Good luck to everyone.

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ian i gave alan ritchie your phone number he will phone you and let you know his chosen charity .good to see some more intrest on the charity syndicate good luck .                   robbiedoo.       ;)

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ian i gave alan ritchie your phone number he will phone you and let you know his chosen charity .good to see some more intrest on the charity syndicate good luck .                   robbiedoo.       ;)

 

Hi Robbie

He's been in touch

 

Thanks to you and all the pigeon Basic members

 

Have informed the University yesterday and had phone calls from the schools thanking you lot

 

Cheers

Ian

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Hi Folks here is the Balance and the donors

 

Donations for University Schools Fund          

 

D McCallister     AB     Â£50

Pigeonguy147          Â£10

T-T          Â£10

I B          Â£10

Walter Masson          Â£10

Ritchie & Whyte          Â£10

University          Â£50

Ian McKay          Â£10

Sammy          Â£10

Aly Mac          Â£10

Black W F          Â£10

Blue Chequer Pied          Â£10

Robbiedoo          Â£10

Jimmy Whiye          Â£10

Budgie          Â£20

John Norris          Â£10

Elsie & Kevin          Â£10

Jak Jak          Â£20

Davy Pirie     AB     Â£20

 

 

 

Total for 6 birds          Â£300

 

AB  is Aberdeen members not on PB          

 

Thanks to you all for making this possible

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