so yesterday i went to see charlie he's um switched directions so he used to race south
road and he's decided to race north road now so he's joined the north road club uh in allerton
um halfway through the old bird season which is something that's quite tricky to do because
you quite often end up losing your birds um and it is tricky for them but it has been done before
anyway so yesterday uh i went along to see him to see his first birds come back from the first race
uh which was darlington i think it was around about 100 miles 90 miles or something might be
92 miles uh so you can see what happened there coming up one thing to point out about this race
is how windy it is it's uh quite strong i think like 30 miles an hour between in the 20 upper
20s and it's a south westerly or southeast it's a southern wind anyway and charlie's racing from
the north so it's right on the nose it's the first time the birds have ever raced from the north road
uh so it's gonna be quite a tricky race uh let's see how they uh get on so if they a half
past if they get here at half past it's 43 and 47 miles an hour well as long as they turn up today
that way they're not peeling off for you that's at 942.
they're really low they are more going across just behind those trees one two three four that
way no no to the right they're coming from there's one there we are yeah there we go
that's a good clock that was
that's not far behind me turn around
that's pretty good isn't it i didn't see it did it come through there
well please you've got one for next week
there's some more air coming here we are look there we are
there's some more behind it come on come on oh that cruise
it's doing a loop
two more charlie two more behind you oh took their wings in it's awesome
here's one
yeah took his wings
here we go
13 out of 30.
do
so it turns out that charlie didn't do too badly i think he was third or fourth or something like
that in the club but he got quite a few birds back so i think he's waiting for seven the last
time i spoke to him and i think he was five or six minutes behind the leaders which isn't too
bad really it was quite a strong southerly wind and obviously they were racing from the north so
the thing for those of you that don't know uh they're generally if you're in england you race
north road or south road so um if we're in the middle so we've got kind of got a choice we want
to right we've kind of got a choice if we want to ride race north or south there's a guy that
can help him train and take his birds up north and uh and liberate them he's 84 85 years old now so
um i think he likes the idea that he can basket his birds up give him someone else and get him
to train them so and he can be at the loft and and get them in which seems quite good