DEESIDE & NORTH WALES with Paul Jacobs Chepstow 1 old bird race 21st April Well, if this is global warming, give it to me any time. It’s officially the hottest April since records began and it looks like it’s going to stay nice for the foreseeable future. Our birds have been…

DEESIDE & NORTH WALES with Paul Jacobs Hi all. I trust everybody had a fantastic Christmas and didn’t drink too much on New Year’s Eve. What with all I’ve eaten and drunk over Christmas I’ve got another couple of pounds to shift now! Got to get myself in fighting condition for…

DEESIDE & NORTH WALES with Paul Jacobs FROME 1 I’m getting bored writing about all this gorgeous weather now, I can’t wait for it to cool down a bit and get a bit fresher. With all these east winds our birds are coming from races from all different directions and they are…

DEESIDE & NORTH WALES with Paul Jacobs Hereford old bird race 14.04.07 Well, what a beautiful week it was leading up to the Hereford race. Plenty of unbroken sunshine and high temperatures but plenty of east winds which meant there was some mist present. I think plenty of people…

DEESIDE & NORTH WALES with Paul Jacobs Ludlow old bird race 07.04.07 Well, after all the waiting, anticipating and worrying, here we are at the first race of 2007. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were separating the young birds last year and preparing to get them through…