Mate's Rates

I had a call this morning on the phone here, which my wife answered. My mate Billy said to her I'm coming on down Now !!!   to see the grumpy old bugger    which she then came outside & told me etc. Some what strange I thought to myself as it was a 20 mile round trip for him & I had all of those thoughts running through my head as you do in that type of situation. When he arrived here   you will just have to use your amagination    what the focus was  . Finally !!!! we got around to "Mate's rates". We have a good friend here (an Icon) who without a doubt is an absolute champion. A few years ago here he was just about destroyed by the bush fires etc & lost many of his good pigeons & his lofts also sadly. Billy helped him get back on his feet by giving him some birds as mates do, when you race many of the same birds type of thing. He just had a phone call recently   from the Icon. Come on down & bring a basket he said with you which he did. A freebie   "mate's rates" was on offer which he  had the pleasure of recieving etc for the price of a bit of petrol. Nest mate was 5th fed 400 miles recently & the cock Billy got
was clocked in the national here (400 miles) around the same time by the Icon "Pick ten of your best" of what you have, are the rules in our national here. We had a good laugh about his good fortune, as blokes have to pay Big Big money etc here if they want the real good ones from our mutual friend. So !!!!!!   what does this really all mean at the end of the day etc. Maybe !!!!      always make sure you have good mates in the sport, with good/champion pigeons & you stand a good chance of getting a freebie.  
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its nice to have friends like that traves far to many in the pigeon game that are rip off merchants ...they seem squeaky clean and all good but once the money is in the bag its a different story ... to be honest the best birds I have had were gifted to me or were exchanged for favours   their are some good lads out there willing to help out ...theres an old saying"you can fool some of the people sometimes but you cant fool all the people all of the time " 
 

oldstrain wrote:

its nice to have friends like that traves far to many in the pigeon game that are rip off merchants ...they seem squeaky clean and all good but once the money is in the bag its a different story ... to be honest the best birds I have had were gifted to me or were exchanged for favours   their are some good lads out there willing to help out ...theres an old saying"you can fool some of the people sometimes but you cant fool all the people all of the time " 
 

ur rite there lol once bitten twice shy as they say   

some good lads on here also,some have helped me out over the years and asked nothing in return ,few and far between as we know,but again we also have the odd t**t on here .lol..but we,ll soon sort them out ......

oldstrain wrote:

its nice to have friends like that traves far to many in the pigeon game that are rip off merchants ...they seem squeaky clean and all good but once the money is in the bag its a different story ... to be honest the best birds I have had were gifted to me or were exchanged for favours   their are some good lads out there willing to help out ...theres an old saying"you can fool some of the people sometimes but you cant fool all the people all of the time " 
 

Very true O/S etc,    My mate already has placed a wee bit of pressure on his new stock cock type of thing "called it Black Caviar" That's pommy humour for you    I just think the sun has got to him. I'm thinking about, calling in one day there & I will take a cake along also, just as a sweetner. Just as he is about to put the first round of youngsters across to the race loft. Pay back time         as I first introduced him to the Icon years ago etc here & as such I don't want to miss out    .