Fred Holbard From Cheshunt
Written by Ken   
Friday, 09 April 2010
Fred Holbard From Cheshunt

This little article is about a day out to Fred Holbard who lives and races his pigeons in Cheshunt .
Best place to start is from the beginning, im always up early and at the moment it is light enough at 06.30 so i let the cocks out, while i cleaned all sections out, now the birds are split it dosent take long, the birds flew for about 20 mins once all in and fed, it was time to go fill the car up and head tp St Helens to pick my mate up  Bill , Pat was up and about when i got there, makeing sure Bill had got everything like phone, his cap etc ,any way at 08.00 we hit the road set the sat nav and off we went. It ws not untill we were on the M1 that Mark rang who is Bills son, asking how we were doing, not really listening Mark must have asked where we were heading too, and Bill being Bill told Mark we were heading towrds Chesham and not Cheshunt, so Mark told him we were going the wrong way ,

 

 

Last Updated ( Monday, 06 September 2010 )
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The Gods of Irony (Part Three)
Written by Rod Adams   
Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Enoch, the black lad who worked the garden and cleaned the birds out, was a Zimbabwean who had come south in search of a better life. As was Lisa the maid.  Both had horror stories to tell about conditions in their home country and the cholera outbreak was no surprise to them. According to Enoch the weekly wage at home was about£6 a week. £6.60 a day would be about par for what he was doing now. He was supporting a mother whom he had left behind in Zimbabwe as well as trying to get on in life in his adopted country. I was beginning to get the picture. It was black and white.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 September 2010 )
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