Fri 7.45 vote was 3 to 0 to go
Fri at yard for 4.30 picked up Crook,Cockfield,West Durham,and Darlington arrived at Leeming Bar for 9.30 ,set off at 10.45 with 3 wagons and a trailer on site at 1.20 birds watered and opened up by 2.00
Sat up at 6.15 blue skies but some mist and fog patches,7.30 route clearing but still Leicester a problem
Liberated at 8.00 in a very light south east wind turning south on route ,bird cleared very well
Basket numbers
Crook 12,Cockfield 21,West Durham 36,Consett 31,Deerness Valley 16,Newcastle 20,Annfield Plain 24,Tyne Derwent 20,Darlington 16
Total 196
Peter Mathews posted by Alan Brown