This is to help those people who miss a meeting ..... but we hope that it is better to be there...( or you might miss something!!?.)

Perhaps unsurprisingly because we did not hold a meeting last month, this month's attendance was again somewhat disappointing, a total of nine folk getting to the meeting. Among those nine, however, it was good to see one of our stalwarts, Eric Ward back among us.

Because of the Teesside BS show at the coming weekend, Bruce Ross had had to cancel his engagement as speaker, as he is heavily involved in taking entries for the Teesside show. The Sunderland BS members wish this show well, but unfortunately most had to admit that they did not have birds in good enough 'fettle' for the show, so had to give this resurrected event a miss.

As we had no speaker, the evening was spent in discussing our own forthcoming show arrangements - - follow link in the left-hand margin for the schedule - and breeding results generally. The meeting thus drew to an early close as we look forward to our own show and next month's meeting with Peter Watts, who is no stranger to the club

Attendance was a little down this month, largely because of illness in members or their family. Hopefully, all will soon be well and we will all get together again at an early date, and hopefully will be joined by members whom we have not seen for some time! All are welcome and sorely missed!

Despite the reduced number, the nine members present enjoyed an excellent evening with Brian Batey. We are settling down in our new venue, the Grindon Mill Inn, which has the added enticement of refreshments readily to hand!

Brian led us into an interesting discussion of into the value of a knowledge of, and the use of, genetics in forming a stud and this wide-ranging discussion, primed by Brian's deep knowledge of the subject, left us with much room for thought about our own planning for the future

The first meeting in our new venue, The Grindon Mill Inn, Sunderland, and once again it was our great pleasure to welcome visitors from the South East of our area, and a local prospective fancier, David Lawson, to our meeting. We very much hope that they enjoyed the experience and will return!

Certainly, they will have enjoyed listening to our speaker Adrian Richards, and we were delighted to welcome his partner, Ken - there to keep his son right ?

The total gathering numbered seventeen: we were sorry to hear that our Treasurer, Kevin Thompson could not be with us - he was, unhappily, hospital visiting as his daughter had sustained and accident. Additionally, our Chairman, Mick, had to leave the meeting early because of health problems. Our best wishes to all.

Adrian covered a range of subjects in his talk, commencing with the importance of keeping breeding records - vital in the formation of a good stud of budgerigars, and to maintain continuity. He went on to talk about his stud management in breeding terms, moving chicks around nest boxes to ensure that none of his breeding hens are taxed too severely.

Finally, he took questions from the floor, thus providing members with a valuable insight into aspects of the fancy.

Members are reminded that there is no meeting in May, because of the Bank Holiday - and that this will also apply to the August meeting.

Another good turn-out of members for this meeting, and we were pleased to welcome, as visitors, two established Teesside BS fanciers, Phil McHale and Peter Watts, who were paying a courtesy visit. As it happened, we had no speaker arranged for the visit as the society was in the throes of deciding upon a new meeting venue.

This decision, however, was speedily arranged and after a leisurely tea-break, the new Chairman invited our two visitors to take the chair, which they did with some aplomb. They covered a number of subjects, commencing with the selling of surplus stock in order to finance other purchases in improving our studs, and this was linked by the very popular Teesside B.S excursions to the birdroom of Joe Mannes - a much-looked forward-to annual event

From next month, meetings will be held in the Grindon Mill Inn -- see home page for details

Our first meeting of the year, and our Annual General Meeting, was well attended - although there is always room for more! We were sorry to learn that Kevin Thompson is unwell at present, but pleased that he is 'on the mend' and should be back with us. Happily, he had expressed his wishes for the meeting, at which officers were elected as follows:-

We welcome Mick Cook to the chair and hope his stay there will be fruitful, as we endeavour to work to progress the club. We also thank Eric Ward, who has now held the position of Minutes Secretary for a number of years now, and has been of particular value to this website, advising me (DH) as to its contents. We now welcome Keith Allison to the position.

There were two Notices of Motion. The first, that this society move towards amalgamation with our show partners South Shields BS was substantial defeated, while the second, that the society appoint independent auditors, was carried.

Discussion of the Balance sheet led to consideration of our meeting venue as its cost (currently met by refreshment sales and donations, was considered prohibitive. Two suggestions for change were advanced and are to be investigated. One such under consideration is the Grindob Boys Club where the North East National show is staged. Hopefully, we will be able to make the decision at the next meeting, which will be at our current venue.

Meeting opened at 7.30pm by Assistant Chairman Kevin Thompson with 12 members present.

Correspondence:- 1. Received a letter from Bruce Ross that he was happy to be a speaker in the New Year it was proposed to ask him for the month of May.

a) That the societies of Sunderland BS and South Shields BS amalgamate into one society.

b) That we have an independent non member as an auditor.The contents of this letter have been sent to South Shields for their consideration.

The letter and proposals prompted a very heated discussion with points put for and against. The general outcome is to wait until South Shields have a chance to discuss it and possibly have an extra meeting before our AGM in January.

There being no Sunderland BS meeting in December due to the clash with Christmas/ New Year holidays. Any changes to the Sunderland BS rules have to be forwarded to the secretary Joe Staples, 6 Rishton Square, Redhouse Estate, Sunderland, in writing at least 10 days before the AGM 25^th January 2010.

Due to the extended discussion on the proposals our speaker Brian Batey had a very limited time less than 30 minutes on Genetics, Chromosomes. X and Y and the gene pool for birds in a stud.

However, in his brief address BRian gave us some food for thought, introducing concepts which were unknown to the vast majority of members present -- concepts which will take some time to assimilate with a view to their practical application.

A good turn-out for this, the annual visit by the Northern B.S. panel, chaired by Brian Batey (who will be with us once again next month.

The members of the panel (below, top left) were Don Rowell, Linda Heighton, Brian Batey (Chairman), Bruce Ross, and Colin Wright.These stalwarts gave us a very good evening on a variety of points raised from the floor,including whether a large birdroom is essential to continued success on the show bench, and the problems in getting folk to commit themselves to working for the hobby by assisting at shows, attending meetings, etc.

Other pictures included in the compilation are 2) the attentive audience 3) panelists and members Kevin Thompson and Mick Cook, 4) our hard-working secretary, Joe Staples

Another reasonable turn-out, but still a lot of faces missing. and thus failed to hear to hear Dennis Cairns give another excellent talk

Members are reminded that if they wish to change any of the society's rules (copies issued at the June meeting), they must be submitted to the secretary in writing at least 10 days before the AGM at the January meeting.

Guest speaker for the night was Dennis Cairns, who spoke about the New Standard ‘Ideal Budgerigar’ this following the BS club show held the previous weekend, regarding the size of birds out of proportion, judging standards to the new ideal.Discussing some of the BS show type of birds winning at the club show, and whether the '2 faults rule' is going to affect the judging or not.

Bank Holiday Monday again, but in those circumstances not a bad attendance. There were eleven of us including the speaker. Additionally, we received apologies from one member who was ill with 'flu - thankfully neither avian nor porcine !

Our speaker for the night was Vince Scott who has been in the hobby since 1951 and a member of the Northern BS since 1953.He spoke on general topics about his life in the fancy - latterly with a Lutino theme, but recalling his many successes with mainstream varieties, and in the course of three successful partnerships. Vince gave an excellent talk which gave the members present much to think about.

(Vince explains a point to the rapt audience -- note there are still seats in all parts! - all welcome)

A letter had been received from the organisers of the hall regarding the incident of the main door being left open, as we do not use the main hall we were devoid of any involvement.This prompted a discussion regarding the timings that we use the hall, this following a misunderstanding as to when the hall was open from.It was stated that the hall is open for us at 7.30 and that is the time our meetings will start from, it was agreed on a show of hands that this will continue.

It was decided on a show of hands that in future any meetings which coincide with a Bank Holiday will be cancelled as Members are asked to note this. Easter Monday and August Bank Holiday are the two which will be affected in 2010)

The evenings speaker well justified the effort that those present had made to attend. He gave us a very interesting evening discussing a range of points including the administrative side of the fancy. One of the main topics raised was the fact that the B.S no longer publishes an annual report of certificate winners, and members were urged to write to the B.S about this and any other matters which are of concern to them

Bruce Ross & Ian Clarke were our speakers at the June meeting and were greeted by a slightly increased attendance for the occasion. Our hitherto Vice-Chairman, Kevin Thompson took the chair for the first time -- and did so with confidence -- agreeing to continue in the chair for the remainder of the year, in place of John Herring who is now taking a back seat

Bruce and Ian gave us a series of presentations, which filled another evening very well

April 27th

Happily, a much better turn-out, a good meeting with a total attendance of 13 (not unlucky this time!), so Dave Herring was able to return to his main job - in the kitchen making the Tea/Coffee. We were pleased to welcome two new potential members, who were thus able to enjoy our speaker for the night was Ron Fairhurst of Darlington, immediate past President of the Northern BS,who spoke about his time in the hobby.

He originally started in 1952, but because he entered the forces he has been in and out over quite a number of years, but while on tour in Famagusta, he helped form a budgerigar society for his comrades

He spoke about down to earth items which both old and new fanciers found interesting :-

(Go to Articles page for Ron's notes on his talk or click HERE)

Everybody gained something from his practices and he was thanked for a very interesting evening. It was also good to welcome Don Fishwick, another NBS and Darlington stalwart who accompanied Ron.

Business conducted:-

Our next meeting on the 25^th May is a Bank Holiday, Paul Redford has already been booked as speaker, so it was decided that we would have a meeting on that night. The August meeting is also a Bank Holiday 31/08/09 and to hold the meeting on that night, rather than change.

The North East National meeting had been held, on 23rd April. One of the items to arise from it was that David Herring did not wish to be show secretary for next year, so it is open to possible volunteers. The show schedule is being formatted on the Herring Bros web site, and will be transferred to the Sunderland BS site on completion.The meeting closed at 9.30pm.

March 23rd

Dave Herring, assisted by John, stood as substitute speakers for Eric Ward's video showing of an old interview with Harry Bryan. The change to the meeting programme was well advertised, so it was no surprise that only seven folk, in all, attended!

Hopefully, attendances will be back to normal for Ron Fairhurst's visit

February 23rd

Bruce Ross advised that he will be able to attend as a speaker together with Ian Clark for the June meeting. Dennis Cairns also agreed that he would be available as a speaker later in the year, this was pencilled in for the September meeting.

The points being that the proposal from the AGM that the subscriptions be raised to £4.00 for all, this needed an Extraordinary AGM for the increase to be started as of this year, otherwise it would have to be held over to the AGM of next year before it could have been brought in.It was discussed and voted on with a result of 10 for the proposal 2 against. Therefore it was agreed to increase the subs as of this year.

The main points of the NEN meeting were passed on to the meeting, Show date, 19^th July.

Venue, Grindon Young Peoples Centre, Grindon Lane, Sunderland.

Judges, Geoff Tuplin, Ray Brown, John Rogers, Ian Clark.

Due to the location and access to the building it will need somebody to steward the dropping of birds and moving the cars away to park.

Speakers for the night were Norma Phillips and Geoff Lawrence, Norma spoke that she had cut back on her official commitments and concentrated on her birds and they had improved accordingly. Geoff spoke that he had lost quite a few breeding birds this year so he has decided to stop all breeding from April to give the birds a good rest and get them back into a cycle rather than continuous breeding that he had been practicing. They also spoke on flecked heads, multi vitamins where they thought they had been overdosing, pulling of spots or cutting, and the lack of shows though out the year in the wake of Blyth BS closing down.

They were thanked for an enjoyable evening.Meeting closed at 9.30 pm.

A G M 2009

The Meeting, held on 26th January, opened at 8.30pm . It was reasonably well attended considering our long Christmas break.

The balance sheet for 2008 was explained by J Herring, and confirmed by the auditor J Staples, with the alteration of the transposed figures for Meeting Room rents in the Expenditure: -

£214.00 for 2008, £162.00 for 2007.The totals still remaining the same, these were accepted.

Officers for 2009 were elected: -

President E.Ward

President Elect. J Robertson

Chairman J Herring

Vice Chairman K Thompson

Secretary J Staples

Treasurer J Herring

Minutes Sec. E. Ward

Publicity Sec. D Herring

Auditor J Staples

Asst. Sec. M Cook

Social Sec. None

A Notice of Motion, submitted to the secretary by G Carr., was duly discussed -

"That the club should increase its subscriptions in line with other clubs in the area to

£4.00 Adult members, £2.00 Junior members, £2.00 Senior members ( over 65)

This did not find favour as a figure of £4.00 per member was suggested and carried, 6 votes FOR with 11 members present.

The original Motion was therefore out voted and the proposed £4.00 for all was adopted, effective from this year.

However, the rules of the club dictate that this needs an Extraordinary General Meeting, and this is called for our next meeting.

The AGM meeting was closed at 9.30pm.

The ordinary January meeting preceded the A.G.M:-

Meeting opened at 7.50pm. By the Vice Chairman J Herring with 12 members present.

Apologies:- M Cook. C & M Redden.

The minutes of the November meeting were read and accepted.

Matters arising:-

John Herring mentioned the problem that occurred at the Boldon British Legion club at the combined social evening, the persons concerned did not want it brought up again so it was closed as an unfortunate incident.

Northern Rock shares are still in the hands of the independent champion versus the government, details to be advised as they occur.

Correspondence:-

Lee Marshall has confirmed that the next North East National meeting will be held at the Boldon British Legion Club on the 9^th February 2009, it is hoped that many will attend.

Speakers for the next Sunderland meeting, in February, will be Norma Phillips and Geoff Lawrence.

SBS meeting closed at 8.00

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