Articles 2025 (English)

Signals (18-09-25)

I have never said it in so many words, but most of my columns are not meant for the better fanciers, but for fanciers who want to get better.

Things happen in a person's life that he won't soon forget. Like my visit to an older fellow fancier on his birthday

Fellow sportsman K had seen in two old movies that I had a ground cover in the lofts where the youngsters were. He asks what the pros and cons are.

It's been a while since I was with Roger Engelen. A recent photo in the Duif reminded me of that

If you race with pigeons for half a century and write articles for decades, you can't help but come into contact with many fanciers

Because there is little I hate more than shopping, my wife buys my clothes. As far as blouses are concerned, with one requirement.

In life you have to have some luck and that starts at birth. I certainly wasn't born rich

People can blame me for a lot, but by nature I am not a piece of grumpy who makes problems about everything.

Good results you can often predict ‘miles away’.
Or you think after a good result 'I should have known'.

Beautiful weather that May 1st to make my rising headache disappear.

I was always very punctual with the drinking water for my pigeons

Sometimes images say more than words. And things that have been depicted also remain engraved in the memory longer.

M was so content. His pigeons ‘were super’ and to show that he mailed a video of his pigeons training high above the loft.

Sometimes you hear complaints that pigeon sport is so complicated

It has been more than 20 years since Belgium was startled by the performance of a compatriot who returned from Taiwan