So, another year is upon us. I always rather like New Year's Day, and am feeling considerably less fluey than I have been, although am still spluttering a bit....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 2, 2011 12:16 pm
Every Day, in Every Way, I feel marginally better! I am actually more worried about Corinna than I am about Graham or me. I hope, however, that the worst is...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 3, 2011 12:45 pm
Another horrible night. Corinna looks like the Witch of Endor, and Ihave a hhumming sound as if there was a fridge in my left ear. On the plus side, Max...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 4, 2011 2:03 pm
Oliver has just returned home, and Max is just about to leave. We seem to have survived what is euphemistically described as `The Festive Season` just about...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 5, 2011 2:02 pm
Corinna and I are now well on the sick list. Graham is recovering and the person who is most compos mentis is Oll. Thank goodness that he came back last night....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 6, 2011 1:57 pm
Graham here, having put down the CFZ Axe and popped indoors for a while. Yesterday afternoon, there was a roadblock outside the CFZ... our firewood log...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 7, 2011 3:02 pm
I am sorry that the blog is about three hours late today, but not only do I still feel extraordinarily unwell (although it is Corinna that I feel most worried...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 8, 2011 1:19 pm
Corinna, Graham and I seem to be very slowly getting better, although all three of us still feel pretty lousy. Oll has developed a nasty cold, and all in all...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 9, 2011 2:53 pm
Apart from the flu, there is very little to say. This bloody disease seems to have become all consuming, but at least Graham, Corinna and I are slowly on the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 10, 2011 12:48 pm
I actually managed to do a little work yesterday which was good. The children are coming today - this is Shosh and Gavin's belated Christmas, so whilst I...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 11, 2011 1:28 pm
We have a houseful. Both girls and their p[artners are here, and yesterday saw the last bout of Christmas-related stuff. The flu is inexorably (but only very...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 12, 2011 12:28 pm
Everything is slowly returning to normal. The kids are still here, and even Oliver is slowly recovering. We still have amphiumas in the kitchen, and I am still...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 13, 2011 12:45 pm
The children go home today and everything returns to normal, or whatever passes for normality here at the CFZ. We are all still recovering from flu, but can...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 14, 2011 10:14 am
Good morning campers! This is the earliest I have been up in weeks, but I have to see my eldest stepdaughter and her husband off, before (in a very gentle...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 15, 2011 12:27 pm
Last night Graham, Corinna and I braved the elements an the remains of our flu and went to Torrington for the opening night of Maya: People of the Corn, an...
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Matthew Osborne
pilgrim_monkey
Jan 15, 2011 2:19 pm
We need Ur help - on Weds 12th Jan between 7- 8pm a brindle whippet bitch & her 5, 4wk pups were stolen from their basket @ home - Mum is well known & popular...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 16, 2011 12:49 pm
Yesterday afternoon and evening we finally finished Vol 2 of Haunted Skies. It will be out in a week or two. We are also well under way with the 2011 Yearbook...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 17, 2011 12:57 pm
Today is the first fairly normal day for a month. I had forgotten how good the first few albums by Alex Harvey were, and after chatting to Doc Shiels about him...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 18, 2011 12:22 pm
It really is beginning to feel like the end of winter is in sight. However, I am sure that I am tempting fate just by writing that, and I confidently expect...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 19, 2011 12:39 pm
Well, things are pretty well back to normal. Corinna and I are convelescing still, but we can do stuff to a greater or lesser degree. The good news is that the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 20, 2011 11:50 am
The weather really is unseasonably lovely. It is cold, but sunny, and if you look hard enough, wherever you look you can see the very beginnings of green...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 21, 2011 12:55 pm
The yearbook is continuing apace. I know that it should have been finished on New Year's Day, but the delay of a month has done it no harm whatsoever. I am...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 22, 2011 12:39 pm
Saturday, and a fun filled day awaits us. Corinna and I have got to go to Asda, and Graham has got to install new CD burners in the two main office computers....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 23, 2011 1:23 pm
I really am getting fed up with this blasted flu. It's been over four weeks now, and both Corinna and I are nowhere near being back to normal. Orange Cat...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 24, 2011 12:54 pm
And so another week begins. I finished the first proof of the Yearbook last night, about three weeks late. It is presently with Maxy being checked. After the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 25, 2011 12:06 pm
Today is one of those days where there is very little to say. I have paid the printing bill, Graham is chopping wood, and Corinna wants to buy a colony of red...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 26, 2011 12:51 pm
Corinna made some bread yesterday, and the whole downstairs of the house still smells gorgeously like a bakery. She gavce up smoking during her recent bout of...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 27, 2011 12:33 pm
Graham and I have a jolly day ahead of us, cataloguing the `dead` files in the loft. He also has to hang some pictures, an autoigraph of Yoko Ono, and a pair...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 28, 2011 12:58 pm
I'm still coughing and spluttering like a consumptive pygmy hippo, but am getting back to normal. It is still bloody cold at night, so despite Corinna's hopes...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 29, 2011 12:44 pm
A couple of weeks ago I had a diabetic eye test. The results arrived this morning. It seems that I have mild diabetic retinopathy, although no action needs to...
