Wednesday lunchtime and the blog postings continue: OUT OF PLACE: Good news for New York's burgeoning population of quaker parakeets, and a Beastie Boys pun ...
Wednesday evening and Jon is not very well. His health is getting increasingly delicate which is also why this month's `On the Track` is delayed. This...
Thursday morning at the CFZ. I am out of bed but still pretty feeble. Hopefully OTT will be up later today but I am making no promises. Today's updates...
Life is not terribly good here at the CFZ at the moment, and we all hope that it will improve soon. In the meantime - later than we would have wished - here...
Friday lunchtime and things are still pretty fraught. We are waiting for 1200 quid to arrive from America. If it does, we shall be OK. If nopt, we are in...
Friday teatime, and things are much as they were earlier, except for some new updates including: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A strange tale of furry trout and true...
Saturday lunchtime at the CFZ. Everyone seems to be ill at the moment. Jon is in bed, and Ross and Dave have colds so they won't be down, and Graham is...
Saturday evening at the CFZ, and the sun is shining and the birds are singing. Jon has finally finished video editing, and Graham jhas done a remarkable job...
Sunday lunchtime at the CFZ. Oll has come back from Church, I have fixed the BT modem, Biggles has romped around the garden, and my dear wife is still asleep....
Sunday evening and after one of the most normal, suburban afternoons possible (Corinna and I went to the supermarket, bought Easter eggs and bedding plants and...
Monday morning. The latest phase of our attempts to beat this goddamn recession are continuing apace. Two hoary handed sons of toil came to take away the...
Monday evening and I am listening to `The Garden of Jane Delawney` on Spotify. What a wonderful innovation. This is the first day that I have been out of bed...
Tuesday lunchtime, and still no money, although as far as I am aware the company are still trying to blame it on a computer problem. Matthew and his charming...
Tuesday teatime. Corinna is in London, Graham is planting pansies, Oll is scanning archive stuff and I am struggling - nothing much changes. This evening's...
Many apologies for there having been no lunchtime posting to Usenet. I have been email-less for the past 24 hours and so although there were indeed postings, I...
Thursday lunchtime at the CFZ, and my lovely wife is coming home this evening. Hoorah! The lunchtime updates are many and manifold, and include: ANIMAL...
Thursday teatime at the CFZ. Helen my dear housekeeper has run a rusty nail through her foot by accident (not here, I hasten to add) and is refusing to go to...
Good morning campers! I am in a remarkably good mood considering that I was woken up at 8:30 thic morning by a remarkably vulgar sounding woman trying to speak...
Friday evening, and Tim and Fleur have just left. The evening updates include: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on the monster of Clapham Woods WEIRD ZOOLOGY:...
Saturday lunchtime and we are enjoying the relative peace and quiet of the longest weekend of the year. The sprucing up of the CFZ grounds continues outside,...
The longest weekend of the year is nearly half way through, and the weather is indeed gorgeous. Graham, Ross and David have done sterling work in the garden...
A very Happy Easter to you all. It is a glorious day, and there is much chocolate egg munching in evidence. However, we were woken by some more bad news; my...
Easter Sunday evening, and I have to admit that although it has been a beautiful day, I have been asleep for most of it. My poor beleagured head just needs...
Monday morning, and the Easter weekend is nearly over. Tomorrow we have to go back to the eternal struggle of trying to wrest money out of the people who owe...
Easter Monday evening, and the longest weekend of the year is over. Back to normality (whatever that means) tomorrow. Thank you for all your support through...
Tuesday morning, and we are girding our loins for the struggle ahead. Our monies are still held up by an unspecified "computer problem", so in the meantime we...
Well the remittance advice thingy has arrived, and we can assume that the money will be in our account in the next few hours. We are still up the creek, but at...
Wednesday lunchtime and it is going to be a momentous day at the CFZ - socially at least, because three visitors are imminent: Maxy, coming to do his regular...
Wednesday evening and we have a houseful of people. Corinna is cooking in the kitchen and delicious smells are wafting across the house. An old friend whom I...
Thursday lunchtime at the CFZ. Max and I are sitting in the office, and the little bugger is being unbearably cheerful. Graham and the dog are tidying the...