The year is still young enough for me to feel enthusiastic about it. The sun is shining brightly and the snow is still lying crisp on the ground. Oll comes...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 3, 2010 1:13 pm
It is a beautiful, if cold, day. Oll is back and things are returning to normal. The last of our colony of African striped mice has died at the age of two...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 4, 2010 4:03 pm
Dale Drinnon, bless him, pointed out that today's blog details hadn't been posted to Usenet. The Lord alone knows why because I sent the e-mail, but both the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 5, 2010 12:22 pm
Good morning campers. It is very snowy and Biggles has already eaten several snowballs. We have burst pipes - nothing too serious - but Graham has gone into...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 6, 2010 1:02 pm
We are pretty well snowed in, and the small children of the village are tobogganing down the hill outside our dining room windows. I have no intention of...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 7, 2010 1:00 pm
Another day, another bloggo, and I am getting heartily tired of the deep and crisp and even bit.. CFZ PEOPLE: Bad News - Noela is back in hospital CFZ IN...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 8, 2010 1:25 pm
The snow is beginning to get tedious. Noela came through her operation yesterday and we are waiting for news. I have done the lion's share of Andy Roberts'...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 9, 2010 12:26 pm
I had something inordinately witty to say this morning, but I cannot remember what it is. Corinna is in the kitchen feeding both step-daughters and their...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 10, 2010 1:27 pm
Various Job's comforters have been prophesying a blizzard for today, and so - because both of them are starting new jobs on monday - Olivia and Ivan went home...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 11, 2010 1:15 pm
It's still deep, it's still crisp, and it's still even. Biggles loves it, everyone else tolerates it, and Oll and I occasionally have a snowball fight....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 12, 2010 12:56 pm
The second Tuesday of the New Year and it is getting hard to find new things to say about snow. There are, however, blogs, and what a mighty bunch of blogs...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 13, 2010 12:08 pm
Graham and I are just about to brave the elements and go to Bideford. I am heartily sick of the remains of festive food and just want something wholesome and...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 14, 2010 1:34 pm
The snow is clearing. Life is returning to normal. Graham and Corinna are taking clothes to Noela, Oll has a migrains, and I am bloggifying: BLOGGO: The...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 15, 2010 12:54 pm
Look Toto, er Biggles. We're not in the Arctic anymore.. Ding dong the snow has gone Which old snow? (The mushy snow) Ding dong the mushy snow has gone Graham...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 16, 2010 12:36 pm
We had a very pleasant evening yesterday. Oll, Dave B-P and I sat around the roaring fire talking about the forthcoming Weird Weekend, whilst Corinna made sure...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 17, 2010 12:28 pm
I would like to have done a spoof on the lyrics of Kevin Coyne's `Sunday Morning Sunrise`, but I couldn't get it together, and then realised that hardly anyone...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 18, 2010 10:10 am
Another week. It is cold and grey and we have a plethora of dull tasks to perform in Bideford, but I am in a surprisingly chipper mood. Will it last? Or will I...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 19, 2010 12:47 pm
Another day, and Oll is the only able-bodied one of us. The rest of us - to a greater or lesser extent - are on the sicklist. However er soldier on, and here...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 20, 2010 11:34 am
It is a very Drinnon-heavy bunch of bloggo posts this morning, but golly they are fascinating. Here, for a moment, I would like to thank the people like Dale,...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 21, 2010 1:35 pm
Richard is here for the first time all year, and Dave B-P is on his way over. Graham has stopped being sick, and Corinna is doing admin. Oll is cleaning...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 22, 2010 2:07 pm
It is glorious outside, and if it wasn't the third week of January one could almost suppose that spring was about to arrive. We also have bloggo updates...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 23, 2010 1:04 pm
The sun is shining, the daffodiuls are sprouting, the birds are singing. If I didn't know the old adage about counting one's chickens, and if it weren't only...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 24, 2010 11:52 am
The CFZ is always kind oi quiet at the weekends. Jon is in bed, and the only person rushing around bright eyed and bushy tailed is Biggles who IS bright eyed...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 25, 2010 11:30 am
Another week begins. Thank you to everyone who sent good wishes. I am a bit wobbly, but out of bed for a while at least. Noela however was due to be discharged...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 26, 2010 11:10 am
Tuesday dawns cold and grey across the North Devon landscape. Graham is on a computer course, Corinna, Richard and I are about our business in the office, and...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 27, 2010 11:28 am
Corinna is on a mission of mercy helping Helen (Emily and Jessica's mum) to the vet with an ailing hound called `Travis`. I am enjoying my new office chair...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 28, 2010 11:27 am
Today sees a bumper crop of bloggos, Neil and Richard M in particular have surpassed themselves. Yesterday would have been my father's 85th Birthday, but - to...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 29, 2010 12:14 pm
We have just spoken to the people who host all our websites. Apparently there was a major hardware failure at their end and their engineers are "just dealing...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 30, 2010 11:19 am
Saturday lunchtime and all is busy. Oll is just about to go into Barnstaple in search of fun and jollity, and the rest of us are deciding what to do and in...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Jan 31, 2010 11:43 am
I cannot really believe that a whole month has gone by, and that a twelfth of 2010 is gone already. Christmas seems only yesterday when in fact it was five...
