Just about to start on day two of filming OTT#30. The new camera equipment has improved our production quality immeasurably, but it takes a lot longer now... ...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 27, 2010 11:59 am
A full day's filming for On the Track #30 awaits. For the first time we have a professional level camera, and Olivia and Ivan are being pressed into duty as...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 26, 2010 11:38 am
In a week's time Corinna and I will be on board an airliner taking us across the Atlantic. There is so much to do, and not much time left in which to do it....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 25, 2010 11:53 am
Sadly we had a tragedy last night. An altercation between two fish belonging to Max, but being fostered here, an African Ctenopoma weeksi and an undescribed...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 24, 2010 11:03 am
It is a lovely spring day outside. The sun is shining, the birds are singinbg and I can hear disturbing noises from the other room which means that either...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 23, 2010 11:35 am
It is still mildly wintery (if that is not too much of an oxymoron) and to make things worse a wheel bearing is going on the Daihatsu. Never mind, these things...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 22, 2010 10:58 am
The dog decided to act unilaterally this morning. He sleeps on our bed, and usually wakes us up when he decides that it is time to get up. He has firm views on...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 21, 2010 12:26 pm
Sunday lunchtime and everything has gone back to normal. Yesterday afternoon Matt and Emma came over so I could edit their wedding video. They brought their...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 20, 2010 10:57 am
Another day dawns. It is still very wintery here with ice on the ground. This is what Februarys were like when I was a child, and it will be interesting to see...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 19, 2010 12:37 pm
Oll is off seeing his ladyfriend, ao it is just us three oldies here today. However, Emily, Jessica and David will be over imminently so that we can do a solid...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 18, 2010 1:39 pm
There are a lot of downsides to having a bipolar condition, but there is at least one wonderful upside. In the same way as you can feel horrible for no reason...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 17, 2010 1:17 pm
Spring is a little later this year. Each year since 2006 I have noted that during the week of Valentine's Day the flowers come out and the birds start to sing....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 16, 2010 7:37 pm
I haven't. Thanks for reminding me :) ... From: Emma J Osborne To: CFZ_Volunteers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: RE:...
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Emma J Osborne
angel40124
Feb 16, 2010 1:08 pm
Have you contacted lhouraii li yet regarding the wierd weekend? Emma Osborne Tel: 01237 424276 Mob: 07896607837 Looking for a No fuss, No Rush, and no...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 16, 2010 12:47 pm
Another day another dollar. Yesterday's filming was really quite succesful. We will be doing more on friday, God willing and weather permitting. It is also a...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 15, 2010 10:51 am
Today looks fair set to be a pleasant one, with Dave and Emily coming over later to road test the new camera with a whole afternoon's filming. Now we have got...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 14, 2010 1:17 pm
Goodness me what a day it has been. Good things: Fried Breakfast with hog's pudding, and Valentine soppiness with my dear wife. Bad thing: Managed to...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 13, 2010 12:16 pm
I sat up late last night with nephew David B-P talking WW stuff and listening to a David Bowie album I haven't played in years. A busy day here at CFZ towers,...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 12, 2010 12:27 pm
Bloody hell it was cold last night, but each day brings slightly more evidence that spring is just around the corner. There is more birdsong than ever, and...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 11, 2010 11:33 am
After a lovely day yesterday with Jules and Dougie the ghost hunters from Cornwall, we return to what passes for normality here at CFZ Mansions, with a full...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 10, 2010 11:49 am
The weather can't really make up its mind whether it is the end of winter or the beginning of spring. The sun is out, the plants are beginning to grow, and the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 9, 2010 11:46 am
It is quiet here without Richard, and as Oll is out for the day doing something medical, it is just us three old 'uns here doing our own inimitable thing and...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 8, 2010 10:04 am
Wakey wakey rise and shine. Richard and I are up bright and early this morning. I have a hospital appointment and he is going back to Exeter. Graham (who is...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 7, 2010 12:18 pm
After hours of messing around by me, Oll aned Graham, young David (17) managed to sort out the connection between our new Sony PD150 camera and the computer in...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 6, 2010 11:41 am
It really does look as if spring is just around the corner. Yesterday Graham and I were in the garden and he noted that the sun was actually warming for the...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 5, 2010 11:21 am
Its Friday!!! We have a new camera (our first broadcast quality one) donated by those jolly nice folk at Minnow films, who also donated a bottle of Jack...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 4, 2010 8:46 am
A slightly shorter set of bloggo posts than usual, but I have to be out and about embarrasingly early. Today looks set to be a momentous day as there is a lot...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 3, 2010 11:11 am
Finally, after a gap of five years, I have a passport again! There were so many hurdles upon which I stumbled trying to get one, that I was beginning to think...
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 2, 2010 12:59 pm
It is accounting day at the CFZ, and we have to pay all the utility bills that have accrued over the winter months. Crikey this place is expensive to heat....
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Jonathan Downes
cfzjon
Feb 1, 2010 10:35 am
Mildly disappointingly because for once I wanted to get it out on time, although it has been uploading all night, On the Track #29 is still processing on...
