2009: May

31st May: THE BIG THREE: For the final episode, CFZ Director Jon Downes, with some surprisingly low-key choices
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31st May: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Episode six - it just gets better and better
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31st May: FORTEAN: I'm so proud - the `Lost Tapes` Owlman episode is on YouTube
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31st May: CFZ ANIMALS: Yellow bellied girardinus up for grabs. Have you anything interesting to for swapsies?
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31st May: CFZ PEOPLE: Stuart Rickard has died.
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31st May: NATURAL HISTORY: The Painted Lady migration has reached Woolsery.
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31st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I really don't know what to make of this. If it is an essay by someone for whom English is not their first language then I guess it should be applauded. If not...OUCH!
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31st May: OPINION: Corinna is incensed by a recent news item
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31st May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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30th May: THE BIG THREE: Nearly at the end now. The penultimate entry is from our very own Richard Freeman
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30th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A few days ago we published a brief piece about the butterfly migration currently invading the UK. Here is more....
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30th May: FORTEAN: Paul Screeton gives us a classic bit of nastiness from the pages of Folklore Frontiers.
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: There have been a couple of interesting comments upon Neil's thought-provoking blog of this morning.
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold takes a deep breath and replies to those who have been sniping at him for months.
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30th May: CFZ ARTS: Richard goes to the Royal Academy to see an exhibition of Japanese monster paintings..
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Beautiful new species of Liberian butterfly
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30th May: THE CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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29th May: THE BIG THREE: Graham Inglis, Deputy Director of the CFZ puts pen to paper with some interesting results
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29th May: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Episode Five of the hottest new serial in the cryptoverse
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29th May: HOAXES: Lizzie tells about dead fairies in Derbyshire
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29th May: TERATOLOGY: The second albino dolphin of the year, courtesy of Aubrey in Toronto
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29th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: This has got to be the best headline of the year: "GWILYM GAMES: The Strange Case of the Mutant Toadman of Accrington" 'Nuff said!
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29th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead is back from Hungary with tales of reed wolves and butterfly swarms
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29th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: The cautionary tale of Eleanor Glanville
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29th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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28th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike H smelt something odd
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28th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold brings us all creatures great and weird
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28th May: CFZ: Graham hedges his bets and bets on hedges
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28th May: THE BIG THREE: Today it is time for Oll Lewis; ecologist, Welshman and pokemon fan extraordinaire!
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28th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New Loch Ness Monster encounter from a highly peculiar source
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28th May: CFZ: Finally Gladys and Cuthbert have a new home
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28th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New European newt (its rather cute)
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28th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A letter from Alan
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28th May: WALLAND FARM: The daily update from Jon's sister Kaye, includes guinea pigs and good news about the baby hedgehog.
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28th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th May: THE BIG THREE: Dale Drinnon - well actually its not. Dale took my idea and ran with it, and has produced a bloggo piece starting with his BOTTOM three animals that he reckons it is a waste of time looking for. Fascinating stuff! Click here for further details...
27th May: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Episode 4. Timothy surpasses himself in this cryingly funny serial (the nearest the bloggo has to a soap opera)
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27th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: More hedgehog capers - this time from Gavin the CFZ newshound
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27th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest updates from Emma, Heather, Lee and Matty
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27th May: HOAXES: We have been promising this for ages, but Glen's computer went belly-up before we were able to post the `work in progress` pictures of how he hoaxed the "Water Blackfella 2.0" pictures.
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27th May: HOAXES: Yesterday's mermaid mystery turned out to be a decade old, and the product of a rather talented if macabre artist..
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27th May: ANIMAL RESCUE ETC: Hedgehog updates from Walland Farm
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27th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: As always, Gavin L-W does a magnificent job keeping the newblog running, and Oll L brings us
Yesterday's News Today. They're both Welsh. Weird that isn't it?
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26th May: THE BIG THREE: It is the turn of Max Blake, the frighteningly young and intelligent whippersnapper who will probably be doing my job in a few years time once he has ousted me in some quasi-Stalinist coup.
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26th May: CFZ INDEXING PROJECT: A whole lot more stuff has been done, mostly courtesy Matty and Emma
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold has been lurking in the archives. He finds a strange sea creature and an uncanny eagle
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26th May: CFZ BLOGGO NEWS: More people are impressed with Timmo's saga of cats and stupidity than I had thought possible. Well done dude!
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26th May: HOAXES: Macabre pictures of a dead merperson are doing the rounds. Jon asks where, what and why?
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Painted ladies are on the move. Wayhay! I hear you lads shout with gusto. But we are talking about butterflies here boys...
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26th May: ANIMAL RESCUE: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Kaye tells us a tale of two barn owls..
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26th May: BLOGGO NEWS: Yesterday was a bit weird, Jon explains.
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26th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Exclusive pictures of mysterious carcass in Canary Islands.
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker has good news and bad news (and an exclusive peek at the cover for his new book).
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25th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Part two of Fleur's Internship Diary.
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25th May: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Timmy M's ongoing semi-fictional saga starts up in a new regular slot.
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25th May: TERATOLOGY: More on halved gynandromorphs..
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25th May: TERATOLOGY: Even more on halved gynandromorphs. This time from Fleur.
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25th May: ANIMAL RESCUE: We welcome Jon's quasi-sister onto the bloggo network with the debut posting of her recountings of the adventures and animals at Walland Farm. And it starts off with a bang - their rescue hedgehogs have had a baby!
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25th May: CFZ BLOGGO: New features on the CFZ Bloggo network..
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25th May: THE CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll brings puns and Yesterday's News Today.
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24th May: THE BIG THREE: Neil Arnold.Click here for further details...
24th May: TERATOLOGY: More halved gynandromorphs.
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24th May: ANIMAL RESCUE: The story of Llwynog (from Lizzie).
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24th May: CFZ PEOPLE: The sad tale of Stuart Rickard, his battle with cancer, and his battle with people who really should know better..
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24th May: NATURAL HISTORY: This rara avis (and no, I don't need someone to point out that butterflies aren't birds) has got to be the rarest and most sought after British butterfly ever!
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24th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at Nessie
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24th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Pat Delgado has died
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24th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis talks movies and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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23rd May: THE BIG THREE: Tony Lucas, doyen of New Zealand cryptozoology
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A giant salmon - not cryptozoological in itself, but the implications are very wide reaching click here for further details...
23rd May: CONSERVATION: Good news for the world's rarest deer
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23rd May: CFZ: Issue 46 of our journal is now complete
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY AND OTHER STUFF: It was a normal saturday morning at the CFZ when Jon sat down to do the bloggo. However, everything else kept getting in the way. However, he managed to give a plug to Michael Newton's new book, which has got to be a good thing
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23rd May: CFZ CULTURE: This Czech song about a swamp or lake monster is possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen click here for further details...
23rd May: TIM MATTHEWS:The Upper Minster Mystery (The story continues in a surprisingly Enid Blytonesque tone)
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23rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis rehabilitates Cat Stevens, and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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22nd May: THE BIG THREE: Richard Muirhead is presently in Hungary working with Butterfly Conservation. However, before he left he gave us his contribution to our popular new series..
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22nd May: POLITICS: Richard Freeman reports on planned legislation which, in a disgusting infringement of personal liberties, will effectively destroy events like the Weird Weekend and other lecture based community activities. I sometimes get complaints when I mention politics in these pages. Well this effects us all, and if you are the sort of person who objects to us bringing this to your notice, then you are not the soprt of person I want reading this bloggo.
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22nd May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The fourth trenche of mystery cat cuttings
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22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Liz Clancy finds some cryptozoological gems in an exhibition of Edwardian paintings Click here for further details...
22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tim M jumps on the cryptofiction bandwagon
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22nd May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Syd Henley with the tale of the pensioner and the fox
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22nd May: CFZ PEOPLE: Matthew Williams's mum has died. Our thoughts, good wishes, and prayers go out to him
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22nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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21st May: THE BIG THREE: Turn of our old mucker Nigel Wright to do exactly what one would have expected him to do
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21st May: THE WEIRD WEEKEND: Jon gets all sentimental
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21st May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: My grandmother came from an old Sussex family, and her father (my great-grandfather who died before WW1) was Lord of the Manor in an old House on the Downs. When I was a boy she told me how her family had always kept bees, and how when her younger brother (my Uncle Tim, who died in 1975) was born, the gardener took him out to be introduced to the bees, as their future master. Now Lizzy has a very similar story... Click here for further details...
21st May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Redders on the zooform creatures of Cannock Chase. Click here for further details...
21st May: CFZ ANIMALS: Its not all beer and skittles (or pies and pokemon) at the CFZ you know? Oll Lewis is on the track of some pheasants and they are proving very elusive
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21st May: TERATOLOGY: A white seal. Kipling's literary creation made flesh
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21st May: CFZ PEOPLE: Pat Delgado is ill
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21st May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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20th May: THE BIG THREE: Georgina Edwards with a poignant and funny posting
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20th May: TERATOLOGY/AMATEUR NATURALIST: A new face on the bloggo tells the story of a huge albino garter snake
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas brings us a follow up on the story of the moa feather offered for auction back in March
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20th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: More video of fowl play to amuse Jon
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20th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold's Crypto Stories From The Illustrated Police News, Part 4
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20th May: CFZ WEIRD WEEKEND '09... Jon hopes the 'Credit Crunch' won't crunch us
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20th May: ANIMAL WELFARE: Liz Clancy on honey bee populations
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20th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday’s News Today
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19th May: CFZ PRESS RELEASE: 2009 Weird Weekend
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19th May: MEDIA FOLLOW UP: more on the Owl Advert
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY BIG THREE: Michael Woodley - author, and star of last year's Weird Weekend
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19th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold's Crypto Stories From The Illustrated Police News, Part 3
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bloody hell, you learn something new every day. Komodo dragons are poisonous, and there is even a crypto twist to the story
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey with the strange tale of the Sumatran humming bird
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This is really odd. It seems to be a professional production, but who for, and why? Is it the story of an owl with luminous eyes or something else entirely?
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19th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll lewis takes his regular daily look at Yesterday's News Today
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18th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Naomi West's vulture tales
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18th May: THE BIG THREE: Alan Friswell makes his choices
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18th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: it's another mystery insect!
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18th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: another slew of Mystery Cats
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18th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker has got dem ol' Chinese Tiger Blues
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18th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: What on earth is this? Not a competition this time, because none of us actually know the answer
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18th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: David Marshall tell us about the latest show by the Ryedale Aquarist Society
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18th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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17th May: THE BIG THREE: It is time for Lindsay Selby aka Tabitka, a Loch Ness chick from back in the day, to take the challenge
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Well it made me laugh! A strange use of the most famous bigfoot imagery of all time
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17th May: NATURAL HISTORY: The divine Ms F is spending the summer as an intern at a museum in Exeter, and each week is doing us a diary detailing her adventures
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Welsh bigfoot? Could such a thing be? Probably not as Oll explains
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17th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold with the second half of his collection of peculiar fortean zoological stories from the Illustrated Police News
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17th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Emma Biddle and the saga of the spiny mice with the dogfood monikers (Warning, contains photos of almost stomach turning cuteness)
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17th May: CFZ MEDIA: Richard Holland brings us a sneak preview of the next Paranormal magazine, and a peculiar cartoon of the boy Freeman
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17th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Ken Gerhard (author of 'Big Bird) - interview
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16th May: THE BIG THREE: Scotty, the 'Wildlife Mysteries' blogger
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: RICHARD FREEMAN: Strange Tales from Herodotus, Part 4
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16th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Stuart Rickard of Woolsery is ill
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16th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Naomi West brings us a drama literally from her own backyard
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Scottie Westfall takes a hard look at Jon's chupacabra theories, and agrees with some of them
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16th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Just for Jon, the ridiculous tale of when turkeys attack. Shoukld they call this fowl play? Click here for further details...
16th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis recommends 80s AOR, and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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15th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Crypto Stories from the Illustrated Police News: Neil Arnold
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15th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Geordie Monsters: Mike Hallowell
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15th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Emma out of Hospital
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15th May: THE BIG THREE: Liz Clancy
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15th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Emma Biddle
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15th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jellyfish Japes
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15th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: A lot less bovver than a hover
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15th May: OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today
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14th May: CFZ PEOPLE: CFZ work continues as Jon is indisposed
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14th May: MONTAUK MONSTER II: And this one has a Penis
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14th May: THE BIG THREE: Mike Hallowell
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14th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The second tranche of big cat clippings
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14th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Darren Naish on land-dwelling Pacific islands crocodilians
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14th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis with Yesterday’s News Today
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot
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14th May: ANIMAL WELFARE: Riddle of the Namibia tilapia (endangered fish)
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13th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: the first tranche of big cat clippings
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13th May: FORTEANA: NEIL ARNOLD: The Living Mermaids
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13th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Stranded dolphins in Australia
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13th May: THE BIG THREE: Colin Higgins' favourite mystery animals
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13th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Karl Shuker reveals a side to his creativity that only a few of us had known about
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13th May: POLITICS: Is Jon's latest posting going to annoy as many people as his last one on the subject? Probably Click here for further details...
13th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two short Bigfoot films from Jordan Warner
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13th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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12th May: THE BIG THREE: Today it is the turn of Jon's beautiful and long-suffering wife Corinna
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Paul Vella reveals the lineup for the upcoming Texas Bigfoot Conference
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: CFZ Australia have another video report for us all - this time the mysterious marsupial lion Thylacoleo
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12th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Each week Jan Edwards shows us the latest creature to come into her animal sanctuary, and asks us to identify it. Here we have last week's conundrum revealed
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mysterious primate skull unearthed in Texas
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12th May: ANIMAL ATTACKS: Richard Freeman on attacks on people by African Rock Pythons
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12th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Something from the pagest of a bird folklore book - in the CFZ garden
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12th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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11th May: THE BIG THREE: Today it is the turn of the lovely Fleur Fulcher
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Paul Vella brings us news of a new bigfoot conference celebrating the Paterson/Gimlin film Click here for further details...
11th May: CFZ INDEXING PROJECT: Heather, Lee and Jon have been busy - the latest completed bits of the Indexing Project are online
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11th May: CFZ PEOPLE: We are recruiting again. Are you foolish enough to join the CFZ family?
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker brings us the third part of his look at the cryptozoology of South America Click here for further details...
11th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The frog-eating spider of Epping Forest
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11th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Nobby the Queen of Wildwoods
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We apologise to Tony Lucas
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11th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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10th May: THE BIG THREE: Our new series kicks off with a contribution from Glen Vaudrey...
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10th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold tells an unsavoury tale of circuses, wolves and slaughtermen
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: CFZ Australia with a video presentation on the Night Parrot
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The day a walrus turned up in Suffolk. But what day was it?
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (loosely, at any rate): Forests of Mystery gets better and better. But what is it?
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A guide to the mystery animals of New Zealand
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (loosely, at any rate): An EC-wide competition to design an animal of the future
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10th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today, with a side order of silliness (and a movie recommendation)
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9th May: CFZ ARCHIVES: Finally, a picture I took in 1994, and intended as part of The Owlman and Others then lost. Finally it has been found, scanned and posted. Was it worth the wait? Almost certainly not, but it is a saturday evening and it brings back fond memories for Jon
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is this a shameless plug for Tim the Yowie Man's upcoming appearance at the Weird Weekend? Of course not. We are a serious scientific organisation here, and this video features a cute blonde chick and a horrific car crash. Wayhay!!!..
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two college boys stopping for a crafty fag (that means something different in the UK, guys, so don't get all high and mighty on me) find a mysterious footprint. Is it from a big cat? Probably not, but it is interesting enough to share with you..
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9th May: CFZ PRESS: I suppose that I should really have come up with a facile excuse for why I didn't do this last weekend, but the sad truth is that I forgot..
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9th May: POLITICS: Proof that I am not prejudiced against Republican Politicians. It is capitalist scum that I find beyond the pale, and this includes the vast majority of politicians whatever creed they are. And unless the world news reporting has been far more biased than even I would have thought possible Democrat Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is capitalist scum who puts money before morals, and completely beyond the pale.
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9th May: THE BIG THREE: Only 36 hours to go. C'mon guys, put pen to paper
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9th May: CFZ ARTS: A Canadian whale sculptor - and the guy is wonderful!
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9th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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8th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The final trenche of (more eccentric than usual) folklore archives
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8th May: CFZ: "You've heard of the dog star, now here is the cat star?" A misquote from who? The first person to tell me will win a prize, and in the meantime, here is a recollection of the day that the three CFZ stalwarts shared a cage with five pumas
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8th May: CFZtv: Some pictures from the latest trenche of filming Emily and the Big Cats
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8th May: CFZ ANIMALS: We are seriously considering buying a pair of these. Should we?
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Iriomote, a tiny Japanese island nearer to Formosa than Japan, is already known to be home to the world's most primitive cat. But could another - leopard sized - species live there?
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8th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: The latest in Jan Edwards's ongoing series of "What is it?" conundra
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bonfire of the Manatees. What about the monster of Chesapeake Bay?
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8th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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7th May: ZOOLOGY: The contentious sale of the Charles Rothschild butterfly collection by Harrow School has been cancelled. Could it have anything to do with the fuss that we made about the sale when it was first announced? Probably not!
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7th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Giant snakes and other odd animals at Cannck Chase in Staffordshire. The reports continue as Nick Redfern tells us this evening
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7th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jan Edwards reveals the answer to her last conundrum.... its a baby rabbit
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7th May: CFZ ANIMALS: Pictures of our breeding cockroaches, an identification, and a pointless Monty Python quote (if a Monty Python quote can ever be pointless)
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7th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman, wholesome as ever, brings us some interesting, though highly unpleasant, accounts of people eaten alive by rats
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7th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the latest developments in the saga of the tiny Homo florisiensis which the media have insisted on dubbing `hobbits`
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7th May: TERATOLOGY: The boy Freeman has found another trenche of recent lusus naturae
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7th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New recruit to the bloggo team Paul Vella marks the sad passing of a major figure in bigfoot research
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6th May: CFZ ANIMALS: We have managed to breed one of our species of tropical cockroach. But which one?
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6th May: CONSERVATION: The Prince of Wales has launched a major new conservation initiative. As always, we are on the same side.
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard visits the works of Herodotus for the third time.
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard visits the works of Herodotus for the second time.
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We meet a new friend, a Brazilian dude with a wealth of information about anacondas.
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6th May: TERATOLOGY: Matt Osborne comes up with extraordinary pictures of a partial albino blackbird.
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6th May: CFZtv: Calling all animators. Jon needs some help with the new movie.
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6th May: ANIMAL RESCUE: A sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica.
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6th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis talks nonsense and brings us Yeesterday's News Today.
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker with the second part of his exploration of South American cryptozoology.
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell with more on the Geordie Lizardman.
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the unlikely story of the unlikely English Channel sea monsters. Dr Dan turns detective.Click here for further details...
5th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today .
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Matching Mole - possibly the most obscure Japanese extant species
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: When is a rattlesnake not a rattlesnake?
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4th May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jon eats humble pie and shows a video of a night heron
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4th May: THE CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The fourth trenche of folklore archives
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two questions, and a couple of videos about one of the world's most peculiar waterfowl. Is this an anhinga? And what what an anhinga doing in Exminster Marshes, South Devon?
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: One from the archives - could the fabled tatzelwurm be an undiscovered species of fish?
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4th May: CFZ INDEXING PROJECT: It is underway, and you can see the first results. But we still need more volunteers. Come and join in the fun! Well, it's not fun exactly. It's actually rather tedious, but it is worthwhile..
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4th May: HEALTH ALERT: Matthew Osborne, the CFZ health and safety and first aid dude, brings us a top tip as to how to avoid swine flu.
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Your last chance to contribute to `The Big Three`
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4th May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: On this slightly overcast Bank Holiday Monday, young Oliver brings us Yesterday's News Today
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3rd May: WEIRD WEEKEND: Tim the Yowie Man has just been announced as one of the headliners for this year's event
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3rd May: BIGFOOT: Stunning new footage which is unlike anything we have seen before. A must see.
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3rd May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: After the weird debacle surrounding the Quatari goblin piccie, Nicky R remembers another strange humanoid hoax.
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3rd May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The third trenche of folklore archives from the CFZ Treasure Trove.
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3rd May: WEIRD WEEKEND: The provisional schedule for this year's CFZ conference is published. But there are two mystery guests. Who are they?
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3rd May: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jan Edwards sets another conundrum, and this time I am not even guessing..
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern interviews Richard about dragons and other stuff
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman takes a look at some recent hoaxes
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold brings us the intriguing tale of the one that got away..
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3rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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2nd May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: The answer to Jan's conundrum of yesterday
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2nd May: OUT OF PLACE ANIMALS: Why is it called the `Lazarus Lizard` when it has nothing to do with rising from the dead? I think you had better find out...
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2nd May: TERATOLOGY: Why is Dan Holdsworth such a clever bugger?
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2nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Dear me, Oll has a distressing fondness for Stadium Rock AOR, but we will forgive him because he has brought us Yesterday's News Today
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1st May: CFZ: Bloody hell, haven't we done well? The bloggo reached its thousandth post
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1st May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: New blogger Georgina Edwards (Fleur's mum) muses on foxes and badgers, and the social mores surrounding them
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1st May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: A look at the courtship of the Brook Lamprey - video from YouTube takes Jon on a trip down memory lane
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1st May: ANIMAL RESCUE: Dear Beth Tyler-King has achieved a modicum of recognition for her work running Hartland Wildlife Rescue
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1st May: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Its Jan Edwards, and its some sort of small waterbird. But what is it? Jan has set us an intriguing conundrum.
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1st May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: There's a bloke living wild in Wales. Yes, I know this sounds like the beginning of a song by John Otway, but its true. Is he a wodewose, a homeless vagrant who has slipped through the increasingly inept safety nets of the system? Or is he just some geezer who wants some peace and quiet? Either way there are some intriguing paralells with older wildman reports, as Nicky R finds out..
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1st May: TERATOLOGY: A peculiar mutated parakeet from New Zealand. I want one..
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