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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Saturday, January 09, 2010

DAVEY CURTIS: As The Motors would say....Airport wooo woooo!

Dear Jon,

As you may recall, a young Belarusian lady called Tatyana was spending her Christmas holidays with us. On her return home she was due to fly first to Gatwick then on back home to Minsk at 6.30 in the morning. Those plucky Northumbrian ground staff cleared the snow from the runways of Newcastle in below-freezing conditions with their bare hands and their sleeves rolled up with nothing to keep them warm but the glow of their Embassy Regal king size tabs. Alas, the same could not be said for their southern shandy-drinking counter-parts! It seems that a little smattering of snow is not condusive to mincing about as the snow may wet their crushed velvet uniforms and damage their patent leather shoes so all flights out of Gatwick are cancelled! It seems Tatyana will have to put up with all that Seaham-on-Sea has to offer for a little while longer.

Regards

Davy C

P.S

After Redfern's little quip a while ago about Orb spiders, I feel justified in retaliation now and can safely say that if Redders worked at an Airport... it would, indeed, be Gatwick!

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