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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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Monday, March 15, 2010

It has been a very long day....

Since Jon and Corinna departed for the Texas Expedition (which I hope you have all been reading about over on their blog) I have tried to make sure my daily blogs were interesting enough so that Myrtle Cottage was not swamped with letters of complaint so that Graham, Oll, Biggles, and all the other animals thought they'd been snowed in, and the bosses returned to Postman Pat's worst nightmare.

Unfortunately, today I have run out of ideas. I'm sure I'll be back on top form again tomorrow but for today the only vaguely on-topic thing I can tell you is that I realised at about 2.30pm yesterday afternoon that I hadn't seen a particular friend in more than a year when I started talking to her in the pub about the CFZ and she didn't know what I was going on about. It really has only been around a year since I've been involved in our marvellous organisation but it feels like years - in a good way!

To end on a much more sobering note, however, any delusions I had of grandeur or popularity were shattered this evening when, over-hearing me mention a friend, my two-year-old nephew replied, shocked: "Friends! Lizzy has no friends!"

Out of the mouths of babes....

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