UPDATE

I think that the computer issues are finally sorted. Between them Dave B-P and Graham managed to sort out the weird issues that remained, and Oll and I finally got the e-mails operational. So now all we have to do, is to catch up with lost time. We are the best part of a week behind schedule, but I hope that we will soon make that back...

ROBERT SCHNECK: Escaped Tigger

I have always felt most comfortable among the Chinese. Part of it is, I think, their genius for unselfconscious surrealism.

Chengdu Zoo rehearses escaped tiger response June 2nd, Sichuan Chengdu Zoo, a tranquilized tiger being carried away by workers, as a caged Chinese tiger watches through the glass. That day, the Chengdu Zoo conducted a escaped dangerous animal training drill/exercise. The training exercise simulated 2 Siberian Tigers escaping from their cages, with zoo workers working together with forestry police conducting an emergency response.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/chengdu-zoo-escaped-tiger-training-drill.html

HAUNTED SKIES: Frank Marshall of BUFORA and the BUFORA conference details

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/06/frank-marshall-of-bufora-and-conference.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day 1949 George Orwell's novel 1984 was first published.
And now the news, expertly compiled by Gavin Wilson:

Birch Mouse Ancestor Discovered in Inner Mongolia ...
Fossil of Giant Ancient Sea Predator Discovered
Giant water bug photographed devouring baby turtle...
Parakeets guilty of intimidating garden birds - st...

A parrot singing James Brown songs; it doesn't get better than this, folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azeo6DglZcY