PINE MARTEN SIGHTINGS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk/2012/05/have-you-spotted-a-pine-marten.shtml?postid=112746721#comment_112746721

Jon Downes writes...

I note that the BBC are still perpetuating the falsehood that the pine marten is colonising England and Wales from its stronghold in Scotland. It is now known that it never died out in either England or Wales - something I predicted in my 1996 book The Smaller Mystery Carnivores of the Westcountry.

ORANG PENDEK ART EXHIBITION

Artist and sculptress Adele Morse is presenting an exhibition of her work based on the orang-pendek and the CFZ’s continuing search for the creature.

Adele’s work will be on display at the Royal Academy of Arts and is open from June 20th to July 1st. She is also displaying her work in Waterstone’s Bookshop in Piccadilly Circus.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/summer-2012/ra-schools-show-in-a-class-of-their-own,369,RAMA.html

Adele writes of her work...

Adele Morse’s work reaches out of the confines of traditional categories of art and attempts to drag the world back into the gallery via a research based practice. An investigation into such subjects as evolution, hierarchical thinking, anthropology, scientific debates/advances and cryptozoology reoccur through this expansive practice. Working with a broad spectrum of experts and enthusiasts she endeavours to take on various roles and positions.

NICK REDFERN ON LITTLEFOOT

We’ve all heard about the antics of Bigfoot, but what about Littlefoot? Certainly, it’s an undeniable fact that many reports emanating from Britain tell of encounters with not just large and lumbering, hairy entities, but with distinctly smaller critters, too. Centuries-old Welsh folklore, for example, tells of the Bwbach, an approximately three foot tall, hair-covered humanoid perceived by the folk of that era as a brownie or nymph.

Read on...

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

• The Flatwoods Monster Speaks — An audio-recording of Ivan T. Sanderson...
• The Little Bigfoot — Man-beasts come in all shapes and sizes...
• Reviewing a Boggy Creek Gig — What Nick did at the weekend...
• Slothsquatch? — A thought-provoking new theory...

From CFZ Australia:

• Magnetic Island's panther is back — “There was something hefty in the branches..."
• Sabrina's island cat sighting puzzling — More on the previous item...

From CFZ Canada:

• Metrosaurus - Toronto Ontario — A 19th century sea monster...

Graham's Gonzo Blog updates

In Jon's absence, Graham's seated at the Gonzo Mixing Desk!

Being something of a Can fan - my fav album of theirs is "Can Landed" - I found one of these news items of particular interest....

First up, though, a track-by-track review of a Troy Donockley compilation CD:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/link-troy-donockley-cd-review.html

A peculiar review of Genre Peak's album "Redux":
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/link-peculiar-review-of-genre-peak.html

Can - three-CD box set of previously unreleased Can material:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/canned-surprise.html

Gonzo reviewer Davey C's careful preparations for the recent Hawkwind gig in Stamford:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/i-think-that-like-me-you-should-be.html

Video: Comus performing "Out of the Coma" in Helsinki:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/comus-out-of-coma.html

AUBURN: Another slice of live 'wobblecam' - from the "Indian Summer" album:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/auburn-another-slice-of-live-wobblecam.html

I'm amused that Liz Lenten applies the term 'wobblecam' to that Auburn video. I wonder what on earth she'd think of some of my mosh-pit footage of Hawkwind! The mind boggles.

Anyway, Cheers for now.
Graham.

HAUNTED SKIES: Alien spies?

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/sun-21167.html

An absolutely exquisite small pearl-bordered fritillary, ab. alba.

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5739&start=140

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2002 the asteroid 2002 NM missed hitting the Earth by 121,000 km, about one third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

And now the news:

• Is Bigfoot Possibly an Alien Entity?
• Male Spider Ditches Penis, Gains Fighting Power
• Woolly Mammoth Extinction Has Lessons for Modern C...
• Climate change will boost number of West's wildfir...
• Violent Head-Butting Discovered in Giant Reef Fish...
• Say hi to what could soon be the biggest domestic ...
• Newfoundland man charged with killing polar bear
• Rare albino crow is a real hoot as a house guest
• Aussie coroner: Mom's suspicious tale was true -- ...
• Gorilla communication: mums use 'baby talk' gestur...

What's the difference between Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck? When they were both stuck with the task of stopping a meteor from destroying the Earth, one of them cried, and the other saved the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKZRTRnAIM