Mother is 89 today. Happy Birthday
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A mystery white cat in Lincolnshire
Hi dudes,
I recently bought a book from the Oxfam Online Shop titled Lincolnshire
Folklore by Ethel H.Rudkin , ( 1936) which is packed full of folklore
curiosities, including many animal references. One which caught my beady eye was
the Commonpiece cat, at Gunthorpe, Lincolnshire (on pages 30 -31).
"Some three hundred yards from the hamlet of Gunthorpe, on the Trentside
road leading to West Stockwith, is an opening in the bank, the end of a
lane,known as Commonpiece Lane. This spot iss aid to be haunted by a species of
white cat;and those who have seen it say it is of abnormal size. This apparition
was quite common forty or fifty years ago. ( i.e c. 1880s). I remember when I
was a boy returning from Stockwith one Sunday evening in late September, and
being overtaken by Mr Joe Jenkins, a local Wesleyan preacher...he asked me if
the cat had been seen lately? or if I had seen it.I had not, but asked him,
"Have you sen it, Mr Jenkins?" and he replied, "Scores of times!" it always
crosses the road from the river and runs through the opening in the bank; it is
white, and nearly as large as a pig." (The story then goes on to describe how a
man was walking down the same road on a snowy night when he saw the cat and
aimed a kick at it, whereupon it vanished. He returned the next morning and saw
his own footprints but not the spoor of the cat!)
"It is known that human bones lie buried beneath the bank just here, for
about seventy years ago some farm-labourers unearthed a skeleton whilst earthing
up a pie of potatoes (sic). The bones were reburied. Nothing is known as to the
identity of this skeleton, whether it is the body of some person who had met
with foul play , or someone who had been found drowned, and the body buried
near the place where the body was discovered - a common practice years ago. (
Per C.K.S. Gunthorpe.)
Source: Lincolnshire Folklore Ethel H.Rudkin Gainsborough Beltons,
Church St 1936
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Tennessee Bigfoot
Michael
writes "Enjoy this documentary film as we journey on a cross country road trip
that raises more deep questions than it provides answers.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS IN THE DRIVING SEAT
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Today is Mother's 89th birthday, and she appears to be having a lovely
time. She has asked me to thank everyone who has set their good wishes. This
afternoon Charlotte comes over for the playthrough of OTT and later there will
be cake and ice cream. I have just bitten the bullet and bought 1m 6f Gambusia
affinis to be delivered on Friday. Iam extremely nervous, but very excited. I
sincerely hope that the male will have already put his pair of retractable
hemipenes to use and that the feales will be pregnant already. I am very nervous
about having only one male.
Watch this space.
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But for now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: James Brown - Get up o...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GONZO PEOPLE: Joan James (aka Mother)
LEONARD COHEN AT GONZO
RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS
YES NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #290
THE OVERNITE SENSATION ISSUE
We continue to trawl the counterculture with this particularly groovy
issue, in which Jon talks to Frank Zappa’s younger sister about her book, her
brother and other things, Jeremy goes to see Wreckless Eric, Doug goes to see
Echo and the Bunnymen, Alan goes to see Woody Pines, Graham riffs on Hawkwind,
Jon writes about Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, and there is loadsa other
stuff as well ….
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil
Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo and Kev Rowlands AND the
irrepressible Corinna . There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and tiger quolls who are havinga little snooze (OK, nothing to do
with small dasyurids who are a little sleepy, but I got carried away with things
that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's
ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
This issue features:
Pink Floyd, Nick Mason, Ringo Starr, Jon Anderson, Damon Albarn, Prince,
Yes, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jalaluddin Mansur
Nuriddin, Marc Ogeret, Robert Maksymilian Brylewski (also known as. Afa and
Robin Goldroker), Edward Harrington (aka Eddy Clearwater), Razan Ashraf Abdul
Qadir al-Najjar, Sinan Sakic, Demba Nabé, Ralph Santolla, Brian Browne, Eliza
Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio,
Patrice Zappa, Frank Zappa, Doug Harr, Echo and the Bunnymen, Alan Dearling,
Woody Pines, Jeremy Smith, Wreckless Eric, Kev Rowland, Sex Dumpster, Soniq
Theater, Soul Doubt, Umphrey's Mcgee, Usurpress, Voidhanger, Alghazanth, Animal
Drive, Besvarjelsen, Chris Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin
Springett, The Durrells, Nick van der Leek
And the last few issues are:
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she
squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown
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assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly
mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
mention Archie and the Cats?
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
Well, everything, actually!
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.
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AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
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