CONGRATULATIONS OLIVIA PART TWO

Like a diligent stepfather I sat down for two hours starting just after 2:00 to watch the live feed of Olivia's graduation, and was entertained by a short set by veteran avant-sax player Lol Coxhill, who was getting an honorary doctorate. I loved it. I bet most of the audience hated it. However, about 90 minutes in came the bit I had been waiting for, and in true CFZ fashion I bootlegged it...

BUGFEST: BLOODY BUSY

KARA WADHAM WRITES: For those of you intending to book a table on the 8th August event, please do so quickly.

We have almost run out of space and it is going to be busy. We have had well over 1000 hits on the website in the last couple of weeks and the publicity campaign has only just started!

I hope you will be able to support us. Whether you are a trader or individual, we will welcome you.

Kara


BUGFEST 4
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THE NZ BEACH BODY

A few days ago we posted some pictures sent to us by Tony Lucas of a body on a beach in New Zealand, and included the portentous words that "in our opinion it was no placental mammal known to science". We were hoping that the marching morons of t'internet (or `teh internetz` as it is more widely known to these people) would jump upon the bandwagon and start shouting nonsense about alien bodies and Government conspiracies.

True, a few did just that, but most of you (golly, what sensible and erudite readers we have) correctly noted that it was the body of an oppossum. Something both Tony and we had agreed on before we posted it. The clue was in our line about PLACENTAL mammals.

However, this is a second body from another NZ beach, and we include it because it is bright blue. It is probably another opposum, but this time we honestly do not know....

CFZ PEOPLE: Welcome back Gavin

Gavin Lloyd Wilson, our newshound is back. Welcome back dude, we have missed you. In the past six weeks or so your place was ably filled by my darling wife and her able assistant who really defines the term `newshound`.

It is good to have you back, Gavin....

CFZ PEOPLE: Well Done Olivia

Today is one of those days of mixed pride and sadness for a stepfather. Olivia, my dear, beautiful, loveable, and occasionally completely ridiculous step-daughter #2 is graduating from the University of Portsmouth.

However, quite understandably, there are only limited numbers of tickets per head available, and so Corinna and Olivia's father are in Portsmouth, while I will stay at home and cheer from the comfort of my study! However, I cannot tell you all how much I wish that I could have been there in person.

I shall be watching on the link below from 2:30

http://www.port.ac.uk/graduationlive/

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

Well, I’m off on a trip to the bright lights of Plymouth for a few days, but don’t panic as I’m sure Jon has somebody lined up to fill in for my absence so you’ll still get the links to the latest news at least and who knows, maybe even better quality puns. Before I go, though, it’s Friday and Friday means it’s time for your Friday fact:

Charles Hawtrey, of Carry On movie fame, set the world record for longest distance travelled by pogo stick without falling off in 1972. The distance he travelled was 8.921 KM and remains unbeaten to this day. Sadly Hawtrey went missing on the slopes of Mount Everest in 1988 when, at the age of 73, he attempted to set another daredevil pogo record by being the first man to pogo solo to the summit of Mount Everest. His large collection of brass bedsteads, which he had collected his entire life, were acquired by a national lottery grant in 2006 and form the nucleus of the world famous Charles Hawtrey memorial collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London along with a gold plated pogo stick that was donated to him by the Queen.

And now the news:

Final stage in red kite project
Orphaned albino wallaby needs a name
Do you own your cat or does your cat own you?
Schoolgirl nets 9ft monster fish
Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
Arctic sea full of huge blobs of floating 'goo'
Serial penguin killer on the loose
Burmese pythons thrive in Florida Everglades
Watch the birdie
Three "killer" cougars killed near Canadian town
Reintroduced Chinese alligators now multiplying in the wild in China

Lets hope the species can make a snappy comeback.

WEIRD PEPPERED MOTH

FROM THE LATEST ENTOMOLOGICAL LIVESTOCK GROUP NEWSLETTER:

Dear Ed.,

I thought members may be interested in a male peppered moth I caught in my garden in June. Has anyone else ever come across one like it before?

Alan Deacon.