MANY THANKS TO KAREN GENSHEIMER

Karen Gensheimer is kind enough to be a regular benefactor of the CFZ. On Sunday she was sweet enough to give us a donation of $100, which is going straight into the CFZ Fighting Fund....


Thank you, my dear.

SIMON REAMES SENT THIS GIANT JELLYFISH VIDEO

While Graham and I were in Puerto Rico back in 1997, we received an email from an Exeter Schoolboy caled Simon, who had been following our exploits. He has been a friend of the CFZ (and mine in particular) ever since, and yesterday he sent us this giant jellyfish video, knowing that such things are grist to our mill..

ANOTHER PIECE OF VINTAGE STRANGENESS FROM THE BOY MUIRHEAD

WEIRD BEAST OF PREY
Wellington Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 11
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GERALD DURRELL ON THE RADIO FOR A FEW MORE DAYS

My Family and Other Animals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s7vql


Gerald Durrell's classic comic tale, dramatised in two parts by Janys Chambers
Programmes:
on BBC iPlayer (2)
coming up (1)
Previous programmes:
by year (2)

BABY HEDGEHOG EATING A SAUSAGE

I get a gloriously disparate collection of photographs sent to me by various members of the CFZ family. These were sent by John and Dawn of the Haunted Skies Project and show a baby hedgehog showing a very unhoglike preference in foodstuffs. The photographs were taken at Exhall, Warwickshire, near a cricket club known locally as 'Titties Hill' (This is the real name not a joke). A joke Mr Hanson? Non Comprende Senor...
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OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1752 the British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calender and 'lost' 11 days when the 14th of September followed on from the 2nd.
And now, the news:

New Gecko Species Identified in West African Rain ...
Giant Sharks Swim Onto Species Watch List
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to try to remove gr...
Bright pink grasshopper spotted in Buckinghamshire...

Gotta crawl, gotta crawl... To the ugly bug ball!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2_xXMelR8

CARL PORTMAN: Check mate?

Hello Jon,

Here’s one for the blog...

As a serious chess player since I was a kid I am never surprised at the machinations at FIDE. To you and me that’s the Fédération Internationale des Échecs the governing body of the game. There’s currently a huge battle for supremacy and the FIDE Precidency. The current and possibly outgoing incumbent is a man called Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from a faraway place called Kalmyk in the USSR. A strange man indeed, and a multi-millionaire to boot. No one really knows how he got his money or even much about the man himself. Trust me, this is a major political position in the chess world – THE position in fact.

So why are you interested? Well, he has gone on record as saying that he takes his advice from meetings with yellow-suited aliens who predict future developments for him on planet earth. You knew that chess was weird, didn’t you?

Mr Ilyumzhinov, 48, the head of the south-western Russian region of Kalmykia, appeared on a Russian talk show on April 26, and went over his evening with aliens.

He said he saw a "semi-transparent half tube" spaceship on his balcony. He then entered it and met "human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits", The Moscow Times reported.

"I am often asked which language I used to talk to them. Perhaps it was on a level of the exchange of the ideas," he told the television programme host.

He had told The Guardian the aliens took him to "some kind of star".

"They put a spacesuit on me, told me many things and showed me around. They wanted to demonstrate that UFOs do exist."

His autobiography including chapter titles such as ‘without me the people are incomplete’ and ‘It only takes two weeks to have a man killed’.

Chess is the oldest war game but nasty things happen away from the board too. Watch this space....