Monday, April 08, 2013
SHERI MYLER: Day 2
Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...
The majority of the
day, approximately nine hours solid, consisted of type-setting the Eberhart
book. “D” and “G” were the two largest sections, so were naturally delegated to
me. (Cheeky Little Ratbag JD) We got some way through “I” before putting this task to bed for the night.
This was followed by a
two and a half hour lecture on cryptozoology. This included the various types
of mystery hominids (Orang-pendek, Yeti, Bigfoot and Almasty), which cryptids
we think are most likely to exist and why, and the running abilities of
different types of monitor lizards as a theoretical basis for the reports of
Megalania.
After the lecture was
concluded, the cat hunt was very short as there was very little petrol and
nobody fancied walking home in the dead of night. A quick skip through the
woods and I was back at my B&B. when I called the talk a “lecture”, it was
as formal a lecture as one can have with a brew in one hand and a dog using the
other as a pillow.
THE LATEST ON THE SOUTH PARK BIG CAT
Ever since I started the Centre for Fortean Zoology 21 long years ago, I have always insisted that our watchword is not to either prove or disprove theories about mystery animals. Our job is to find out the truth. Because in the end, nothing else matters.
The week before last, whilst Danish zoologist Lars Thomas and his two sons were staying with us, Lars heard a remarkable story from a man in the village. Lars was out walking by the community centre where we hold the Weird Weekend, on his first morning in the village, when a bloke in a small red car pulled up beside him, and asked whether he was anything to do with the Weird Weekend. When he replied in the affirmative, the man told him that on the previous Sunday night he had seen what appeared to be a large cat walking along the road, the community centre to the small estate which always amuses my visitors when I tell have in mind that it is called South Park.Lars went straight to the hedgerow where his new friend had reported seeing the mystery animal, and took some hair samples. They went back to Denmark with him, and today he wrote to me:
Have been through the hairs from the bush at the road across from the community centre - nothing exciting I'm afraid. Two hairs from a sheep - no surprise there, as there were sheep in the field next to it, and 6 assorted hairs from a dog.
But at least we checked!
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Beasts on the Doorstep — Strange creatures in non-exotic locations...
- National Geographic and the European Wildman — A new article on wildmen from a mainstream website...
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
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. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.Rare Tundra Swans spotted on Bonnechere River
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN STARTS DOING THINGS AFRESH
The synchronicity gets stranger. For many
years we had a run up by the chickens. It contained two rabbits - Maureen and
Pringle. A year or so ago we rehomed them with Kelsey - the little girl of an
old friend of mine. Yesterday, a day after our chickens fell prey to a marauding
fox, Kelsey ran indoors to tell her mother that there was a badger in their
rabbit run! Sad to say, although they extricated the badger (which ran away
safely) the rabbits did not survive. Very sad. I would like to say a big 'thank
you' to Judy Dyble, for her kind message re. the chickens on
saturday...
Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World
Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from The
Move
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-fire-brigade-move.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-fire-brigade-move.html
We have got hold of a copy of the forthcoming album
by Genre Peak
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-music-from-genre-peak.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-music-from-genre-peak.html
Bridget St John remembers Kevin Ayers
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/bridget-st-john-remembers-kevin-ayers.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/bridget-st-john-remembers-kevin-ayers.html
Steve Howe interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/link-steve-howe-discusses-this-summers.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/link-steve-howe-discusses-this-summers.html
Cris Roversi review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/cris-roversi-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/cris-roversi-review.html
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably 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 the orange cats?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1944 the actor Hywell Bennet was born. Bennet is best known for playing
mostly gangsters and the occasional detective in TV shows but his most memorable
role was as Mr Croup in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere TV series.
And now
the news:
Neverwhere does very well for a budget of about
10p and is worth seeking out: