I Nibbled Britain out of Jaffa Cakes

http://variationsonnormal.com/2012/03/13/i-nibbled-britain-out-of-jaffa-cakes/

It’s quite a big year for Britain with the olympics coming up soon. In celebration of this, McVitie’s challenged me to create some British themed creations using their Jaffa Cakes. I took my inspiration from friends who described their strange and unique methods of eating them. I started to nibble and pick away, going through 30 boxes of Jaffa Cakes to try to get shapes that fitted with my British themed ideas. One problem I had was when I got distracted by the radio and then looked back to see I had eaten the Loch Ness monster. See the video and pictures of what I came up with below.

http://variationsonnormal.com/2012/03/13/i-nibbled-britain-out-of-jaffa-cakes/

BIG CAT NEWS: Down the little wooden hills again...

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.

It takes a long time to do, and is a fairly tedious task, so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD

Wild cat 'big enough to pose a threat'
Luton Today
A DOG walker fears that a child may be put at risk after she came face to face with a mystery cougar that appears to be stalking Heath and Reach. On Saturday last week (March 3) Jane Banting was walking with her dog down a footpath off the Heath Road ...

These first two stories are basically the same, but I am including both, not just for the sake of completeness, but to illustrate how news stories get proliferated through chains of local publications. The sighting report is actually a particularly good one:

"The gait, body shape and tail convinced me that this was, in fact, a large wild cat of some description. I reported the sighting to the police when I got home and searched on the internet.

I couldn’t really find the animal I had seen until reading the paper just now. It appears that what I saw was a cougar. I had been misled because all the web images were of a light brown animal whereas the one I saw was dark brown and mottled in colour."

This perfectly illustrates the confusion that happens when witnesses find that the animal that they have seen is not an exact match for something that they have seen in the reference books.

Wild cat 'big enough to pose a threat'
Dunstable Today
Ahead of me I initially saw what I thought was a very large dark brown tabby cat. As I got closer I realised that the animal was much bigger, in fact bigger than my dog (a collie cross). “Thinking it was a dog I looked for the owner but then the animal ...

And then, also from Bedfordshire (which seems to be the new Gloucestershire in terms of big cat sightings) here is a rather neat little utility. I would like to have the same on our utilities....

See where big cats have been spotted in Beds
Luton Today
Following our story last week about the sighting near Barton, we've created a Big Cat Map where you can find out about other sightings of over-sized felines on the prowl. The creatures have been spotted near Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable, ...

HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Mirror 31.8.66

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/03/daily-mirror-31866.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 44BC Julius Caesar was murdered by most of the Roman senate.

And now the news:

Fears 'entire clans' may be wiped out with badger ...
Big jump in kiwi numbers
Extraordinary spate of Common dolphins stranding a...
Carnivores pick meats over sweets
Hundreds of owl nest boxes go up in Somerset
Birds' diverse traits survive Amazon fires
Forest visitors warned of moth threat to Scots pin...
Japan says 'sabotage' hurt whaling hunt
Spider silk spun into violin strings
New hope for rare butterfly
Restoring Wales's climate-saving peatlands
The gloves are off at RSPB reserves

Cry Havoc!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1ezMyRV9w

CFZ PEOPLE: Dave Braund-Phillips

I spoke to David earlier, and he sounds considerably better. If all goes well, he should be going home after his ultrasound scan this afternoon.

KARL SHUKER: Mystery Cats in Showbusiness

The entertainment world may not be the most likely realm in which to encounter real-life mystery cats, but a number of intriguing examples have cropped up here from time to time, including the following two cases - neither of which has been resolved so far.

Read on...

DALE DRINNON: Devil Monkeys, Vagrant Kangaroos, Freshwater Monkeys, Benny's Blog on period cartoons, Tyler Stone on mystery primates and more

New at Frontiers of Zoology:
Deconstructing the category of Devil Monkeys:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/devil-monkeys-demolished.html

An Overview On Vagrant Kangaroos:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/errant-kangaroos.html

And My Speculations on the Anatomy of Freshwater Monkeys:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-speculations-on-freshwater-monkey.html

Benny's blog has more Classic Hollywood as portrayed in Period Cartoons:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/mother-goose-goes-hollywood.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/mickeys-gala-premeir.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/hollywood-steps-out.html

Tyler Stone has some new Updates of his own, Partially dovetailing with Mine:
http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/03/short-note-on-out-of-place-animals.html

http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/03/archaic-homo-sapiens.html

http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/03/mystery-primate-omnibus-sort-of.html

-The last of which is the Dale-and-Tyler version for Mystery Primates of the World (Sort of)

Plus which, I have had a request for more information on Man-Eating Wels catfish from CFZ New Zealand and I shall probably have another blog posting on that forthcoming on the subject. Plus more on Giant Snakes.