A bit of a blow - hold onto your hats

And your coats, your dogs and if possible something nailed down, to say it's rather blustery out there is somewhat of an understatement. We've just seen a dustbin go flying past the window, the field in front of the office is full bits of debris from the building plot down the road, torn off tree, out of bins, I'm sure you can imagine. Very few birds around, they're all wedged in somewhere out of the gale. But at least the wind is drying up the very wet ground. We have the first shoots from the bulbs are beginning to show above the ground, some of the shrubs have little green tips and the cobnuts have small catkins just waiting for some sun and warmth to burst open, first signs of spring all around – we must get the apple trees and roses pruning finished before it's too late.

But here in the snug, cosy office (a little too warm if we're honest, the wind is fair making the woodstove roar away!) we've been beavering away and this week's edition of CJS is now printing. It is 14 sides this week including lots of voluntary posts as we try to catch up on the backlog of those previously put on hold to allow space for the paid posts to be published. There are 95 new paid posts plus a few re-ads, 50 of the jobs were sent direct to CJS from the employer.

Quick word of warning. Our web hosts are migrating from one server to another over the weekend and this may disrupt service to the website and possibly emails. If you email us and don’t get a reply by the end of Monday please contact us as it may have got stuck.

Second CJS Weekly of 2008 now printing.

It's another large one, 14 sides plus a further three of events. There are 98 new paid posts of which 55 came direct to CJS. The first few editions in January are always large and we leave out many voluntary posts so there's a bit of back log; these will all be online from Monday.

The garden, the moors, the roads are all awash after the week's rain and more to come over the weekend apparently. As part of the garden outside the office is in chaos (a major redesign / landscaping project was ongoing) there are several small to medium sized pools just right for Labrador to 'plodge' in, all we need are a few ducks…

It's as if we've never been away.

The first Friday deadline for CJS Weekly rolls around and it's 'all hands on deck' to get everything done and to the printers in time to have the paper copies ready to be posted, especially as our post collection is now first thing on Saturday.

So now the printers are clattering away churning out a small paper mountain. This week's edition is 21 sides long containing 192 new paid posts of which 143 came direct to CJS. There's a handful of volunteer posts but due the large size we've not been able to include all of the ads (for vols) received this week but they will all be in CJS Weekly well before their closing dates and all those already received will be online from Monday.

Happy January

Hit the ground running – straight into a marathon with a sprint finish!

A nine page monthly with lots of colour and two more pages of events, all set, printed and dispatched by 7pm yesterday. It's already online in full and the paper copies should be landing on your desks on Thursday. [click here]

Now then, back to the monster Weekly, already 14 pages and it's only Wednesday morning.

Happy New Year.

Well, holidays are over, the tree is waiting to be collected by the recycling wagon, the cards are on their way to help the Woodland Trust campaign, the decorations are back in their boxes. So that's it for another year. And we're all back in the office (full of assorted colds & lurgies but no winter sickness (fingers crossed)) and whilst not exactly bright eyed and bushy tailed we're ready to go – once we've waded through nigh on a thousand emails….

Several ads already online to get you started and a rather large CJS Monthly waiting in the wings.